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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> So crossing a Boer with a milk goat will give a better meat goat than a
> strict dairy goat, it's still probably not going to prove to be a reliable 
> meat
> source.
>
> If you knew for a fact that you were going to eat the offspring, maybe.  But
> the prospects of raising up replacement does, or does for sale, IMO outweighs
> the benefits of intentionally crossing the two types of goats.

Well, I just needed to breed the Alpine-Nubian X does and #17 my Boer
buck was the only candidate for the job :>)

I figure that eating the offspring will be better and if these girls
milk OK, I can get a Nubian buck to do the job next year.

Rob - Va