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CBC is a southeastern Boer goat breeder. We have experienced what raising
goats in the southeast is like. Plenty of Rainfall, high temperatures and
bitter winter damp cold. We are breeding goats for seed stock and show.
They must be structurally correct, free from cull fault, and hardy in the
face of challenge to parasites and wet pastures. We work our goats
frequently and live in the middle of them. We save only 5 – 10 % of males
as intact breeder candidates. Our animals are intended for pure line seed
stock buyers, show folks and increasingly for market wether goat
candidates. We have increased our selection pressure towards a firm and
thick muscle type of animal on the male line side and towards frame size
and femininity and style on the female line side. Terminal crosses made
with our male and female lines are winning in stiff club goat competition
in Texas and now other parts of the country.
Our female lines come from Texans: N & K Ranches, Inc., Morriss Ranch and
Dirk Louw of Namibia/South Africa, Braam Maritz, Pip Niewoudt, and Amani
Boer Goat Stud in Australia. We are concentrating heavily on the Dirk
Louw lines in the male line side now as they are contributing extreme
muscle thickness and muscle definition.
Hard Muscle and Round Muscle bundles are what make muscle definition.
Flat plates of muscle bundles can be found on every street. This is the
norm. We are moving rapidly towards hard definition.
In 2002 we bred one of the best males CBCN110 from the original Australian
/South African importation from the year before to some of the Texas
female lines. CBCN110 is long necked, long bodies and very stylish. We
sent two of his sons to Texas as show wethers and they have won a lot. L
and L Farms in Edinburg and Hallettsville, Texas sent one to the ring 27
times for 21 wins in his class at Texas – San Antonio. They called him
“Little George” The next year another son of N110 went to Jim and Ruby
Lambert and their grandson Kyle and he was better yet suffered an
accidental death. Jim came east to visit us and because of what CBCN110
was doing for him, took him home for his wether sire.
CBCN110 was also bred to some full Aussie/South African female lines to
provide daughters for the next steps. CBC Freightrain and CBC Wetherman.
Examples are impact that two Dirk Louw males made for us in 2003. CBC
Feightrain is pure Louw. He has the thickest rack, and line I have felt
in several years. He is long and thick-rumped. Inside twist muscle and
out twist muscle are excellent with good definition. Our 2002 born body
builder. Great temperament typical of most Dirk Louw animals. I
discussed this with Dirk at the last World Championships I attended. We
hardly trimmed his feet during the first 15 months, because he struck the
ground so correctly. He now lives in Ohio with a friend and client,
Albright Boer Goats. Go see him.
The other male that propelled us forward with hard muscle is CBC
Wetherman. Another Dirk Louw male, he’s a Georgia Cracker to this day.
And sired our futurity buck of 2003. He is very complete and balanced and
without fault. Good natured like CBC Freightrain. We are now working with
combining the Freightrain line with his line. What an “easy keeper” he
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