Breeds of Beef Cattle in Australia Kalahari Red
The Kalahari Red is a newcomer on the caprine animal breeding scene.
Goat breeders endeavour Kalahari Reds
Reporter: Jane Cochran
Starting time Published: x/12/2000
Non so long agone Australia had millions and millions of feral goats and they were seen every bit pests. Now they are beingness farmed and cross-bred with imported stud goats.
There have been successful cross convenance programs with ferals and African breeds, such as, the Red Boer, the African Boer and the Nubians.
Now there's a new breed of goat generating quite a lot of involvement and it is barely been on Commonwealth of australia's shores a year.
The Kalahari Red is known every bit the feral of South Africa and has barely been on the ground a year.
It is hoped that this goat will add to the productiveness of our industry as it is suited to the semi-desert and arid conditions.
The Kalahari reddish has a number of qualities that lend itself the Australian terrain such equally its colour, that acts as a camouflage from predators such as eagles and dingos, its productiveness but about chiefly its hardiness. It seems to thrive in harsher weather condition where about other breeds won't.
The President of the Kalahari Reddish Association of South Africa, Albie Horn, was out here recently to promote the goat, and seemed to generate quite a lot of interest.
Over the years Wallace Kier has heard all that advice nigh working with kids and animals.... and happily ignored it ....
The retired schoolhouse instructor still has a big following with the kids....peculiarly at petty lunch...
"About xiii years ago I was down at the Beaudesert show and a guy chosen Peter Ross from Uki in Northern NSW bought some Neubeans, long ears and arrogant noses and pretty colours and I thought I could accept them around the place so I started off with Neubeans and I've had them since '83/'84. From there I got some boers, similar half of Australia did, and then having all of these goats I decided to get the real one...and I got the Kalahari reds," caprine animal farmer, Wallace Kier said.
Similar the Neubeans and the Boers the Kalahari'due south are an African goat, bred for their meat.
As the name suggests they are at home in some of Southern Africas most inhospitable terrain.
"We selected them from our indigenous goats, they were mainly of blood-red and white colour and some of them black and white, some of the solid reds and so we select them for their colours and their very important qualities", Albi Horn, President of the Kalahari Red Clan said.
They have sure qualities that lend themselves to Australia's semi-desert and barren weather such as their good mothering abilities, their productiveness merely nigh importantly their hardiness .
Traits of form which they have in mutual with Australia'due south feral goats.
Once considered the scourge of the rangelands .......only now the ground of a quickly expanding....consign orientated goat meat manufacture....
"Australia is in a unique position; we are actually exporting close to seventy pct of the world'south export goat meat. It's increasing, the figures for the concluding 6 months have seen usa put 82% of caprine animal meat into the United states of their imported goat meat, and really its but near that much, it'south less than 2 % of the world'south consumption when you have places like China and Pakistan with about 250 mn goats each they are consuming more than they are producing. Our population has around three million goats.
I don't believe the goat numbers are still increasing while we are still harvesting goats in the wild. Our numbers won't start increasing until we accept more than goats behind the wire and produce the 51 % of the slaughter would exist domesticated farm goats," Barry Ryan, Chairman of the Ausgoat Co-op said.
"They fit in very well with the goat meat industry but at several thousand dollars for 50kg - 40kg meat is pretty expensive. Now I see that the role of these goats of making a noticeable touch on the caprine animal manufacture being crossed with the feral specially the people who are in the harsh land as they need a harsh feral quality being maintained," Wallace Kier said.
Thats what brought South Africa'southward Kalahari Red Assocation President Albi Horn and his goats to Australia.
"My whole purpose for bringing then is that I accept done a flake of studying on your country and on your goat farming. And there's quite a lot of commercial travel breeders. I idea it would exist good for feral breeders because in South Africa or in the world these goats are really referred to every bit the feral of S Africa. They've got the same qualitites as your ferals, adept teeth, adept mothers they are a bit bigger and taller so I thought it would be adept for your feral farmers to use this creature, give them a uniform colour carcass mass with all its qualities loke the camoflauge and the hardiness and everything," Albi Horn said.
Wallace had already been convinced that it made a lot of sense to ship his goat operation into the cherry-red.
"I had been lead to believe that the red boer bucks over crimson boer does gives you a smaller animal, not good plenty for my ladies and EDIT so from there I found out the wonderful qualities of the Kalahari'due south and they arrived in embryo'southward and were implanted on the ninth of July last twelvemonth and these are the pure bred Kalahari's you come across today," Wallace Kier said.
They are about a year old now and Albi Horn is pretty happy with what he sees.
"She is i of the all-time does in the herd, she'southward got proficient goat meat conformation, good growth, yes she'southward very nice," Mr Horn said.
The anecdotal show is that goats can be easier on stressed country than sheep and are low maintenance animals .
" Actually these goats are very suitable for producing organic meat. Organic means no hormones, no medicine, no antibiotics. Because of these animals hardiness, they demand to exist inoculated far less, so the meat is very much suited for organic meat. Which as people go more than health conscious, organic meat becomes very healthy," Albi Horn said.
Peter Firth was one of the start in Australia to see the value of diversifying his business into goats on a big scale ..... just over xx years ago .
The Firths now run about ten thousand goats on properties in Queensland's south-west .... and they've seen the impact introduced breeds like Boers are having on the goat meat manufacture ...and while he hasn't had much to do with them withal ..... he's optimistic that Kalaharis could take a useful role to play as well .
"I have no dubiousness that the meat manufacture will require some of the attributes that the Kalahari red can give, I think that the climatic conditions in Australia are and so variable that the Kalahari Reds will observe a place and increase meat product in Commonwealth of australia," Peter Firth, long time caprine animal farmer said.
The only direct comparison he tin can make is how this Kalahari cantankerous has handled the prolonged dry spell at his stud on the Darling Downs .
Peter Firth is swell to see how the Kalaharis will handle the tougher going further due west before making any more definitive assessments on them ......until then his focus remains on Boer goats ......which have adaped well beyond a broad range of product areas over the past decade .... due in no small-scale function to the work of this homo ...... Geof- Burnett Smith .
While it's besides early to tell exactly what impact the Kalahari will have on the Australian Caprine animal herd, evidently they haven't been on the footing long enough. Some of the most estute judges in the concern feel that like the African Boer the Kalahari has the potential to significantly increase the quality of the Australian caprine animal meat manufacture. If this sale is any indication the African breeds are thriving in their adopted domicile.
Not and so long ago most of the people at the sale would have had no idea what to look for in terms of stud caprine animal stock , however now virtually of them are stud breeders themselves ...and today they're subsequently some bargins .
This Zimbabwean, Geoff Burnett - Smith, who introduced the African Boer to Commonwealth of australia , and established Terraweena equally the most successful stud goat functioning exterior South Africa ....... is now concentrating on new markets .
"We haven't been able to supply we have been shipping to China for the last iii years, and have been under supplied for each of the shipments. We now have a four year contract to supply them and they are looking for 650 animals in Jan,we'll probably but have about 350 and we'll need to source the balance from other breeders," he said.
I of the most significant steps the industry's undertaken in the past couple of years was establishing AUSGOAT - a co-operative of commercial producers based in Toowoomba ,
"Information technology was formed because there was a few of us hurting growers, cattle producers and wheat growers, nosotros were looking for an culling industry, nosotros decided to enquiry the goat industry, the markets were there, whether viable wether they were sustainable, the only reason we decided to form a co-operative was to be able to volume sell considering none of the markets were interested in taking just a few goats. They needed to be guaranted at a abiding supply so that is why the co-op was built-in and since so it has gone from strength to strength," Barry Ryan, Chairman of the Ausgoat Co-op said.
Among other things the co-op has also put a floor in the market for caprine animal meat ... like beefiness ... the cost for goat in recent times has merely been going i manner .
"The price has been slap-up over the last iii mmonths the figures have shown that we are averaging over $45 per caput dorsum to the producer, that includes GST so its looking pretty skillful, the Taiwonesse market hasn't been every bit strong as we had to compete with the US, the Us market has increased by 30 % over the last few years, so it has more than than doubled over the last few years," Barry Ryan said.
Merely what the business needs at present is sheer numbers .... a lot more commercial growers and a lot more goats for slaughter .
"I'm very optimistic about the future of the Australian caprine animal meat industry. I believe it has tremendous potential to expand throughout Australia, especially in semi - arid atmospheric condition, we do accept a worm problems in highrainfall land and thios is one of the reasons I remember the barren suit them very well. Arid weather with plenty of scan will lead to a goat meat production, which is clean and dark-green, and very few chemicals to produce it," Peter Firth, long fourth dimension goat farmer said.
C ONTACTS
- Barry Ryan, Chairman of Ausgoat Co-op, "Bon Accord", Cambooya, Qld 4358
07 4696 1110 or Fax: 07 4696 1112
- Albi Horn, President of the Kalahari Red Clan, PO Box 3, De Aar 7000, South Africa
Email: albiehorn_@hotmail.com
S ITES
- Kalahari Reds Stud - Albi Horn
- Wallace Kier, Stud Goat Breeder, Jimboomba
07 5546 0413
- Ray Bolwell, Out of Africa Convenance Services
07 5530 3683
- Geof Burnett-Smith, Terraweena Boer Goat Stud
07 4696 2366 Mobile:0417 702 374
PO Box 7081
Toowoomba Mail Centre
QLD 4352
Email: boergoat@ozemail.com.au - Peter Firth, "Springfield", Cambooya 3358, Qld
07 4630 9122 Mobile 0429 309 122
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