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Welcome to Uphoffs Boer Goats Web Site
Uphoff Boer Goats began in 1998 when we saw the meat goat market developing at Lexington, NE. Our first buck, the only one we could find within a 100 mile radius of Lexington was "Andy" a
black and white paint 1/2 Boer, 1/2 LaMancha. We still have one of his daughters, Little Red, producing in our commercial herd. After Andy came Hank, our first fullblood registered buck purchased from Donald
and Rita Johnston of Grover, CO.
We now keep from 8 to 10 fullblood bucks and use
them in our breeding program and lease some of them to other breeders to improve their herds. We offer registered fullblood and percentage nannies, commercial nannies and dairy nannies to
breeders who have goats and to those just starting in the goat business. We pride ourselves in our post-sale support of new and existing breeders, keeping them abreast of new developments in the meat goat industry
and helping them through health problems that occur from time to time. We tell our customers, "When you buy our goats, you also buy us".
Our bucks include: Texas Warrior purchased from Coni Ross of Blanco, TX. Bucks that we have raised include Uphoff's Easter Egg, a Polky Dot son of
Sonora Redneck, and our newest addition, Dunroamin Cayenne purchased in July 2009 from the Wessons in Arkansas.
Our fullblood and percentage nannies are mostly of our own raising with
a few purchased from Coni Ross and Troy Powell.
As we have matured along with the meat goat industry we have seen an increasing need for bucks that will go into commercial and registered herds
and increase their weaning weights. So, we are concentrating our efforts in producing this type of buck for our customers. We produced the high
indexing buck in the first ever Nebraska Range Buck Test held May through October of 2009. He is a son of Easter Egg and his picture is on our For Sale page.
You will notice that we list each goat's weaning weight in it's description on our For Sale page. One of our goals is to wean some 100 pound billy
kids at 90 days of age and nanny kids at 90 pounds at 120 days.
The meat goat industry is the fastest growing and one of the most profitable of all agricultural entities. One of the most quotable quotes
we've heard about this segment of agriculture came from a County Extension Educator who said, "When you add meat goats to your operation
you don't have to take anything else away. If you're raising corn and decide to start raising soybeans you have to raise less corn, but, if you
add meat goats you don't have to take anything else out." Meat goats can be a great project for a stay at home mom or youngsters in a family. Many
commercial goat operations have grown into a very profitable entity from a few goats that were purchased for 4H projects for the children in the family
. Another positive note about the future of the meat goat industry came from another government official who said, "Everyone moving into the
United States are goat meat eaters." So the future remains bright for serious meat goat breeders.
At Uphoff's we want to help our present and future customers increase
their profits through the purchase of our breeding bucks and does. To assist our customers to gain their goals in the meat goat industry we provide support in the management area of their goats. We thank you for
visiting our web site and hope we can be of service to you sometime soon.
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