𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 (𝗕𝗢𝗘𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗔𝗧) 𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗠

Boer goat, the broiler of the goats.

On the back of a debate happening between Hopewell and others on goat breeding on X, how many know that the biggest and most valuable cattle herds in Africa are in Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia, and Uganda? Their cattle, on average, are about $1200 for a normal animal, without talking about the breeding pedigrees.

Sudan has 32 million cattle valued at nothing less than $38 billion in a population of 16 million people. The premium price of the Sudanese herd, debunks the false notion that breeding the derivatives of a pure breed (a hybrid or broiler) is better business that breeding the pure breed.

In 1960, when they got independence, their herd was the same as Zimbabwe's (then Rhodesia), at 2 million. But now they have 32 million, while Zimbabwe only has 5.6 million in a population of 16 million people, and South Africa has 13 million in a population of 63 million. Keep following; we are going somewhere.

Do you know why their cattle cost more and why they breed and multiply better than the hybrid herds we have in Southern Africa? It's because the Sudanese and other countries I mention above stuck to original cattle breeds that have adapted over many years to be more resistant to disease without chemicals and vaccines.

They did not hybridize with Asian and European breeds, as the colonized Southern Africans, who worship everything done by Europeans, did, and so their cattle are more adapted, resistant to diseases and drought than ours, hence they multiply more.

Even the US Department of Trade wrote an entire report on how successful Sudan has been in breeding the biggest cattle herd per capita in the world without vaccines and medicines. Today, pure Mashona cattle with traceable genetic lines cost, on average, more than the hybrids we have been cross-breeding with in Southern Africa, because they are hardier. Now, the biggest single pedigree herd of Mashona is in Texas because of Africans who have no pride in what is theirs.

So, are these goat hybrids, like the Boer goat, really smart business, or destruction of our herd hardiness in the long term? Boer goats are renowned for being weak, susceptible to disease, and requiring special care, vaccines, and medication because they lack robustness and adaptability. So, they are good business for Western pharmaceutical companies that sell the medication for these weak creatures, but they are not good for genetic improvement or breeding.

Need I remind you that hybrids, by nature, grow faster but this makes them weaker, less virile, and they have lower nutrition (as much as 80% less than a pure breed) hence less intense taste too? This is why broilers are weak and require special care and to be put in very sanitized, built-up industrial concentrated feedlots where they are over-medicated. The Boer goat is the broiler of goats.