Welcome to BRC Boers- our BRC Boers & CSA facebook page is the best place to go for updated information and photos. On just about any given day during the spring and summer months we have people stopping on the dirt road that passes in front of us to watch the goat herd in the fields. They are a beautiful addition to the the scenery.
Please use the photo links on the right to access different pages.
Also introducing our newest herdsire RNSH Tommy JR bred by Richard and Sandy Norman, www.boergoats4richardsandy.com, a top show herd in the PNW. Tommy JR is sired by our Tommy and out of their amazing and Ennobled doe Valentine. He is the BEST buckling I have ever seen in photos or at any show or farm. He has a massive front and back, smooth lines, big boned, square and wide with a huge heart girth/barrel and a picture perfect head, roman nose and horn set. We are so incredibly LUCKY to have RNSH Tommy JR breeding here and plan on taking advantage of breeding the best boer goats we have ever bred.
BRC stands for Big Rock Candy and you will find our goats registered with variations of BRC, Big Rock and BRCM in the USBGA and ABGA.
We pride ourselves on our hardy trouble free Boer stock with excellent instinct for mothering and easy kidding. Boers are the largest and meatiest of the meat goat breed and they don't scimp in the taste department either. Boer is akin in taste to pastured veal and it is the healthiest of all red meats. Boer means literally "farmer" so they need to be farmer goats and around here they are. Every morning we let them out with the advice 'Make good choices and go earn a living' . They do a good job of it.
In 2003 we began a strict culling program to enhance the best instincts of mothering and we've never regretted it. We enjoy a mostly easy kidding season, only occasionally losing kids to bad weather or the off chance of a breech birth.
We reccomend testing for Johnes, CL and CAE. Any purchased breeding stock animal will be tested before actual removal from our herd for our protection and yours. We may also begin a reccomendation to start testing for Q fever. Testing for diseases is inexpensive security to start your herd or keep your herd safe. Testing for CAE and CL is good but we reccomend doing that extra couple of steps to ensure a long lasting healthy herd.
Our philosophy for our goats is like the philosophy we have for all of the other things we do around here. This is why we do not choose to feed low dose antibiotic's like rumensin/monensin for growth enhancement. Feeds containing rumensin/monensin are intended to be used during times of stress induced coccidios or during an outbreak. Low dosing antibiotics will make your animal more competitive in the show ring. It will not change the genetic potential of the animal or the progeny of the animals and is not a signifier of true weight gain potential of the genetics of a herd or single animal. Fed to meat animals it can help create antibiotic resistant bacteria that if not cooked thoroughly can make people ill and difficult to treat . Antibiotics are wonderful tools to use in the time of illness but NOT as a feed supplement. Instead we choose a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle for our animals so that they will be able to fight off microbials and viruses instead of harboring them.. See the links attached to this page onlLow dosing and it's effects long and short term below. There are literally thousands of documents, blogs, magazine and newspaper articles, etc on Low Dosing. These are just a small amount. I have never found one scientific paper or other paper or blog or article that promotes the use of low dose antibiotics in livestock feed for the health of the consumer.
If you've known us for a while you know we also have a crazy penchant for colored boers. So go see the goats already!!!!
