Boer goat belongs to non-seasonal breeding stock and is in estrus all the year round. The ewe has reproductive ability at 6 months, and the peak of sexual activity is in autumn, when the reproductive rate is relatively high.
The estrus cycle of Boer goat is 2 1d and lasts for 37 hours. The gestation period is about 147 ~ 149 d, and the ram is sexually mature for 6 months. Under grazing conditions, each ram can breed 15 ewes on average. At the age of 9 months, the average mating amount of rams will increase by 1 fold.
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Boer goat is recognized as an excellent meat variety in the world, which has the excellent characteristics of large size, rapid initial growth, wide adaptability, good reproductive performance and high meat yield.
Because the original seed of Boer goat was imported from abroad in the early stage, the relative price is relatively high, which leads to the relatively high price of the original seed and purebred introduced back to China for breeding.
For farmers, the following ways are initially put into moderate small-scale operation, and the idea of rolling development while producing is adopted to gradually build small-scale breeding sheep that radiates around.