Kiko
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About Kiko goats
The Kiko was developed in New Zealand in the 1980s from feral goats crossed with dairy bucks, and it was selected on a single brutal criterion: survival with minimal input. Animals that needed help were culled.
What that produced is a large white meat goat that is notably parasite resistant, hard hooved, and able to raise kids on rough browse without drenching or trimming. Kiko is the Maori word for flesh.
They are the usual answer where Boers struggle, which is wet country with high worm pressure and any operation trying to reduce chemical inputs.
The trade is conformation and finish. A Kiko does not carry the muscling of a Boer and will not hang as heavy or as blocky a carcass, so at a sale ring judged on appearance they place lower, and many producers run them as the doe base with a Boer buck on top.
Sourced from The Livestock Conservancy and the breed’s registry, reviewed by HoofnHorn.
No Kiko goats at auction right now.
Heritage breeds come up in ones and twos, so this is normal. We will email you the moment a Kiko is listed.