Production Project in Andalgalá Cabin New Millennium and Catamarca together to improve goat production
The goat is an animal noted for its hardiness, early maturity, docility and adaptation to the environment, providing both meat and milk, hides and fibers. It's usually the last link utilization predegradadas areas, having always been associated to aridity, overgrazing and erosion. However, sound management, it is possible to obtain significant benefits from their exploitation.
In our country there is goat production, mostly by small farmers with limited resources and low socio-cultural exploited in traditional manner. In Patagonia Angora goat and predominates in the Central, North and Northwest of the country, prevails Creole goats of meat mainly obtained (Kids for slaughter) and milk.
In this context of national goat production, Cabins New Millennium submitted to the Ministry of Productive Project Andalgalá for its completion. In a talk with the director, the veterinarian Charles Shepherd, during the Agricultural Exhibition-Livestock La Rural in Buenos Aires, we collect this information interesting. Here are the procedures, their amazing results and aspirations in the area.
Andalgalá is a department of Catamarca Province, located in northwestern Argentina. It is part of the region west of the province due to their physical and environmental characteristics: hilly area with a harsh climate, and its main activity is mining. As a result of the absence of incentives for the producer, the continued use of Criollo goats and lack of modernization in the rearing and breeding techniques for many years, the goat farm in the region was characterized as purely family. With few commercial producers, without a comprehensive reproductive control of herds and management practices encourage minimum was not achieved in the region of Innsbruck, higher performance and quality improvement of goat production to compete in the market.
Shack New Millennium, in an effort to revalue goat raising in the country and demonstrate their value as meat alternative, presented the Productive Project Goat Breeding Catamarca department, by the veterinarian Charles Shepherd.
After signing an agreement with the Municipality of Andalgalá, different tasks were undertaken to introduce objetivode Boer goat production in the municipality. First we identified the goat farmers in the area whose breeding and rearing systems had not been renewed, the most affected in quality and size of animals. It proposed a system of caravan, never before performed, to recognize cattle. With this system the producer was able to classify their animals, old animals replenish and recover losses, as well as provide data for improving the nutritional and reproductive management.
He also had blood taken to separate those individuals that they had brucellosis , highly contagious zoonotic disease if ingested contaminated food or maintaining a regular contact with livestock, which were sacrificed. The company said the animals so that the producer does not lose reproductive sows. Finally, we came to miscegenation, introduced Boer goats .
In mid-2009 began to birth the new animals and could be seen excellent results, confirming the superiority of the Boer breed. "The results were in sight," said Shepherd, "a four-day animal life of this crossbreeding gave us the size of one of Criollo ten or twelve days." And to complete the feat, got a snow andalgaleños historic "ten straight days of snow, when it is common not last more than 48 hours. And with it came the acid test: a mellizitos born the same day it began to snow, survived the weather, while they did other races in the area, such as Nubia. "
This first stage in which the reproduction was naturally (copies were provided players to the region) actions speak louder than words: the Boer breed adapts to the ground, pasture, temperatures, and profits thrive. The subsistence economy is improving towards a new way of producing goats: animals that were sold for 5/6 kilos now weigh 12 kilos, allowing higher profits. The producer to continue on this path have achieved in some years a pool of pure blood, which will certainly ensure a better position and will open new paths.
"We are planning a more challenging stage for the region, with other techniques to further improve goat production. It is important that New Millennium Cabins has allowed the project: the introduction of a race of high quality and economic value, "concluded Carlos proud.
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