Even as we strive to breed the more perfect Boer Goat in its traditional form, there are those who would like to be somewhat creative in their breeding programs. Thus, so many of you have taken the next step and introduced the red and paints, also known as the "colored Boers," in to your flocks.

It did not seem to be important either way on these colored Boers until we decided to keep an excellent paint buck that came from breeding a Venter buck to a Venter cross doe. We had around the same time produced a paint do from the Madiba line and decided to mate these two for an ET program. The doe "Roulette" flused 39 embryos, of which 38 were fertile. We sonogrammed 25 and eventually got 21 live kids and a surprise as well. The vet had left 2 fertile embryos in Roulette and she kidded two handsome bucks.

We have been truly fortunate to have had so many exquisite percentage does that have won many, many championships for T4 Ranh and other Boer goat studs as well. Our latest accomplishment: We took two yearling percentage does to the 2002 ABGA Nationals and they placed third and seventh in their class and went on to win the Best Pair Senior Percentage Does.

We hope by applying the same cull and select methods with these "colored Boers" we shall be able to offer to our customers the very same quality we have been able to do in the past with the traditional Boer goats.