EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT FAINTING GOATS
(but didn’t know who to ask) By Diane Willhite, ATFGA Pres.
From Homesteader’s Connection September/October 1997
….Fainting Goats are a multi-purpose animal. Excellent for brush control, they survive well on browse with little supplementary feeding. They are very hardy, and disease resistant.
The Fainting Goat is a very prolific animal, often kidding with twins, triplets, quads, or more. Easy kidders and good mothers, they cycle year round for the possibility of 2 kiddings per year.
Fainting Goats are a very muscular animal, and their muscles are well developed, resulting in a very meaty carcass that makes excellent eating. They are very easy to handle, and the muscling in their hindquarters causes them to carry much more meat in their hindquarters than other breeds of goats. Dr. Lou Nuti, a prominent goat research scientist at Prairie View A &M University, has been quoted as saying “The Tennessee Fainting Goat/Boer Goat cross is the slaughter animal that the meat goat industry has been searching for.”