111 | Kidding Management: Selection Pressure and Behavior Reshaping, PART 2 of 3

Last week we started this series with the story of how our kidding system evolved — from show goats and January barn kidding through commercial Boers, and then the Spanish goats arriving and refusing to work in the system we'd been running for years. Today is Part 2, and this is where we get into what that shift actually took. How do you move a herd that's been bred for intensive management toward something completely different? What does culling look like when you're selecting for a new system? And how long before you actually see the results? Let's get to it.

 

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110 | Kidding Management: How Our Kidding System Evolved, Part 1 of 3

 

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