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Oberhasli goats for sale?
buglebuster:
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:yeah: Hopefully your packers are wethers, cause them boys don’t have much ground clearance :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Disclaimer, I don’t raise pack goats 🤣
actionshooter:
--- Quote from: LDennis24 on November 17, 2023, 02:21:41 PM ---I asked him why he chose Oberhaslis. He says they are quieter than other breeds and have more try from what he has heard.
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Obers have the most heart... I believe their demeaner means a lot... they are a little smaller generally, I have Obers and Alpines and my best lead was an Ober. It's kind of personal preference but atthe end of the day, there isn't a huge difference.
I don't know Linda in Moses, but have heard of her quality goats.
actionshooter:
--- Quote from: bachto on November 17, 2023, 10:23:32 AM ---Not Obers but a guy in Benton City sells Alpines for packing. Trinity pack goats, i've been to his outfit before. Also is there a reason he just wants obers? I have 2 ober crosses and I think they are on the small size. My alpines and lamancha crosses are much bigger.
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Last I heard Dave at Trinity was selling all of his goats to Mark Warnke.... I have 3 from Dave and wanted more and was told no last year.
YellowDog:
Obers are a great breed. They are not typically as tall as Alpine or LaManchas but there are some ober lines that are taller. Obers do have great personalities and make excellent packgoats. Linda Berens in Moses Lake has really nice obers and is who I would go to if I was looking for pure obers.
The guy in my post above is 1/2 ober, 1/4 LaMancha, 1/4 Boer and is not quite 18 months old in that photo. He was about 34" tall and 204 lbs i (on a livestock scale) n yhat photo. I prefer packgoats that are a mix of breeds with hier percentages of Alpine, Ober, or LaMancha mixed with smaller percentages of Saanen and Boer mixed in.
I have 24 goats total with all kinds of mixes and none of them are noisy. Nubians are known for being noisy. All goats are potentially noisy but even the ones I have that scream only do it at feeding time and they have all grown out of that by one year of age.
The gray and black goat below is pure Alpine, 1 month younger than the brown one pictured above. He is about an inch shorter and 25 lbs (he's about 225 now) lighter than the ober, lamancha, Boer cross.
The two pictured below are twin brothers sired by the ober, lamancha Boer buck crossed with my favorite doe who is 5/8 Alpine, 1/4 ober, 1/8 Boer. Those two are 16 months old in the photo.
YellowDog:
Here is my biggest doe, an Alpine/Saanen cross (205 lbs) and one of her 6 day old kids and that kid at 6 months old weighing 106 lbs. His color changed a lot which is very common.
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