Mountain Valley Cattle & Kiko Goat Ranch

Mountain Valley Cattle & Kiko Goat Ranch Kiko Goats and Mini Hereford Cattle

I could spend hours watching the kids play. I know our guard dogs do.
03/04/2025

I could spend hours watching the kids play. I know our guard dogs do.

03/04/2025

Kid goat doing what they can do best....play and anoy our cattle. Got to love them.

Baby goats everywhere! We have had 80 so far this 2025 kidding session!
03/04/2025

Baby goats everywhere! We have had 80 so far this 2025 kidding session!

Our cattle coming to eat
03/04/2025

Our cattle coming to eat

02/13/2025

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Thinking about selling my entire miniature Hereford Herd. I have 20 head. All the mama's are 7 to 8 months pregnant exce...
02/10/2025

Thinking about selling my entire miniature Hereford Herd. I have 20 head. All the mama's are 7 to 8 months pregnant except 2 mama's have babies at there side. If interested text me at 210 831 9586.

Took my mom to our church's Easter Picnic at Bell Park Greenwood.
03/28/2024

Took my mom to our church's Easter Picnic at Bell Park Greenwood.

07/05/2022

Goats On The Go has partnered Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Co. Helping them can up their right-of-ways with my hungry 4-legged w**d eaters.

Grooming these goats for Goats On The Go Targeted Grazing
12/22/2021

Grooming these goats for Goats On The Go Targeted Grazing

11/26/2021
04/10/2020

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Kiko Goat Operation

Andy and Hedwig, is in the process of expanded their ranch operation to having 300 Kiko Goats. The Kiko is a breed of meat goat from New Zealand.[1] Kiko is the Māori word for flesh or meat.[2] The Kiko breed was created in the 1980s by Garrick and Anne Batten, who cross-bred local feral goats with imported dairy goat bucks of the Anglo-Nubian, Saanen, and Toggenburg breeds. The breeding aims were hardiness, fast growth, parasite resistance, and survivability with little input from the producer.[3]

The Kiko breed was imported into the US in 1992 by Goatex Group LLC.[4] Today, three registries are in the US for Kikos: the AKGA, the IKGA, and the NKR (which is the largest of the three). Kikos can be registered as 100% New Zealand, meaning that their lineage can be traced all the way back to the original New Zealand stock.[5] "Purebreds" are animals that are at least 15/16ths New Zealand stock[5] and "percentages" are those that are at least 50% New Zealand stock.[5] Kikos-Boer crosses can also be registered as Genemaster™ with the NKR.

The Kiko breed continues to grow in popularity particularly in the warm, wet US southern states where drug-resistant parasites have wreaked havoc on southern herds.[6] The Kiko shows a natural parasite resistance that allows it to thrive in climates where other goats do not. The Kiko breed, coming from a dairy background, is also proving valuable to southern dairy herds in providing parasite resistant dual-purpose dairy and meat offspring.[7]