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I. B. Stewart
KwaZulu-Natal Dept. Of Agriculture, P Bag X9059, Pietermaritzburg, 3200
Email: stewarti@cedara.kzntl.gov.za
KwaZulu Natal has a goat population of 1,000,000 goats almost all of which are in the communal areas.
However, very little is known about these goats. In consultation with researchers in the Farmers Systems Research
Section at Cedara, it was established that the small-scale farmers??? problems relating to their goats are the
abundance of worms and the poor fecundity of the goats. The people have little or no money for worm remedies
and the poor nutrition available in the overcrowded areas no doubt is the major cause of poor productivity. From a
broader standpoint, considering the extensive soil erosion of the areas in question, it was hypothesised that if
kikuyu could be established in an effort to halt the loss of soil from the farms, then an added incentive would be to
raise goats on these kikuyu pastures. It is thus the intention of this goat research to establish the productivity of
indigenous Zulu goats on kikuyu, employing the same management principles used by the subsistence farmers.
At the start of the investigation, there were 15 female Saanen x Zulu goats and kids. The cross-bred rams
were replaced by a pure-bred Zulu ram from Impendhle. An area of 2.5 ha of kikuyu was completely fenced with a
two metre bonnox fence and then divided into five equal sized camps with four strands of barbed wire. Thus the
goats are confined within the 2.5 ha camp but can wander freely through all the camps. The goats are kraaled at
night, but go out to graze every day, as is the practice in the rural areas. Similarly, the ram runs with the flock all
the time, there being no management system used that would separate any goats into groups. Besides the grass, the
goats are given access to a high calcium mineral lick. The goats are weighed once a week and any births or deaths
are recorded. During the winter they are combed for cashmere, and a programme of slaughtering for meat has just
begun, but both subjects will be topics reported at a future congress. In the two-year period being reported, they
have been dewormed three times, the criterion for this being loose dung in a few of the animals. The pastures are
top-dressed with 200kg nitrogen/annum and consist of 5 x 0.5 ha camps. During the summer when the grass is
actively growing, a herd of 20 yearling cattle graze the pasture on a rotational basis, moving once a week.
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Seriously though, I miss those days.
I mean, we don't, but I'm just sayin'...