'Accidental' goat farmers pioneer new model for domestic premium meat market 🐐 🍖 🌿 | ABC Australia

Goats have always been under appreciated. They are incredible animals. Glad you are aware of the qualities the feral animals bring to the equation. Don't forget to thank the forward thinking people who brought the Boer goat to Australia. In the past there has been much suffering endured by goats being shipped live for export. The shorter the distance to the abbatoir the better. The farmers in this success story seem to have good heads on their shoulders.

This is so inspirational for us in africa. Especially in uganda with good climate and shrubs. Let me follow this to minute detail to enable me expand on goats too. I have been doing sheep only

I raise boer goats in Wisconsin lol USA and this is such an amazing thing to see I thought I had a big herd of 300 30,000 i cant imagine especially during kidding season oh boy your looking at 60,000 kids jeez

Any urbanite who considers farmers to be ignorant peasants is a fool. Independent farmers, regardless of which nation, have to be smart and adaptive to survive.

Hugh Fearnley Whittinstall's Caribbean Curry Goat is amazing. I'm incredibly fortunate to have a butcher near me that has goat meat.

Love it. In my childhood days is South-Africa, I already learned about goat meat and love it. WELL DONE & all the best for the future. Kind regards from New Zealand.

Thank you Ms. Pip Courtney of Landline & ABC Australia for the inspiring story of the under rated goat raising & farming. Is landline able to run a story on goat milk and making of goat cheese production on farms in Australia please? I will be getting in touch with Mr. Brian Allport soon for export of some better genetic, cross stud, meat breed goats for export/import into Madang, Papua New Guinea.

30000 goats ? Waoo. Unbelievable. Well done to both. Raising some goats here in Nagaland.

Delighted to see that South African goats are being used to improve the genetics of the feral goats. Well done to the Allports!

Bloody brilliant and what a great protein Goat is, so good to see this development

Called grasslands haha but no a bit of grass in sight

For those of you that don't know in a country where goats run feral, it's no problem to fill in order of a thousand every week

Amazing Australian story!

Australians should realise they are not in Europe anymore. Ship and cattle arent the best match for much of the Australian landscape. Thats why every other year farmers are crying over losses due to the drought. Look what is thriving here... Goat and Camel. They have huge international demand and thrive on neglect. Bullet-proof animals that heat and drought dont bother them and feel very much at home in outback Australia. Not only that we could learn to eat them. Goats are in my opinion even better than lamb and camel is not much different than cattle. Remember we are a nation that convinced ourselves to eat "Vegemite"!

Thanks landline nice story.

I’m Jamaican living in US and I love some Australian goat meat

A very lean meat supplier, great and well done to both of you

They are a loss in the east coast of USA. We have 30% moisture in the air and very wet winters. Their feet rot out very quickly and they die from disease in humid environments very quickly. I still keep goats for getting rid of poison oak, poison ivy, and the weeds that chiggers and ticks climb up. 10 years and I have never made a profit off of them, but in that 10 years I have never gotten into chiggers and have only found 1 tick on me.

Excellent... Congratulations Greetings from Philippines ❤❤❤❤🙏

if you find goat meat to be little bit tougher than cook in in the pressure cooker or ground it and make burgers and sausages :)