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Welcome to Our Ranch |
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We hope all those babies
from Alazan grow up to make
their daddy proud!
Our
Ranch
We are John and Cathie
Keblinger and advertise
under the name
Seven A+ Boers
because 7A+ is our brand. We
live 40 miles northwest of
Kerrville, Texas, on Highway
41, on the ranch Cathie’s
grandfather homesteaded in
1896, across the road from
The Divide School. You’re
always welcome to visit us.
Just call first to make sure
we’re home!
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101 Years of Goats on this Hill |
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The
year 2003 was the centennial of Old Billy's
arrival on this ranch. He was an Angora goat
imported from Turkey by my grandfather who must
have had an arduous trip over the hills and down
the canyons to bring him back from a sale held
on the Nueces River, in Campwood, Texas. Old
Billy was the first Angora billy in Kerr County
and was so famous that the leading banker in
Kerrville asked Daddy Fred if he could have the
body stuffed after Old Billy died. Old
Billy stood on display in the Charles Schreiner
bank lobby for at least 50 years, and we are
proud to still have Old Billy's trough made out
of rocks cemented onto a flat rock. |
In the picture to the right, Fred B. Klein
is holding Old Billy with his dramatically
long white ringlets of mohair in the pen
that he made out of cedar posts so the
wolves couldn't get in to the goats and
the goats couldn't get out until he wanted
them to.
The other picture is of some nannies
recently sheared with hand shears. They
were the result of several crosses of Old
Billy on the native meat goats which were
the nannies he had to build his
mohair-producing herd on. The long haired
goats were such a curiosity all the
visitors to the F.B. Klein ranch wanted
their pictures taken with them. |
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Our Boer
Goats |
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We have been raising Boer Goats since
1993 and have been striving continuously
to build up our herd with the very best
Boers we can find. From the first we
have been focusing on wide goats with
heavy back ends, level backs and good
length of loin. Since we have been using
embryo transfer, it has been practical
to invest big money in a few outstanding
nannies because each one can produce a
large number of offspring. We agree with
those big breeders who base their herd
on a few outstanding foundation nannies,
and work in outside blood lines by going
through those nannies. Our foundation
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When the Codi - PCI quarantine goats became available we started buying them and are still line-breeding from those bloodlines. Kaptein and Tsjaka are the original PCI herd sires whose descendants make up most of the foundation goats in our herd.
Read
more about our Boer Goats
here |
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