Reliability
When you buy a goat from Kabulya Goat Trading, you can be sure of what it is that
you are buying. We will check that the mother is what the breeder claims and we will
check that it was mated to the claimed father. We will also examine the young goat
to see that the colour etc are consistent with the reported parentage. Only then
will it be accepted for sale.
Sustainable sales
Before they were able to get milk from their goats, the main purpose that smallholders
kept goats was as a kind of bank. Their crops generated wealth, and the goats stored
it in a form that made it easy to mobilise. That culture has not changed much among
keepers of dairy goats. This has resulted in the failure of many breeding projects,
when too many crossbred goats are sold at the same time. As well as being concerned
about individual farmers, we are keep an eye on the overall breeding programme. That
means working with the breeders groups so that they get big enough to meet demand,
and encouraging placing a high value on retaining quality breeding stock.
Selling breeding stock is a wonderful opportunity for the farmers that we source
our goats from. But we know that it is possible to breed even better goats in the
future. Our training programme and our pricing structure are deliberately planned
to maximise the incentive for the farmers to participate in selective breeding. Building
long-