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WHAT  ARE   TENNESSEE   MEAT  GOATS™?

In the early 1990's, Suzanne W. Gasparotto, owner of Onion Creek Ranch in Texas,    trademarked   as   Tennessee Meat Goats™   those goats from  the Myotonic breed that she developed at Onion Creek Ranch that  are   heavily muscled,  wide and deep bodied, larger framed than typical Myotonic goats, and produce  a   4 to 1 meat-to-bone ratio.   Higher meat-to-bone ratio means more MEAT, less waste, and more dollars in producers' pockets.

Linebreeding was avoided, because linebreeding results in the loss of both meat and hardiness.     No dairy-goat genetics were used to develop the Tennessee Meat Goat™.  Only those animals who meet the criteria developed by  Suzanne Gasparotto at  Onion Creek Ranch can be identified as  Tennessee Meat Goats™.

All fullblood Tennessee Meat Goats™ are Myotonic, but few Myotonics can qualify to be called Tennessee Meat Goats™.

Most  Myotonic goats are small to medium-sized and seldom achieve more than 100 pounds mature weight. Some are muscled, but many of them are not. Many  are pet-quality  not intended  for meat production.

There are two long-established full-time working goat ranches from which you should  buy  genuine certified Tennessee Meat Goat™ genetics:    Suzanne W. Gasparotto at Onion Creek Ranch in Texas and Pat Cotten at Bending Tree Ranch in Arkansas.    It is the  unfortunate truth that  no other producers have the longevity and experience with this breed that Suzanne and Pat have.

Onion Creek Ranch  and Bending Tree Ranch offer  heavily-muscled, excellent conformation breeding stock goats at affordable prices.  These   fullblood Tennessee Meat Goats™  are playing a significant role in putting MEAT into  the American MEAT goat industry.      With their 4:1 meat-to-bone ratio, Tennessee Meat Goats™ produce more useable meat  on other-breed does' offspring .

Shipping is available at the buyer's expense.   Truck/trailer  transport is offered by several livestock haulers whose names can be provided  for you to contact to  make shipping  arrangements.  You may also check with  fellow goat raisers or  goat groups about haulers currently in operation.

For information and pricing on Tennessee Meat Goats™, contact  Suzanne W. Gasparotto at Onion Creek Ranch in Texas at onioncrk@centex.net  or call 512 265 2090,  or Pat Cotten at Bending Tree Ranch in Arkansas by private messenger at Bending Tree Ranch on Facebook.

If it has MEAT on it, it has MYOTONIC in it.                        9.1.22

WHAT  ARE  TEXMASTER™   MEAT  GOATS?
The Superior Commercial Meat Goat Breed

After I imported a trio of Boers from New Zealand in the early 1990's, I began to wonder why people were so excited about Boers as "meat" goats.   My Myotonics had far more meat on them, were much easier to manage,  kidded easily,  and cost less  to feed.   I asked myself this question:  Why can't I take the more heavily muscled fullblood Myotonic bucks that I  trademarked  as Tennessee Meat Goats™, breed them to Boer does, and begin  the development of a new meat  goat breed that puts  more MEAT on the offspring (coming from the TMG sires) and with a bit faster growth rate and frame size (contributed by the Boer females)?   So in  1994, I began the multi-year  process of creating the superior  commercial meat goat breed that I trademarked as TexMaster™.

A minimum of seven generations of breeding is required to produce animals that breed "true."  Breeding "true" means that breeding pairs reproduce offspring with consistent characteristics, i.e. they produce traits that  replicate themselves from goat to goat  with enough consistency of conformation to be called a  BREED.   This is the  definition of a BREED.  I have been  producing TexMasters™ for over 25  years.  That's a lot of breedings and cullings.