About the Southern Star Boer Goats Operation
Southern Star Enterprises is located north of Brownfield, Texas on US Highway 385. Our primary agriculture ventures are Southern Star Boer Goats and Southern Star Pecans.   I have been involved in the goat industry off and on for approximately twenty five years, raising Spanish goats, then Pygmy goats for several years, before venturing into the world of South African purebred Boer goats. When I made the decision to produce breeding stock, it was a firm decision to do just that. The Southern Star does not raise meat goats, show goats, percentage boers...just 100% registered breeding goats. We eagerly participate in these other facets of the goat industry by selling quality breeding livestock to other goat enthusiasts, to show, sell, or eat. We find goat husbandry interesting and challenging, and find ourselves constantly learning more about these Boers. With our first crop of kids sired by the son of an ennobled doe, my interest immediately turned to producing outstanding does. It seems ironic that the vast majority of Boer goat breeders concentrate on turning out superior bucks, and devote little attention to the does that make up their herd. While we readily admit that a buck is a majestic, noble and important part of our herd, our bucks will always come and go here at the Southern Star as our ultimate goal is to cultivate the ultimate breeder, does that consistantly produce quality offspring.
Southern Star's Goat Philosophy
Back when we first started raising goats twenty five years ago, goats were viewed as 'the poor man's cow.'  We have raised goats for fun, for milk, for meat, and as a means of income.  We firmly believe that the introduction of the Boer goat in the nineties turned the tables on the goat industry, making it a viable agri-business that will continue to boom for years to come.  At the same time goat production remains an opportunity for anyone to take advantage of without a  huge start-up expense or the need for large acreage.  Raising goats is still a 'poor man's' dream come true.
We also strongly feel that goats and the Internet go hand in hand.  While the Boer goat industry grows by leaps and bounds each year, marketing avenues are still in primitive stages of development.  The United States imports millions of pounds of goat meat yearly, yet few individuals and businesses have met the challange to make the transition from pasture to dinner table a reality.  Goat producers are selling their product in newspaper classifieds and across the web due to a lack of 'middlemen' buying their goats and then making goat meat available to retail outlets.  Southern Star Boer Goats realizes the challanges goat producers face in marketing their livestock.  We have created online marketing tools such as our Goats for Sale Classifieds and Goat Producers Directory and make them available to goat breeders, farmers, and ranchers on our Texas Goat website.