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Videos illustrating the breeding programme

The breeding plan

Using 75% dairy males to produce breeding stock of approximately 50% dairy blood

Applying the breeding plan to a real village

Providing a whole village with dairy goats by placing just one 75% dairy male at a time

Viable clusters of buck stations

Using a cluster of buck stations to generate a sustainable breeding population

Selective breeding

How selective breeding works

Training Videos

Home Introduction

Why Goats (introduction) Manageable Nutrition Income Environment

Activities (introduction) Training Buck stations Buck rotation Breed improvement Record keeping Breeders Groups

Technical background to the project About goats in Uganda Descriptive videos Partnership Discussion Group

Why crossbreeds Do people have goats Attitudes to Goat Milk Economics of milk vs. meat Milk and meat goats together Selection The new breed Commercialisation

Local goats - characteristics Housing Number of buck stations Dairy breeds in Uganda Meat Breeds Fodder trees - high rainfall Flavour of goats milk Buck house Feeding Fodders by type Fodders by source Feeding rack

Introduction to JOY Goats All about milk Fodder & Agroforestry Elgon impact Costs & benefits Breeding programme Record keeping Breed characteristics

Projects (overview) Masaka SE Uganda Elgon Teso Kasese Bundibugyo Kabale Lira Iganga Karamoja Lingira Island

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