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Kōrero: Nelson region

Farming Kiko goats

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Farming Kiko goats

Garrick Batten and his wife Anne developed the Kiko goat (kiko means ‘meat’ in Māori) from feral goats, on their property near Nelson in the 1980s. The animals were selected as meat-producing goats able to graze on typical hill-country pastures.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Rare Breeds Conservation Society of New Zealand

by Garrick Batten

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Carl Walrond, Nelson region – Farming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/28867/farming-kiko-goats (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 3 September 2010, updated 1 August 2015.