A New Zealand breed of meat goat, its name drawn from the Maori word for meat, bred in the 1980s by Garrick and Anne Batten, who crossbred local feral goats with imported dairy goat bucks of the Anglo-Nubian, Saanen and British Toggenburg breeds. The breeding programme pursued only two aims: a fast rate of growth and the ability to survive the pastoral conditions of New Zealand's hill country.
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