About Madrid

We, as an industry, protect wildlife and the areas it roams. We are proud to be a part of that custodianship and the lifestyle it affords. We are, and always will be, game farmers at heart.

The farm was primarily an extensive breeding operation that sold plains game and red list Antelope. In May of 2014 Ken Whyte Junior established Madrid Game Breeders and began the more intensive monitoring and management of the game while introducing top quality genetics to add to the farms diversity. We are now the proud breeders of Roan Antelope, Nyala, Kudu, Bushbuck, Common Reedbuck, and two colour variant Impala species. We specialise in the breeding of top quality Nyala and have begun creating genetically diverse populations. We have begun to breed for various characteristics in terms of horn length, shape and width while maintaining a genetically strong animal. We strive to deliver Roan Antelope that are better adapted to high tick load environments. We intend to find ways to innovate and advance the industry while being both student and teacher to other breeders, both old and new.

On Madrid ethically and biologically friendly breeding is our prerogative. We aim to conserve our land and resources while providing our animals with the best conditions possible. We prioritise our roan herd with the hopes of joining a reintroduction effort in other areas of Africa that have diminished populations. We aim to improve the environment and ecology of our area through our processes.

  • Farm Established 1988
  • Game Breeding since 2014
  • 3200 hectares of mixed intensive and extensive game farming
  • Ethical and genetically superior breeding practices
  • Specialised Nyala Breeding
  • Roan Antelope breeding
  • Royal and Black Impala herds
  • Diverse array of other species
  • Second generation game farming
  • High tick load adapted game
  • Innovative farming practices
  • Proud to be part of an incredible industry
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We intensively breed a diverse array of species. Nyala, Roan Antelope, Black Impala, Royal Impala, Kudu, Common Reedbuck, Bushbuck, Waterbuck. We also have several plains game species on an extensive system.

Nature can be fully saved through love from people

Madrid maintains burning protocols during the dry season in order to both protect our farm and improve the animals habitat. Before the introduction of smaller fenced farms, veldfires would move through areas essentially resetting the veld. The fires burn through unused undergrowth allowing better grasses to grow through, burning parasites off along with it. The reduction of tick load is certainly a benefit to the intense nature of breeding game. We mimic these processes through block burning whereby we burn large areas annually, alternating areas as needed. Firebreaks are protective barriers burnt along boundaries in order to protect farms from uncontrolled fires as well as contain block burns. We put breaks in annually to ensure the protection of our animals and staff alike.