kid prices

As someone who just searched high and low to find some decent dairy goats, I think you have great prices if your goats are good, disease free goats. We paid quite a bit more than we set out to, but you just can't get good goats for less.

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I didnt read all the replies...

My nubians are purebreds, registered, and show quality. I charge 300-400$ for the kids. I have seen several GOOD quality bucks at 500-600$ I'd never ever sell a registered show quality kid for 15$.
My pygmys that are just pets range from 60-80 for Does, 80 for bucks and 40 for wethers.

I wouldnt lower your price. I'd just say ok thankyou for your interest.

I have some good bloodlines in my herd (Copper-Hill and Oak Gold to name a couple) but it's worth it to me to sell them for $30 so I don't have to feed them. Also, I don't care much for bottle kids because they are always under foot.

All the prices I have seen posted here do not seem out of line for first class animals off the farm, and actually are quite cheap when you consider all the labor that goes into making a weaned bottle goat.

But I love the sale barns...can't help myself. Locally, we have a bunch of show goat breeders who get high dollar for their purebred, registered stock off the farm. And that's great, and more power to them. Behind the scenes, they also feed the sale barns with their "undesireable" animals. The 4-Hers also sale barn animals. Which I pick up at auction with no papers for $35-40 average for a 6-10 month old, or $75-80 for 2 years old and up.

These "undesireable" animals then go to my meat farm, where if I am very careful in my conformation selection, they'll make me some great kids to sell. I currently even have a 1/2 Boer billy I bought from the sale barn at about 10 months old for $75. I'm about a week or two away from his first kids.

Sometimes people get mad at me for saying I do this, like it threatens their business or something. But those auction goats would all go to meat if I hadn't bought them. On the days I am not there, they still arrive and are sold. So I am helping the goat breeders by putting some of my money in their pockets for goats they wouldn't sell out the front door.

Here's an $80 undesireable sale barn Boer nanny.

Couldn't have put it better myself!! YES!! You couldn't pay me $15 to bring home a baby from some of those places, or from a sale barn where I could risk infecting the rest of my herd. It might be a deal to some, but the risk and expense of getting the rest of my crew sick isn't worth it to me.

I put down a deposit on two reg Nubian doelings this spring. They are unborn, $250 each. Why? Because you can look at their parents, their grandparents, etc and see the quality of milkers behind them. That's worth something to me. Its not just a piece of paper.

I've paid $80 for Pygmy doelings, $40 for Pymgy whethers, $50 for Pygmy bucks, $250 for unreg commercial meat does...just to get an idea of price range around here. This is Canadian funds. I don't think your prices are out of line.

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Ravenwood Ranch
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Amen to that!

We aren't goat people....YET!

When we do have everything set up and are looking for goats, I'll happily pay for quality.
There's a lot to be said for dealing with folks who do it right.

IMO, stick to what you know is right.