Starting with Boer goats- peigree important?

bergy, darned nice price on that. I have not seen any 100% that cheap here weaned. And I am in the market. Didja get paperwork for that?

__________________
Jim Steele
Sweetpea Farms
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." -- Robert Gates

Yes full papered. We got very lucky. Went to a breeders auction & no one was buying. We just went to watch but brought three home. We are already using a 100% buck, but now have the next one ready. Very happy with the solid red.

STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER

Bergy, I'm from the Kankakee area (just a little south of there). Actually no Rural Kings around me either, although there is one about an hour and a half further south from me. I don't know about way up North. I swear sometimes that Donovan is in the 'no fly zone' for everything livestock even though just about everything is represented here even on the large farm scale. You'd think there would be more available. Even vets and farriers are darned near impossible although I'm lucky to have a really good vet, he's close to retirement and it worries the dickens out of me. I had to learn to do my own minis hooves because finding a good, and reliable (to show up on time) farrier just couldn't be done. Im not sure exactly how to check for things like that in advance of moving somewhere. At least not in a reliable way, but I swear next time I move I WILL know if that's the case. haha

__________________
~Tami

Bob and Tami Parrington
COUNTRY HAVEN RANCH-

To get all the info on my new novel SHAKEDOWN, and watch the video trailer check out my writer's website: 'The Writer's Corner'

I keep a smal Boer herd and have to cull very hard to do it. My dairy goats are the larger herd. So each year, I have to make difficult decisions with my Boers. I use a Fullblood buck and percentage boer does. I hope to aquire a FB doe eventually. I sell breeding stock to those who want CAE and CL negative Boers. Many dairy goat breeders also have Boer herds and demand blood tested Boer herds. We all have our niche. I bottlefeed and disbud my doelings. Bucklings are wethered and put in our freezer or sold quickly. I do not butcher doelings as they are too valuable. I prefer a disbudded buck if possible so he can live with my dairy buck. I hand breed and know exact due dates and attend each birth, My Boers are pets and are very well cared for and pretty. However, i have no qualms about wethering them myself or butchering thm myself. We all do things in our own way

__________________
Diane Rhodes
Feral Nature Farm
LaManchas, MiniManchas and Boers
Member ADGA, MDGA

I have fullblood Boers that I bought with out papers to sell for meat .They are good for this and I get about a dollar a pound between 25 and 40 dollars.Some are Kiko mix. I bought the herd cheap(no papers) cause the owner didn't keep good records and just raised them for pets.The full bloods are beautiful reds and paints out of eggsfile and painted sunset. So last year I bought a good buck with papers, good genetics eggs knight \sasquatch and two papered south african does (no they weren't cheap) .So this year I am selling 50% registered stock and some fullblood.I actually have a list of people waiting for the babies and willing to pay registered prices .My first 50% babies are due any time now can't wait.So I guess the pedigree is only important if you want to sell goats with a pedigree

I don't. I keep them for breeding as well (either by one of my bucks, or I trade does with someone), but I'm just getting started as well with the meat goats. I have a lot of dairy goats too.

Ruth

bergy, you got REAL lucky for my neck of the woods. I just went to a farm sellout auction here where 9 preggers "Boer" nannies with no papers and two unpapered billies were being sold. I got there to buy, with trailer in tow -- but they were wormy, some had kidded, they were not very good conformationally...pretty pitiful lot...so I watched as SIXTY people gathered and bid them up to $150 per nanny, with the billies bringing $175 for the small one and $200 for the bigger. Tried real hard not to let my mouth hang open too much.

Heh...made me think about running a production sale sometime!

__________________
Jim Steele
Sweetpea Farms
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." -- Robert Gates

CountryHaven, I lived in Herscher for a couple years and Dwight for a few years, about 27 years ago. I used to edit the Herscher Press and the Reddick-Essex Courier weeklies.

__________________
Jim Steele
Sweetpea Farms
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." -- Robert Gates

This has been a VERY informative forum thread. I had been trying very hard to convince my husband that persentages were ok for our meat herd...he was certain that all we wanted were full bloods. We've decided on two milk goats (probably nubian or lamanches) two high percentages and two full blood nannies. We have a great buck that we're having delivered to us this weekend. I'm off to find my does now. Its so hard though, because there are several boer breeders in Colorado, and I'm not quite sure who to go with!

__________________
Impacting The Earth Little, My Children Much
My blog: Http://yourimpactmatters.com