Thinking of selling out my Nds

I see... Very sorry that you couldn't make it work out for you. I fully understand.

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I goofed, its four doelings not three.

I was very stubborn about this, in reality I should have hung it up 2 years ago, this is the first time in my life I have not been showing some sort of something but im tired, so tired that something has to give. If i was making money from the kids then I could at least pay some one to show them and help maintain them but its just not happening.

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Cannon farms, please open some space in your PM folder.

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Cannon Farms - I'm all over this - lol!

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I run into this all the time, kids sell themselves and need very little help I had a pair of adult Nigies for sale last year; a wether and a barren doe, cheap to move them. Ladies came to see them and fell in love with 3 goat kids, gave me a deposit and came back for them at weaning and they ended up buying a 4th kid So now I sell kids first, then sell any adults. They see kids and I tell them sorry those are retained, which they are.

Cannon I do not sell for show, I sell them as home milkers, weed eating pets for 4H and etc. Unregistered I get $150 for a dry doe, $250 for an unreg doe in milk that is handable and will let people milk. Doe kids unreg $150, reg $250-300. I sell to my market and maybe yours is more a home milking market like mine then a show one?

I sell more unregistered since the price is lower and they are not interested in showing either. They want milk not stars I do not show due to time and fear of my goats picking something up from there.
Now boys I have more trouble selling and I usually end up banding most and they go for $50-75 as weed eating pets, 4H for agility and things like that. Or I sell a doe and toss in her boys for free If they eat them they do not tell me and I do not ask.

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For me, it is the exact opposite. They want does in milk now, not kids they have to raise and then breed. You don't even want to know what they want to pay for those does in milk, too.
Of course, mine aren't NDs, mine are standard dairy.

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Yes, Roseanna - they want does in milk around here often - cheaper than I'll sell them for.

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It might be your location. I cannot imagine anyone actually paying $200 for a full grown papered ND, and much, much less for a kid. I can see them paying that for a nubie doe, but not a kid of any breed. Some places are just harder hit with the recession than others. And some goats are more popular in some areas than they are in others. Full size dairy goats are much more in demand here, not ND.

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It's not just you. I have no problem selling the first half batch of kids. But the second it can take way longer. It took me til October last year to sell the last kid. But then I had 25.
I think it's a combo of things but location and more NDs out there are the biggest factors in my area. I'm kind of outside the loop. Believe me, I know how frustrated you are. I have gone like a month with no inquires and then suddenly a flurry of activity.