Buckling and doeling!

[Jillis]

This boy is very sweet, calm and friendly. His sire is the Alpine buck whose dam milked 20 lbs a day at peak in her first freshening. His dam is my Nupine, Francesca, who is so far a good producer and very sweet natured and calm.
I give bucklings away. I am only asking the cost of his CDT and disbudding---that's $10.00!



The doeling I am selling is the one with ears and a white patch on her side. For no other reason than that I have to sell some of them, I can't keep them all! Her dam is my best producer so far---that's her on the side with the donkey ears and face! $35.00, includes the cost of CDT and disbudding. More if I hold her after weaning.

[Jillis]

Notice all te goat heads in the bottom of the picture. I had a hard time getting a decent shot---finally lifted it way in the air and pointed it in the general direction of the kids and got lucky!

[ailsaek]

So the cute girl and the buckling together would be just $45? Wow. Can you band the boy if someone wants to buy him and wants it done? And am I right in thinking that they'd fit in a couple of cat carriers, or even together in one large one?

[Jillis]

Yes, the boy can be banded, it's not a big deal.

That's about what you get for grade goats that are this age in our area---I don't want the boy to go to the meat goat guy! A little older and you could get a bit more, but not a whole heck of a lot more. As mature milkers, you could reasonably get anywhere from $100 to $175 for good grade milkers.

My main hope is that they go to a good home.

I don't think that either one would fit comfortably into a cat carrier, much less together. The boy is mostly Alpine, as is the girl. They both would fit into a dog carrier, I am sure!

There are excellent milking lines on both sides, if you wanted to leave the boy intact, they are not related to each other and you just might get some great milkers out of the pair.

Let me know!

[ailsaek]

Originally Posted by Jillis

Let me know!

DH got my hopes up saying maybe we wouldn't sell so DS could stay in the really good school system he's in now(*), and now he's saying that he wants to get the place on the market after all and see what happens. We have an acre and a quarter here, with lots of lovely scrub that goats could eat, and the town only charges $10 a year for a livestock license. Yaaaaargh!

I'm refraining from posting a long screaming fit about the whole move/not move thing, but....

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* DS has Down Syndrome and is just moving up to kindergarten. The only towns we're looking at that would allow us to keep goats don't even have kindergartens.