call the local school , and see if they have a 4 h program , i sold two of my extra meat bucklings for 50.00 each last night ,
most of the dairy goat classes are for does though
you are in washington state, not sure what side,
as long as they arent disbudded you might find a market for them as pack goats , idaho has a lot of goat packing groups .....
are they good looking enough that you could keep them for cart goats?
wethers work great as cart goats ....
that was my plan on the next bucklign that gets born , assuming i cant turn it into a profit some other way
personally i look at extra bucks as a commodity, obviously from my meat goats they are a money maker, so why should i look to the ones from my dairy herd any different ?
i mean best case scenario any given year half my kids will be bucks, now even out of 10 does, that can add up to a lot of meat animals , or whatever, luckily i have a pakistani buyer who buys meat animals from me directly about every 3 weeks, and he doesnt particularly care what type it is, as long as its big and healthy, i have been selling him 70 lb goats at market rate for them
which is right now about 1.45-1.60 lb
so what i am saying is , after the 4 h show , they are still marketable ,
i think its wise to have several markets for your goats
and thier products,it gives people a better perception of goats as a great animal
Last night , the lady whos children bought the 4 h goats came out here, my first thought upon seeing her was, there goest the sale, shes here in a work dress and heels ( yes heels)
her kids are immaculate, mine have been working all day , and look like urchins that they are, my farm is , well a farm , it has poop and animals and yeah , smells too....
so we take her over to the kid pen and pointed out the kids to her, her duaghter is like, oh mommy , that one !!!
which was perfect, cause it was the one i had planned to steer them toward, he was a 3/4 boer, nice and beefy friendly kid
so then off to the other pen , with a detour by the piglets and rabbits, well in chatting turns out they have rabbits too last year was the first year they tried goats, and they fell in love with them , the one chiclds goat went to the premium sale, so they were happy ,
and yeah i thnk well on the way to being "goat people"
the second buck was still on the bottle, so he came from the other pen ,
so i sold a3 month old and a 2 week old for 50.00 a piece,
i had just bought the dam , shes an alpine not all thatl ong ago , for 75.00 , so between the milk shes giving , and all her kids being sold, shes paid for herself well over
unreg. 4 year old alpine NOA type doe
any how, got to go , i know i rambled ,
price is what you feel its worth , plus your areas going rates
Anyhow, they are gorgeous and I would like to sell them. I think that they would make great bucks, but am also willing to wether them.
