20kidsonhill
True BYH Addict
We sell lots of boer and boer cross breeding stock and we don't show. Now in all honesty we aren't selling them for thousands. But we are able to ask a better price for them than meat prices. But it is more work and more dealing with customers.When selling registered animals there will be paperwork and tattooing needing to be done. We sell the better doelings for breeding stock, some are commercial and some are registered, if they have any faults we will offer them to the kids as 4H meat goat projects. We castrate almost all the males and offer the majority of them as show wethers. A couple of the better bucklings we keep intact and offer as herd sires. Out of about 45 kids this spring we offered 4 bucklings as herdsires, 3 of them were fullblood. The kids that didn't make those sales and are left over are then taken to the auction at around 60 to 80 lbs.
We offer them fairly young and try to sell all our kids by 3 or 4 months of age so we don't have as much feed or time into them.
Time of year the kids are born will help your sales. If kids in your area are interested in show wethers, your kids have to be 70 to 100lbs for the shows in your area. More people seem to be interested in buying in the springtime, I find it can be a little harder to sell breeding stock near the fall and middle of winter. Plus normally the best prices for meat goats are February through May at the stockyards.
I do still kid out a couple in summer time, only because I don't feel I can justify keeping a doe open all year, so if the doe didn't catch during normal breeding season then I will breed her off season.
We normal kid December through February. And my yearlings will kid hopefully by April, when they are 13 to 14 months of age. Our yearlings are always kept separate as a small group until the fall after their 2nd fall then they are put with the main herd for their 2nd breeding. I keep between 2 and 6 replacement doelings a year. I never keep just one and I try to keep them similar sizes. So often If I have a doe that kids out of sequence with the rest I will sell al lthe kids. I often sell all the kids from my yearlings the first year since they were born a little late in the year at out of sequence with the rest of the herd.
We offer them fairly young and try to sell all our kids by 3 or 4 months of age so we don't have as much feed or time into them.
Time of year the kids are born will help your sales. If kids in your area are interested in show wethers, your kids have to be 70 to 100lbs for the shows in your area. More people seem to be interested in buying in the springtime, I find it can be a little harder to sell breeding stock near the fall and middle of winter. Plus normally the best prices for meat goats are February through May at the stockyards.
I do still kid out a couple in summer time, only because I don't feel I can justify keeping a doe open all year, so if the doe didn't catch during normal breeding season then I will breed her off season.
We normal kid December through February. And my yearlings will kid hopefully by April, when they are 13 to 14 months of age. Our yearlings are always kept separate as a small group until the fall after their 2nd fall then they are put with the main herd for their 2nd breeding. I keep between 2 and 6 replacement doelings a year. I never keep just one and I try to keep them similar sizes. So often If I have a doe that kids out of sequence with the rest I will sell al lthe kids. I often sell all the kids from my yearlings the first year since they were born a little late in the year at out of sequence with the rest of the herd.
