selling kid problems

[RPC]

Does anyone else have problems selling kids this time of year? I have a 3 month old boer buckling that is about 50-55 pounds and it seems like no one wants him. I think he could make a nice buck but right now I am thinking he will just go to the auction barn. I have no space to keep him and I want to get his mom bred. I am asking what I think is a fair price. I have him reduced to $125. He is a commercial buckling so he is not papered but I really thought he would have sold by now or atleast had some sort of offers on him. What am I doing wrong. Is it just the time of year?

 

[ksalvagno]

I think part of it is time of year. My last kid took a couple months to sell. All the 4H kids have what they want and no one seems to be looking to buy goats. Maybe try some of the online livestock sales sites.

 

[RPC]

OK I do have him on craigslist and in the free ad paper which is a paper in our surrounding area to sell things in.

 

[smoky73]

Not sure how things are on your state but the only time young kids sell in my area is around May when the Spanish want them for. Cinco de mayo. All I have are unregistered goats and males are hard to sell outside of the auction house even when they have been banded. We usually end up waiting at least 8 months to a year for decent price. I could never get over $50 for a kid that size here.

 

[freemotion]

You need to reach your ethnic population, whatever it is in your area, that values goat meat or pasture raised meat. They are not likely reading the English ads.....find out how to advertise to the communities that would buy goats any time of year. Maybe flyers or go into a restaurant or small business owned by......fill in the blanks. I've had the migrant workers inquire about my goats and I just have a few dairy does! They were buying rabbits next door for $10 for a live young rabbit.

I was offered $150 for a dairy buckling about the size of yours by some Jamaicans that work with my dh. I was keeping him for breeding and still the guys pestered dh about buying him.

There are buyers out there, just gotta find them and let them know you have a goat for them.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I have had terrible luck selling to the ethnic population in our area, they don't want to pay anything for them and they think if they offer to buy 3 they can get a great deal on them. One guy was trying to buy my entire year supply for a deal. He said, " we can work something out." I said, " why don't you come into the stockyards and bid on them." He said, " We can work a better deal than that." I would rather take my chances at the stockyards than give them away on my farm.

 

[Roll farms]

That's why I hate kidding past March...dairy kids are the only thing I have any luck selling past May.

I haven't been able to sell Shawnee or her boys and I'm asking 600$ less than I gave...

 

[20kidsonhill]

yup, selling after May isn't easy around here either. Everyone seems to be thinking of starting herds or adding to their herds in the spring.

 

[Ariel301]

I have had terrible luck selling to the ethnic population in our area, they don't want to pay anything for them and they think if they offer to buy 3 they can get a great deal on them. One guy was trying to buy my entire year supply for a deal. He said, " we can work something out." I said, " why don't you come into the stockyards and bid on them." He said, " We can work a better deal than that." I would rather take my chances at the stockyards than give them away on my farm.

Yeah, the Hispanics here will buy them, but they don't want to pay more than $20 for a full sized goat (and it has to be really big and fat at that) and $5 for milk-fed kids. They were trying to offer $20 for $1000 champion milking does in full milk a few months ago, because they "looked really meaty and tender"

It's pretty hard to sell male goats here any time of year (except in the fall to Muslims, but then they must be bucks with horns and no ear tags or tattoos). Females will go pretty well, but in the town I live in, no one wants to pay $100 for a pedigreed, registered doeling from a 2-gallon a day dam when they can buy a crossbred poor quality goat kid for $10 down the road, they just don't understand the difference in quality.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I just had someone call and want to buy my June commercial kids, so they can finish feeding them out. He said he is having a heck of a time filling his orders. I am thinking I just might try to make a deal with them and unload them, since we are tight on space and these kids weren't my main kid crop they were some extras I bred to see how a new billy would do. I am going to keep 2 doelings out of the group to see how they grow out.

I had commented about $2 a pound live weight and I could weigh them accurately and he didn't say, no way. But I don't think a couple of them are more than 25lbs, They aren't growing the best on summer pasture on yearling dams, and I haven't been able to set-up my normal creep-feed zone, since my barn is slammed full of the kids fair projects.

I told him they weren't anything to brag about.

I weaned my Feb. kids at 8 weeks at pretty much 40 to 55 lbs each and These are going to be 8 weeks and average 25lbs.

I am just gripping. was hoping to get a little more money than that.