This is so wrong...it seems...

[Catahoula]

http://merced.craigslist.org/grd/3503293282.html
Few months ago, on an CL ad, you can get a pure nubian buckling for $25 and I thought that was sad....

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Wow crazy! They probably shouldn't be breeding!

 

[terri9630]

Sounds like a dairy. We used to be able to buy the bull calves for almost, and sometimes, nothing.

 

[Lamancha Acres Dairy Goat]

Awwww i hate when i check the sex of the babies and its a buck kid, more worries on were its gonna go. We were lucky for 2012, 9 doelings and 3 buck kids. One became my brothrs pet and the other 2 became my junior hersires!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Awwww i hate when i check the sex of the babies and its a buck kid, more worries on were its gonna go. We were lucky for 2012, 9 doelings and 3 buck kids. One became my brothrs pet and the other 2 became my junior hersires!

Ooh!!! good odds!!! Hope mine turn out as well! I plan on keeping all the does so I hope we get a lot! Congrats!

 

[SkyWarrior]

Ah, people around here were selling $5 bucks/wethers. Yeah, it's either a dairy or someone who has a bunch of males to get rid of.

If they weren't so far away, I'd buy a few, wether them, and raise them for freezer camp. With my own does pregnant, the bucklings will get wethered and sold or raised until about 8 months and put in freezer camp. It's just the way it has to happen.

I can't keep the doelings, so they'll get sold to people who want does.

 

[kstaven]

We raise our bucklings for the meat markets. At $2.50 and up / pound live weight they are worth the inputs. I don't see the ad as sad. I see it as a reality.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

We raise our bucklings for the meat markets. At $2.50 and up / pound live weight they are worth the inputs. I don't see the ad as sad. I see it as a reality.

Are you selling them for 2.50$ a pound on the hoof?

 

[D1]

We raise our bucklings for the meat markets. At $2.50 and up / pound live weight they are worth the inputs. I don't see the ad as sad. I see it as a reality.

I agree, I would rather see them sell them for $5 each and someone raise them for meat or pet rather than have breeder neglect them and not have proper care. when in the dairy goat business the milk is the reason for raising goats and the more you feed to the buckling goats you are NOT going to raise for any purpose other than to just keep pouring your profit into, ther best thing is to sell cheap and let someone else raise them.

$2.50/pound on hoof I wish we had a market like that for goats here.

 

[Catahoula]

I guess I thought it was sad that the buckling is only worth $5. I think a hamster cost more. I know...not everyone can house a goat...they are not the same as your household pets. They are livestock... It just doesn't feel right. Bet you can't buy a steer for $5 either. If someone were to buy them and put them in freezer camp, they'll probably have a few months of good life, good food. At that price...anyone can just get one...and may not have the intention of eating it....