New Experiment to give a good budget for the next doe I buy...

[Youngfarmer2019]

Theres a local animal auction right down the road from me, I go there almost every Thursday and have noticed a pattern. The goats that people bring sell more by size than they do breed or color, the bigger the goat/sheep, the more money it brings. People FIGHT over the biggest of the goats. Last couple weeks big bucks (Nubians, alpines, Boers) have brought $250 (on the low end)-$370 PER BUCK, these are bucks people! non registered cull stock is selling for that much. SO with that being said, I got to thinking...what if I started to bring bucks to auction off, the auction takes $10/ head on each goat you sell, which isn't much. I started to scour Craigslist for free or cheap goats and came across 3 free bucks, two Nubians, one alpine, all in the weight range of 150 lbs-250 lbs, about the size of goats that were bringing $200-$300 at the auction. We're going to pick them up and auction them off on Thursday! I can't wait to see how much they bring

To be continued...

 

[canesisters]

Well that is just so clever!! Best of luck - and don't mention the plan to anyone or you might soon find no free/cheap goats to be had anywhere and a glut of nearly unsaleable goats at the auction.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Please quarantine these goats away from the ones you have! Buying and bringing a lot of strange goats to your place is a recipe for disaster as far as disease prevention goes. Should work well however if you have a place where they can't contaminate the areas that your goats live. Good luck!

 

[Mini Horses]

They're bought for butcher. . Agree, do keep away from your goat herd. Not that they are "diseased" but don't risk it. . Not to mention some bucks have bad habits...damage, injury, you know.

 

[Youngfarmer2019]

Please quarantine these goats away from the ones you have! Buying and bringing a lot of strange goats to your place is a recipe for disaster as far as disease prevention goes. Should work well however if you have a place where they can't contaminate the areas that your goats live. Good luck!

I have two fenced in pond areas, and one goat pen up by the house, every new goat I bring on the property gets quarantined in one of the two ponds… so we’re good

 

[Youngfarmer2019]

They're bought for butcher. . Agree, do keep away from your goat herd. Not that they are "diseased" but don't risk it. . Not to mention some bucks have bad habits...damage, injury, you know.

They will be well away from my other goats, I will be picking them up on Wednesday, taking them to auction on Thursday, so hopefully that’s not enough time for them to get themselves in a scrape

 

[Ridgetop]

You can just leave them in the trailer overnight with water and hay. Then the only place to disinfect will be the trailer. Clever thinking on your part.

 

[Mini Horses]

That's what I'd do! Why Release & load again?

 

[Youngfarmer2019]

That's what I'd do! Why Release & load again?

True true…

 

[Youngfarmer2019]

Well y’all, the Nubian bucks were picked up before I could get there. Now I’m only picking up the young alpine buck tomorrow.