selling kid problems

[20kidsonhill]

The full sized bucks at our auction are consistantly bringing 180 to 240 or so, depending on how thick muscled they are,and I would bet most of them are going to slaughter. Even the boer does that had any kind of good finish on them were going for 150 each. As long as they had finish and no limp or obvious visual health problem.
It is almost always worth my efforts just to take our commercial stuff into the stock yard and take a chance on price. I am often surprised at how well they are doing.

Last year I sold show whethers to a couple kids for $100 each and then a couple weeks later took in some left over kids at around the same size, maybe 60 lbs and got $110 to $125 for them. This year no one got show whethers for $100.

We were thinking of trying to hold 3 or so nice looking bucklings from our next set of kids and then keep them through the winter and try to sell them in the late winter/ early spring as 10 months to a year. Old enough to be ready to breed. I figured I would have to ask $250 for it to be worth my time. I am always getting calls from people wanting breeding age commercial bucks. The problem is, will they be willing to pay the $250 to make it worth my time to take care of them for an extra 6 to 8 months.

 

[manybirds]

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?

he would go alot better if her where castrated and dehorned. Not many people want a nonpapered buck. Not to be rude but all bucks should be papered with good blood lines and good type to be left a buck.

 

[20kidsonhill]

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?

he would go alot better if her where castrated and dehorned. Not many people want a nonpapered buck. Not to be rude but all bucks should be papered with good blood lines and good type to be left a buck.

Sorry, totally disagree with that, there are lots of commercial farms looking for non-papered breeding bucks. Not everyone is looking to pay high dollar and the best of the best.
And I have yet to see any dehorned meat goats around our area. And there are lots of them.

What I see mostly from commercial farms is they don't want to take the time to winter them and feed them out until they are old enough to breed. A 10 month old commercial buck, old enough to breed, sells fast around here. Doesn't even have to be all that special, just healthy and some muscle on him.

 

[Birchhatchery]

when the ethnic group buys goats do they care on breed or do they just buy goats to buy them just asking im thinking of getting some does but dont no what breed to get yet eveyone around has boars i currently have a pygmy buck and 2 weathers and ideas

 

[RPC]

Now remember I am new to this so I don't know a ton but it seems around here people don't dehorn their meat bucks except for a few breeders. When I go to the auction to sell our cattle we/I normally watch the goats sell. Not to buy just to watch. The bucks normally sell better then the wethers and the boers and other meat breeds sell better then the dairy or mini breeds.
The main reason we started breeding boers was because they did not have to be dehorned plus if you get big into showing for like ABGA you are not supposed to dehorn them. I have decided at this time not to register my goats because 1) we only show at the county fair and that is why we have them. At our fair none of the goats have to be registered. It is to teach my nieces responsibility and for them to save money for college. 2) Since I pay for everything and I don't have the best job I can't afford the registry membership and registering all the goats. Maybe if my nieces get more into it down the road and want to start doing all the shows I will change that and save the money and start registering everyone.
I guess we will see what next spring brings and if I have an easier time selling kids. If I do not then i will not be adding anymore does to the herd and we might even sell a few more so we have just enough for 4-H. I just need to get this buckling sold one way or another. I don't have space to winter him and sell him next spring because he is to small and my buck too big for me to keep them together.

 

[20kidsonhill]

when the ethnic group buys goats do they care on breed or do they just buy goats to buy them just asking im thinking of getting some does but dont no what breed to get yet eveyone around has boars i currently have a pygmy buck and 2 weathers and ideas

I would say they will buy what is available, but they now the markets and are looking for as good a quality as they can find.

 

[jodief100]

I have sold everything from cull does to dairy wethers to boer bucks to the ethnic groups. All they seem to care about is weight, muscling and NO FAT! A thin dairy wether will sell for more per lb than a fat boer around here. Diffferent groups like different things. I know a Jamacian family that wants older stinky bucks and Latino familys that want little 25 lb kids. I love my SE asian customers. They don't care as long as they are at least 40 lbs, no fat and not too skinny.

At the auction even pigmys and dairy wethers sell for $1.50-$1.75 per lb. Meat goats sell for more. They seperate them by size and body condition and sell in groups.

I do know that Gamal at Halal Farms USA will buy anything except pigmy and angora. He told me pigmys smell funny and the angoras are too messy when cleaning.

 

[20kidsonhill]

We were selling to a gentlemen from india and he wanted them well muscled, but for sure didn't want any fat on them. He would rather have less muscling than any fat.

 

[manybirds]

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?

he would go alot better if her where castrated and dehorned. Not many people want a nonpapered buck. Not to be rude but all bucks should be papered with good blood lines and good type to be left a buck.

Sorry, totally disagree with that, there are lots of commercial farms looking for non-papered breeding bucks. Not everyone is looking to pay high dollar and the best of the best.
And I have yet to see any dehorned meat goats around our area. And there are lots of them.

What I see mostly from commercial farms is they don't want to take the time to winter them and feed them out until they are old enough to breed. A 10 month old commercial buck, old enough to breed, sells fast around here. Doesn't even have to be all that special, just healthy and some muscle on him.

I don't have experiance with meat goats sorry. I just thought a pet might sell better. I know with dairy goats as a good responsible breeder you castrate it unless it is a purebred papered goat (unless your keeping it for yourself to breed)

 

[Spitchtara]

I found my goats online in the livestock section of orlando4sale.com, but they have other cities available at the top, not just Orlando. I am definitely going there to list mine when it's time to sell. Sometimes I go there just to look at pics of all the cute animals