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Updated 4/17/2024

We have a senior doe in milk available for $600. Please email if interested.

A Note About Kid Prices…

If 1 doe eats about a flake of hay per day, and there are about 20 flakes in a bale, and a good quality bale costs about $25, then one doe eats $456 in hay per year. That’s just hay. Dairy does require about a pound of grain for every two pounds of milk produced. If a doe produces 900 pounds of milk, she needs 450 pounds of grain. Good quality dairy grain averages about $30 per 50 pounds, or about $270 for that doe. Does require supplementation to match the demand on their bodies to produce babies and milk, if we provide the bare minimum of a dose of Replamin every 2 weeks for the year, each doe requires about $30 in just Replamin. In addition, loose minerals, kelp, Zinpro, selenium yeast, and copper sulphate add to our supplement cost per doe to keep them at their very best. Each doe gets blood work for bioscreening against CAE, CL, and Johnnes. After supplies, shipping, and lab fees through WADDL it averages $28 per doe. And those are just some of the per doe values that go into a kid being born alive and ready for you to take home from our farm.

The care of a doe for one year, at minimum, costs $456 + $270 + $30 + $28 = $784

Linear Appraisal costs us up to $500 per year. Registrations cost us up to $900 per year. DHIR costs us up to $300 per year. And each show averages us about $500 in gas, supplies, and entry fees (not including food and copious amounts of coffee for us attendees!)

These values don’t include the cost of heat for babies in the winter or fans in the summer, coccidia preventative, vaccines, medication and vet bills in emergency or sick situations, bedding and barn care, fly control (here’s a clue, we spend over $1000 per year on fly control alone), or fence and shelter upkeep.

By the time a year has passed and a doe presents us with her brand new kiddos, and she’s racked up her Quaking Canopy Farm B&B bill of a minimum $784, we then price kids at a point we feel is as fair as we can while still affording to care for our herd for the next year so we get to have baby goats here in another year.

If a doe presents us with 2 wethers who leave as pets at $125 each, she’s a bit behind on her bill for the year and we’re keeping our fingers crossed for does the following year! And in case you’re wondering, no, I don’t keep tallies on what each doe “owes” me. This is just an example of the cost of raising these goats to help explain how I price kids from my farm.

Doe kids and bucks start at $700. I add an additional $50 for accomplishments of their mothers: DHIA records on the high end for the breed, AR or ST or milking stars, SG designation, LA scores in the Good or Excellent categories, and CH wins. A kid from a dam who is appraised at E90, has her SG designation, has CH legs, and produces 900 pounds in a lactation could be priced as $700 + $50 + $50 + $50 + $50. I always have discretion on final prices, but hopefully this formula gives some insight.

The table below serves to show EXAMPLES of how I come to the price on a kid. Does and bucks are always priced the same as I don’t sell bucks I wouldn’t keep in my own herd. These Examples are not gospel as each doe used in this table is likely to obtain more accomplishments and as such the price for a kid from her will evolve.

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