Posted by jimva on January 16, 2012 at 09:30:20 from (96.240.168.170):
I need some opinions and insight. Wife discussed this morning over breakfast that she would like to look into selling goat meat.
Here is a little bit of background. About 5 years ago the wife wanted to get into something on her own, she didn’t like cattle (as we have enough and she’s bored with them she says) So she did her research and her and her friend disappeared with the truck and cattle trailer one Saturday and came back with 10 registered boer goat nanny’s. Fast forward to today and she has 75 Does and 8 Bucks. The Does and Bucks she deems worthy of selling as commercial breeding stock get registered and sold at various commercial boer goat consignment sales and the others not deemed worthy of being sold as commercial breeding does, they are either sold individually off the farm or loaded up and taken to the livestock sale. I’ll admit it’s been profitable for her.
She did some research and come up with several things. 1) There is a growing Hispanic population in the counties around us 2) there are only a few goat farms that sell goat meat of those they sell the goats on the hoof and it’s the owner’s baby to butcher. 3) there is only one chain grocery store that sells goat meat within 60 miles of us and they cannot keep it in stock as it sells fast 4) there is a USDA inspected slaughterhouse about 40 miles from us that will butcher goats, vacuum seal and label cuts of meat for re-sale.
She envisions that the goats not going to be sold as commercial breeding stock, we would have them butchered, meat packaged and labeled for re-sale and then advertise and sell.
I for one cannot imagine it being this simple and suggested she do a lil more research on farm to public sale of meat.
I know there are folks on here that raise goats and Iam open to all advice and insight.
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