Understanding the prices of Boer & Kalahari Red Goats by Dr John Abraham Godson

Understanding the Prices of Boer & Kalahari Red goats The price depends on what class of animal you are looking for. There are 4 classes of Goats 1. The pedigree full blood (stud) goats which are the most expensive. There is no maximum price. You can get it for as high as 50,000 USD (35 million naira) or more in an auction. But you can get it from 2 million naira in my farm upwards depending on age and gender. I recommend your buck to be of this quality. 2. Full blood Commercial Goats. These are the second class of goats usually for commercial breeding purposes. Most does can be of this class but in Nigeria they are rare to find because most Boer Goat owners are still stocking their farms. In my Farm a doeling will go for about 1.8 million - 2 million if they are available. In South Africa you can get a doe of this class for about 500 USD but the cost of importing it makes it a lot more expensive with all the stringent requirements. In 2017- It cost me about 750,000 to bring in one doe. 3. Purebred Boer goats and field goats - these are goats that you cannot prove their origin. They look like Boer goats, but their progenitors may have been crossbred with other breeds. You can get these goats for about 1 million. 4. Meat goat is the last class of Goat usually a goat culled from the stock due to: age (too old to breed) defects illness etc Such goats can be bought for about 200,000 - 250,000 naira depending on reason for culling. ——- How do you make money when they are so expensive? There are 3 important streams of income for these goats. 1. Semen for AI sells for 50 -60 USD per straw depending on quality of Sire. A goat can give 2 - 3 semen “harvests” a week. Each harvest can be about 10-15 straws. If it’s just 10 straws twice a week that is 20 straws x 50 USD = 1000 USD a week. 2. Pure line breeding- as in the case of the buckling sold above. 3. Crossbreeding with local goats F1 crossbreed with WAD or SR sells for at least 150,000-250,000. If you had 200 of such does and they all gave birth to just 1 goat - you have 200 kids. If you sold just half of them at 150,000 - how much are you making? Now you understand! Sen Dr John Abraham Godson CEO Pilgrim Ranch Ltd Founder Boer & Kalahari Red Goat Club President Boer & Kalahari Red Goat Breeders Association of Nigeria Pilgrim Ranch Ltd Pilgrim Place 18 Victor Idowu street Close to Dunamis HQ- Glory Dome Airport Road LUGBE extension 1 Abuja, Nigeria Tel: 0902 3704194 WhatsApp: 0812 625 4077 Please book appointment before any visit