Goat expenses

[Ducksandchickens]

I want a goat but I’m not sure how expensive it is. How much is a goat, fencing, and housing? I want like two or three

 

[sylviethecochin]

Goat cost? Locally, it's anywhere from $50-$300 each, with the $300 being for adult buck meat goats or pregnant female Saanens, and the $50 being for bottle-baby dairy bucklings. You best bet might be a doe and kids for maybe $250-350—but dairy is more expensive than commercial meat is more expensive than funny pet buckling Nigerians, so keep that in mind.

If you do want just pets, buy some males and castrate them. Bucks stink.

Fencing cost varies widely, depending what you have on hand and what size of pasture you use. Would you be using chainlink, or locust posts and barbed wire, or hogwire, etc?

Housing—again, it depends. I tend to look for local scrap, or houses being taken down so that I can get materials. It's a lot cheaper than Lowes. For three goats, you wouldn't really need a big building, just deep enough that the weather can't come in through the door. If you want dairy goats, your set-up would be a bit more involved, of course.

 

[Ducksandchickens]

I live in a place that gets cold in winter so housing has to be good. I would want to use cattle panel. And I was also thinking about getting castrated males. I don’t want to have to milk them

 

[Ducksandchickens]

I would like lamanchas as well. Or Nubians. Does anyone know the team he for castrated Nubians or lamanchas?

 

[RemsLittleFarm]

Like all animals - cost varies. We currently have pygmy and some pygmy crosses. They're out at my Grandmothers. They're kept in a horse barn and are turned out into a pasture that had horse fence originally that was made goat proof (added chicken wire like around it). They get fed goat pellets and horse hay. The stalls are kept clean with sawdust.

We sell babies from $50-200 depending on breed/gender. We sell our adults, if they're debudded and fixed $200. Adult males go cheaper then adult females.

 

[Ducksandchickens]

Ok thanks