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reference to functional need in your book field to farm you say that dairy goats are unsuitable as a main animal enterprise. goats do not have a fixed kidding season like sheep,dairy goats need to be milked twice a day and are clever escape artists so can you please explain why they are unsuitable?
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Mudpatcher
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goats and functional need
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mudpatch
, 29 Mar 2010 20:45
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Guest_Dave_*
Posted 29 March 2010 - 21:02
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Goats are not really suited to be a main animal enterprise because of the large number of them that you would need to keep, it would not really be possible to keep enough goats to make a living. Unless you mechanised in a big way, to make goats milk pay you would need over a hundred goats and you would also need a pasteurising machine and a machine to put the milk into cartons, there is no choice in buying these machines you have to have them by law. Your level of investment on machinery alone would be 30,000 and upwards, and you would be run off your feet all day. Where would you sell this level of output of milk, if you want to go into goats do it in a small way and do not sell it as milk add value to it and turn it into ice cream or cheese or yoghurt.
Goats are not really suited to be a main animal enterprise because of the large number of them that you would need to keep, it would not really be possible to keep enough goats to make a living. Unless you mechanised in a big way, to make goats milk pay you would need over a hundred goats and you would also need a pasteurising machine and a machine to put the milk into cartons, there is no choice in buying these machines you have to have them by law. Your level of investment on machinery alone would be 30,000 and upwards, and you would be run off your feet all day. Where would you sell this level of output of milk, if you want to go into goats do it in a small way and do not sell it as milk add value to it and turn it into ice cream or cheese or yoghurt.
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Posted 11 June 2011 - 22:22
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what about dispensing with the dairy side, and going for goat meat? there surely is a large ethnic want for goat meat, as it makes up nearly 70% of ALL meat consumed worldwide? We have three dairy goats and a Boer Cross Meat goat male. We need to get the nannies in kid to milk them, but if they throw a male kid, at least with the meat genes in it, we can raise it for a reasonable carcass and slaughter. We sell ours to the local asian restaurant. We get £75 per carcass (as long as its halal slaughtered) which menas if we kid around late march they go off to the abbatoir around end august.
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Posted 12 June 2011 - 06:47
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Goats wouldnt satisfy functional need,for meat production,the milking route(suggest 3 times a day milking) along with niche products you produce means you could put together a plan with a smaller herd,tied in with meat production a nice enterprise.But you would have to have a number of skills and capital investment on equipment to start up.Am sure there is a successful planning application out there to be viewed,others on this forum are good at finding them.I knew of a set up that was up for sale a few years ago as a going concern,then an empty unit he had had battles with the planners but that was before many people knew about Permitted rightswhat about dispensing with the dairy side, and going for goat meat? there surely is a large ethnic want for goat meat, as it makes up nearly 70% of ALL meat consumed worldwide? We have three dairy goats and a Boer Cross Meat goat male. We need to get the nannies in kid to milk them, but if they throw a male kid, at least with the meat genes in it, we can raise it for a reasonable carcass and slaughter. We sell ours to the local asian restaurant. We get £75 per carcass (as long as its halal slaughtered) which menas if we kid around late march they go off to the abbatoir around end august.
