So, how much did they bring?
Loading up the market lambs and some of the market kids to go to the St. Joseph Missouri sheep and goat sale this morning. The market was better than anyone anticipated, especially me. Notice how important it is to have your kids or lambs the right weight.
Lambs 90 lbs. or more brought less money than the ones in the 70 lb. range. The 80 lb. lambs probably netted less than the 80 - 80 lb ones when you consider the extra feed cost. Go here www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/am... for the full market report.
The Kids 55lb. - 65lb.s probably were the best money makers. The heavier ones brought enough less to not be as profitable considering the feed cost also. We had a few light weights that we brought that in our opinion were done growing and they brought less / lb. at 40 lbs. than the 55 - 60. We left more light weights at home to grow more for future sales. They would have brought about $100 less than the 55 - 60 lb. ones and shouldn't cost more than $5 - $10 / hd to feed up to market weight.
Having a $300 scales and using it returned thousands of dollars.
This is of course the most I've ever gotten for market lambs and kids. Will it stay this high?
Goats are hard to raise. It needs to.
Both your sheep and goats are in excellent condition. They're robust, not limbing, swift moving. Congrats!
I hope that price will come back they are down a lot know compared to last year you done good on them
Love the video new to the action gam👍
Thank you for bringing us along. Glad you got the price you got because raising goats is an art!
I call it "skart", half skill and half art. ;})
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Loving the videos. Thanks
Good video. Thanks
Really like your videos! I need a working chute like yours!
Awesome!
great video a lot of info.dont understand why were the 90lbs sold for less. in Trinidad more weight= more money. no auction market here though. thanks for sharing
Wow. This goat market just keeps going up. We are in South Dakota. We sold most of ours in November and should have held them. We have a few left we are selling on Monday. I read your book and really enjoyed it. There was a lot of good information in it.
Thanks Jesse, glad my book is of help to you.
@@grandviewlivestock3936 Wait...you have a book? Where can I buy it?
@@Digger927 You can get it on my website. www.grandviewlivestock.com/book.htm
I was at the sale and your kid goats brought the most. The uniformity and hard weight they carried brought the premium.
Hey Clint, would have liked to meet you.
Congratulations from McClave, Co.
Thanks Jeff.
Nice pay day for you
I'm so confused can someone break that down how much profit he got from the sheep for me? Or explain how to break it down??
WOW!!!!!! I’m checking to see the cost of hauling from 👌
Hauling from OKLAHOMA
Basically they are sold for like $2.00 - 3.50 a pound. So a goat sold for $2.00 a pound at 60 pounds is like $120.00.
They sold for $4.125 per pound times 59 =$243.375 each. These are record high prices for lambs and goats.
Hi from lacombe Alberta just kidding Nanneys it +4 Celsius today
That sounds awful!
having so much trouble finding out how much they actually paid for a 50 pound goat - sometimes it is per 100 weight and then it is per pound so I think that you got about $110.00 american for a 50 pound goat ?? curious -- I raise sheep.
At what age do you typically replace your ewes? Ever get 10 years out of any?
As long as they got good teeth and good bag they can stay as long as they want. I haven't had sheep for 10 yrs. Yet.
Just curious how long you fed the lambs and kids post weaning and does it consistently pencil out?
They were started on feed about Nov 1 but didn't get going on the feeders well until Dec . 1 It definitely pays as the price is going up along with the wt. of the animal. Some I sold in Nov. only brought $2.40/lb and weighed about the same. A 50 lb. lamb in nov. would only get you about $125. The feed and other cost is about $15. Those lambs brought almost $250 in Jan. Use your own figures but I would believe you would find that it always pencils out unless you get the lambs too big. The ones I sold in Nov. would have weighed 90 plus lbs in Jan. and brought fewer dollars and ate the most feed of any of them. They will bring less dollars / hd when they get over the optimum wt. for your market area.
How much do you shrink from the on the farm weight? I do not have scales at home but weighed a load at the elevator and they shrank 8 1/2 percent. I brought them in evening and they sold following day.
A lot of things determine shrink. If you loaded them and hauled to elevator then let them set overnight before you then loaded again and took to the sale or even overnight at the salebarn, you would have a tremendous amount of shrink. We never weigh on sale day or even the day before as that would cause more shrink also. Did weigh the trailer once as we were on the way to the sale but wasn't very accurate as we weighed back and had different amount of fuel in pick up. I'd say it was about 3% shrink. Goats get stressed easily and that is the main cause of shrink.
@@grandviewlivestock3936 I trailer weighed close to the sale barn at the elevator, dropped them off at the sale barn and they sold the following day.
Do you think the large lot size helped with prices?
It probably did some. Not sure how much as they would all be going to slaughter so intermingling with other kids in a feeding situation wouldn't be an issue. That being said, if fat kids are in short supply, a big bunch is coming through, I would bid up if I was a buyer and needed to fill an order, but they can only pay so much.
What breed of goats ru running
Would you mind posting the sale barns fees? Is it a fixed cost on a per head basis or % of sale price?
You should probably just call the sale where you plan to sell. St. Joseph seems to be cheaper than most. There are all sorts of small fees besides commission that are added on, insurance, lamb check off, etc so ask about those also. It will be different from sale barn to sale barn. Some charge flat fees and some commission.
@@grandviewlivestock3936 Thanks. My local sale barn charges a flat $7.50 per head fee but there are no big buyers there so prices are terrible. A couple other places within a couple of hours of me get high market prices and I think their fees average out to about 10%.
Which state you from please
Kansas
How much profit the (net) from 180 goats ?
That depends. What I net has nothing to do with what you will net in your business. You must do the numbers and figure out your cost. I have some videos on here where I figured out our feed cost and cost of gain. Use them for reference. Put in your own numbers. The video you referred to is a couple years old. Look up current prices at where you might sell. I have other videos showing scenarios with different kidding rates and nanny costs to keep for a year, on a spreadsheet. What I netted on 180 goats really doesn't matter, what matters is what can you net on 180 goats. There are many videos on here to help you figure that. Let me know if you have other questions.
@@grandviewlivestock3936 I have woodland I was thinking about getting goats to clear the land . but I am not sure if that is good idea no information about it .Most people just have fun (hobby) with it and not for income $. If there is no good income from it, it is a waste of time because time is money my friend .
What kind of goats ?
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Those are not goats. Those are sheep. I raise boer goats
Depends on which ones you are talking about. We sold both at this sale.
I you watch farther he sold goats too