Pricing questions

[Nanno]

Dang... I just looked up the "per pound" price of goats in Colorado right now and I am completely shocked. They're going for $2/lb. and up. The very cheapest are still well over $1/lb. Even little kid goats smaller than Sledge and Hammer are going for $2-$2.50/lb. That would put Snickers around $240 just for meat. The big bucks start to get cheaper per pound, but they're still quite expensive. That does give me something of a starting point. I know that some of us have gotten lucky with a very cheap dairy cull (here's lookin' at you, Cuzco!), but I don't expect that to be the norm. I don't want to price my babies down so low that the meat buyers "discover" us. They all have too nice of working goat conformation and too good a start on them to go for meat. Sledge and Hammer are around 50 lbs. already, maturing beautifully, and are every bit as friendly as any bottle babies. They should be ready to wean in another 2-3 weeks or so.