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Senior Does, Yearling Does, Junior Does and Bucks For Sale!
Updated November 2024
Quaking Canopy Farm is moving!
Not far…We’re staying in Northern Nevada, but we are relocating an hour and a half. And the process does involve placing our herd temporarily with friends who have nowhere near the shelter, pen, or barn space we have while we make some major repairs, disassemble goat equipment, scrape everything clean, and move a whole goat farm! Whew! Who’s tired, I’m tired, are you tired?
We’ve made the tough choice to reduce our herd a bit to make sure they winter securely in their temporary digs - read: that all these fattypotatties fit snuggly and yet within reason shacked up in the temporary barn they will be stashed in while we move everything from one farm to the next farm! But let’s be real…Winter is the only real break time us dairy goat farmers get from kidding, milking, bottles/buckets, showing, appraising, more milking…This is the down time, this is the time to do something big (like moving a whole farm) if you’re going to do it. And so do it, we shall! After a nap. Or some IV Redbull.
We know where the herd is spending winter will have a lot of wind, significant snowfall we don’t experience here, and much lower temps than the herd is currently accustomed to. So, our goal as their stewards is to get their number to the point that best fits in the winter barn their will run to when needing to escape inclement weather and they can all squish in without shoving their friends out like Rose shoving Jack off the door in the ocean to freeze to death. That means this HumanHerdQueen and her many teenager lackies have done their best to offer up some sacrifices in the name of making sure the rest can squeeze into the barn doors. Sorry ya’ll, it’s this or get shoved outside in the cold!
2024 Doe kids
DOES OFFERED BELOW INCLUDE BREEDING TO ANY BUCK HERE FOR NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE
Coup de Grace X Norte-Dame $550
Kuskokwim X Cornucopia $550
Senior Does
DOES OFFERED BELOW INCLUDE BREEDING TO ANY BUCK HERE FOR NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE
Quaking Canopy Atlantis $900
(1.5 yr old) Castle Rock Lyric (or you can name her) (CR Kona X QC Dexter) $700
(1.5 yr old) Castle Rock Verdin (or you can name her) (CR Robin X Stranger) $700
(1.5 yr old) Quaking Canopy Hamsa Hand $800
Bucks
MadHatter X One Eyed Willy $500
Leviathan X Dexter $450
Diggle - Same breeding as Josephine, just younger. $450
https://www.quakingcanopyfarm.com/josephine
Old Washoe PK McLaren Sennna $250
https://genetics.adga.org/GoatDetail.aspx?RegNumber=D002145798
A Note About Kid Prices…
If 1 doe eats about a flake of hay per day, and there are about 20 flakes in a bale, and a good quality bale costs about $25, then one doe eats $456 in hay per year. That’s just hay. Dairy does require about a pound of grain for every two pounds of milk produced. If a doe produces 900 pounds of milk, she needs 450 pounds of grain. Good quality dairy grain averages about $30 per 50 pounds, or about $270 for that doe. Does require supplementation to match the demand on their bodies to produce babies and milk, if we provide the bare minimum of a dose of Replamin every 2 weeks for the year, each doe requires about $30 in just Replamin. In addition, loose minerals, kelp, Zinpro, selenium yeast, and copper sulphate add to our supplement cost per doe to keep them at their very best. Each doe gets blood work for bioscreening against CAE, CL, and Johnnes. After supplies, shipping, and lab fees through WADDL it averages $28 per doe. And those are just some of the per doe values that go into a kid being born alive and ready for you to take home from our farm.
The care of a doe for one year, at minimum, costs $456 + $270 + $30 + $28 = $784
Linear Appraisal costs us up to $500 per year. Registrations cost us up to $900 per year. DHIR costs us up to $300 per year. And each show averages us about $500 in gas, supplies, and entry fees (not including food and copious amounts of coffee for us attendees!)
These values don’t include the cost of heat for babies in the winter or fans in the summer, coccidia preventative, vaccines, medication and vet bills in emergency or sick situations, bedding and barn care, fly control (here’s a clue, we spend over $1000 per year on fly control alone), or fence and shelter upkeep.
By the time a year has passed and a doe presents us with her brand new kiddos, and she’s racked up her Quaking Canopy Farm B&B bill of a minimum $784, we then price kids at a point we feel is as fair as we can while still affording to care for our herd for the next year so we get to have baby goats here in another year.
If a doe presents us with 2 wethers who leave as pets at $125 each, she’s a bit behind on her bill for the year and we’re keeping our fingers crossed for does the following year! And in case you’re wondering, no, I don’t keep tallies on what each doe “owes” me. This is just an example of the cost of raising these goats to help explain how I price kids from my farm.
Doe kids and bucks start at $700. I add an additional $50 for accomplishments of their mothers: DHIA records on the high end for the breed, AR or ST or milking stars, SG designation, LA scores in the Good or Excellent categories, and CH wins. A kid from a dam who is appraised at E90, has her SG designation, has CH legs, and produces 900 pounds in a lactation could be priced as $700 + $50 + $50 + $50 + $50. I always have discretion on final prices, but hopefully this formula gives some insight.
The table below serves to show EXAMPLES of how I come to the price on a kid. Does and bucks are always priced the same as I don’t sell bucks I wouldn’t keep in my own herd. These Examples are not gospel as each doe used in this table is likely to obtain more accomplishments and as such the price for a kid from her will evolve.
