SEKGA Sale 2015-Perry Georgia

It’s been a whirlwind around here the last few weeks. The SEKGA sale this last weekend was fantastic.  The stable of goats offered, top to bottom, was probably the best caliber I’ve seen at a sale.  Before the auction I was telling my wife that I thought there were a huge number of $1,000+ does.  A friend saw me looking and asked me if I had a few picked out  I told him that picking out a few was tough, but I had picked out about 15 that I wanted, just couldn’t narrow it down.

As I said, the quality was high, and the buyers’ interest was, too.  The average price for the 100% NZ does was over $1,400.  I haven’t seen an average that high before.  As a side note, the NKR sale two weeks ago also brought very high prices.  We were only buying this week but we’re able to get two high quality does that will be ready for breeding this fall.  Also I noticed that the high selling doe this year was out of a daughter of Blue’s Son, the buck we plan to use in this year’s fall flush. We bought Lady Raven from Brent Ballinger, look at her pedigree going back.  Her twin sister is already on our farm and has done a great job, so we feel like we know what we are getting here.  The other we bought was a daughter of Spring’s Merlin brought by the Seleskas.  Since their family does such a fantastic job running the sale, I should bring home their best goat. Gratitude, you know.  Merlin puts tremendous length and depth of body on his does.  You’ll notice that her dam goes back to Sunboy Rotan 150, a Betula Hills Moneymaker son.  Spring’s Foxy Girl has excellent conformation and has very nice coloring, too. One thing that was interesting to us is that on several occasions we were bidding against a phone bidder.  Afterwards I asked who I was bidding against and I found out it was one of the top breeders in the industry. So that made me feel like we bidding on the right goats!

The high prices that we are seeing this summer make me think that there is an upswing in the Kiko breeding stock market right now.  We feel very fortunate to have built most of our foundation herd.  If you are thinking about getting into Kiko goats, know that the word is getting out and demand is going up.  It’s a great time to be getting into goats.  Remember that the U.S. still imports over 50% on the goat meat consumed here in the US.  There is great room for expansion.  The buyers would rather eat fresh, domestic goat over frozen, imported meat, but we aren’t producing enough.  We need more meat goats!