This message just came across the boards yesterday, and since someone was so kind to email me how full of **** I was that prices like these existed on purebred animals with DHIR and Appraisal scores, here you are ;) There are dairies like this all over the country thats kids are a by product and the milk is the main money source, so they want their kids homed before they have to feed them to much milk. A wonderful way to start with clean productive stock for auction barn money, and the more you buy the less it costs! Vicki

Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:20:53 -0600 From: "Randall Taylor" Subject: for sale, kids

Sales lists for coming kids are ready now. Purebred Alpine, purebred LaMancha, purebred and American Nubian, purebred Saanen, purebred Toggenburg. All buck kids are $100 at three weeks of age or less, doe kids are $75 to $125. Kids will be disbudded, tattooed and have application for registration. Kids for 4-H projects will have registration papers provided. Dams are on DHIR test and are Linear Appraised. Doe kids will be raised on heat treated colostrum and pasteurized milk, as will buck kids with deposits on them. Other bucks may be allowed to nurse.

We have some Alpines due this month, other breeds start in January, through May.

Debbie Taylor, Bluff Top Dairy Goats, 501 331-2724 498 Bluff Top Road Dover AR 72837 blufftop@ipa.net

-- Vicki McGaugh TX (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), December 06, 2001

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I've been to Debbie's farm and she has some really nice goats and is a very nice person. The veiw from her farm is outta this world.

-- sherry (chickadee259@yahoo.com), December 06, 2001.

Hi,

Those are really good prices on registered stock. Do you know anything about shipping kids? Or is that not done? I've only shipped horses and so don't know if shipping doelings works well or not and how it is done - what type carrier, etc?

Thanks

-- Cindy (colawson@mindspring.com), December 08, 2001.

Yes shipping kids is actually the norm and we were just talking about it on The Goat Shed (msn.communities.com) I have only used Delta Dash myself for flying kids, I like the counter to counter much better than kids flying in baggage. There are also haulers who will haul older stock, or kids short hauls, because most will not feed bottles. There is a east and west coast haul right after Christmas, and don't forget that you can't fly them after it gets hot out! So get all your plans made for shipping early kids before June. With dairies all over the US deals like this are pretty easy to find. Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh TX (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), December 08, 2001.