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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: chickenfeed on March 15, 2012, 07:11:23 am

Title: tuesday april 3rd
Post by: chickenfeed on March 15, 2012, 07:11:23 am

will see 11 in kid sannens go through melton mowbray market in kid to a boer x tog due to kid may.

i have just read this on the latest market report may be of interest to someone.

Title: Re: tuesday april 3rd
Post by: countrywoman on March 15, 2012, 10:57:31 am

I have to say I am not in favour of goats - and pregnant ones, especially - being sold at markets.  Hope they find a nice, knowledgeable buyer!

Title: Re: tuesday april 3rd
Post by: salopman on March 15, 2012, 11:49:39 am

Thats exactly what I was thinking - hope they go gentle with em

Title: Re: tuesday april 3rd
Post by: chickenfeed on March 15, 2012, 02:53:20 pm

very very rare they are seen at this market.

personally i would not buy any goat from a market but some times whole groups of animals turn up there because a owner has died or the farm has been sold so there is a possibility they could set someone up with a herd.

Title: Re: tuesday april 3rd
Post by: jinglejoys on March 15, 2012, 09:36:13 pm

I often used to visit Melton to see if there were any goats of the type I was looking for they used to have about 50 at a time :)

Title: Re: tuesday april 3rd
Post by: chickenfeed on March 18, 2012, 07:32:26 pm

only seen goats a couple of times last year we get there every couple of weeks or so,