[john2708]

hi can any one help me i need to sell my the boy kids as they were no planned and i dont have the room  any suggestions on how to sell them cheers john

[little blue]

websites like the allgoats or even Preloved might help... be sure to say that potential owners will need a holding number etc.
are they castrated?

[john2708]

i have them on pre loved and no there not castrated

[little blue]

too late, but might have meant they would sell better...
 
g**gle "goats for sale" to get some ideas of other websites.
  have you tried the pygmy goat club?

[Anke]

I don't want to upset you, but there is NO market for male goats, especially not entire ones (unless he's got a brilliant pedigree). A lot of the males sold for pets (castrated ones) will end up either in a sanctuary or more likely will be slaughtered, but probably not in the legal way. That said there are legal dealers for goat meat around, however you would need to be near one of the larger cities.

I would not advise to sell to someone through the web, dealers looking for cheap goats to sell into the ethnic market will know exactly how to answer your questions....

If you have a larger breed my advice would be to raise them for a while (castrated), then see if the local abattoir takes them and eat them yourself - the meat is excellent for curries and/or other ways of slowly stewing. We have just done that with one of our males from last year. The carcass was small enough for us to handle/cut up ourselves. However in terms of amounts of meat to cost of raising, sheep/lambs are way cheaper to do.

Pygmies are abviously different, but I think they would also need to be castrated.

[Brucklay]

Pygmy's make great pets - yes you need a holding number and a flock number, boy's, especially unregistered boys will need to be castrated - and this can still be done surgically by your vet - once done I would like to think you could find a home for them - best of luck

[john2708]

well im going to get the castrated they are very good looking chaps and if they dont sell looks like ill have to keep them i cant see them come to any harm

[Roxy]

There are a lot of animals - not just goats - looking for new homes now.  People are feeling the pinch, what with jobs being lost etc.

Unfortunately, intact male goats are hard to rehome, as their smell is not the best smell in the world, and to be honest, I find the pygmy billy more whiffy than the larger breeds, not sure why, maybe because they breed all year!!

Only suggestion I can make is an animal sanctuary, but they are all full, and may not take intact billies ...but you could try.

Not sure about eating them either - if they are old enough to mate, their smell would affect the meat?

I have a sanaan billy, who was used for breeding, and then castrated quite late in life.  He suffered no ill effects from the op, and lost his smell of course.  

[Roxy]

I think thats your best plan.,

Looking on the bright side, I reduced my goat numbers last year, and managed to find homes for a nice looking intact BA billy, and two BT castrated billies. I advertised on all goats and also preloved, and had a lot of enquiries.  must say though, I had some iffy phone calls, and the homes they went to, I delivered the goats and did follow up phone calls to check.

[plumseverywhere]

I was looking through preloved, I think it was, for a nanny. while i was there I am sure I saw people looking for 'pet goats' as companions or for children's farms. now I could have imagined it, or been under the influence of plum wine (!) but double check and then of course you'd need to visit the place to make sure it wasn't a scam to get goats I guess.
I had 2 castrated boys, now just one. they make great companion goats and our reggie is a little star!! also you could contact the harness goat society, they sometimes know of people needing wethers.

[princesspiggy]

what breed are they?

[little blue]

pygmies

[princesspiggy]

pygmies

i would think theyd sell well if they were neutered. they were a good hundred pounds each up here when i enquired. try a rare breed auction while theyr still little, last year at our auction, there was only 1 goat kid and she/he went for well over a hundred gns cos everyone wanted a baby goat...