What is the most profitable goat breed?

Answer 1

I would guess Boers, but I'm in Georgia which has a very high hispanic population, so there is a big demand for meat. I think the bigger question is do you want to go the all pure-bred route, or the fixer-up route. Purebreds are down to reasonable prices now where a very pretty purebred might bring $200 at a sale, and 4 or 5 years ago, it'd bring $700. There is a lot more of them, and it isn't really an "alternative" breed anymore. What we've always done with goats and cows, is we go to the sell and we look for value. We don't buy the beautiful ones that get what they are worth. We buy the ones that are probably 50% pure, or just really look like the breed, and they are a little dirty, young, or skinny, etc. If you have a good pasture, and it doesn't take much to be much better than where these people are keeping these animals, then you can make these animals beautiful in a couple weeks. So buy as many as you can in spring and summer, sell them around Thanksgiving and Christmas... get a vast majority percentage of females and steers, and get you a lot of babies, and clean steer males. You'll then do well. You have to keep them well wormed, feet good, etc. Goats can have a tendency to die like goldfish, and if you don't take care of them, all your profits will be gone with a lot of dead goats.