Unborn kids can be reserved with a $50 deposit, and reservations will be taken on a first-deposit, first-reserve basis only- NO RESERVATIONS WITH OUT A DEPOSIT- NO EXCEPTIONS- TELLING ME YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A POSSIBLE KID IS NOT A DEPOSIT. (Why am I yelling? Because too many people seem to think that this policy does not apply to them, and honestly I'm getting a wee bit frustrated. I'm a pretty easy going person and want to keep it that way). This deposit is non-refundable unless the kid of your choice is not born, at which time you can choose to roll over your deposit to another kidding, or have your deposit refunded. Buck kids out of first fresheners will automatically be wethered (neutered) and available as pets for $125. Wethers make wonderful pets as they don't have the hormonal cycles of does, nor the pungent smell of bucks, and they can be shown in 4-H and at NDGA shows. All kids are disbudded between the ages of 4-8 days. If you would like a goat that will grow up to have horns, I am happy to not disbud them for you- however, since there is a limited market for horned nigerians, these kids must be paid for in full by the time they are five days old, otherwise, I will go ahead and disbud them.
All kids born here at Castle Rock Farm are automatically put on bottles- this helps to keep kids friendly, and over many years of trying many different systems of raising kids, I have found that this works best for my size of farm and milking herd. In order to make sure your kids are friendly, you should bring them home as early as possible to spend extra time with them making them friendly. I only spend extra time with the kids I am planning on retaining- I don't have time to make everyone friendly and get all of the other work I need to do on the farm done. Reserved kids must be picked up by 21 days of
age at the latest- I prefer that they be picked up within one week of birth. Boarding charges of $2.50 per kid per day will be applied to those still at the farm
after 21 days
of age; reservations on bottle raised wethers may be forfeited at
this time at my discretion, and the kid(s) offered for sale. Reserved
kids still at the farm at two months of age will
no longer be considered reserved and will be offered for sale as well. Non-reserved kids will be held for two weeks from the date that purchaser tells me that they want that animal to arrange for transport; after that time, boarding charges of $2.50 per day per kid will be applied.
All kids must be paid for in full before they leave the farm, and all transportation costs are the responsibility of the purchaser. We will happily bring purchased animals to shows we are attending at no extra charge.
Not every combination turns out the way we plan- i.e. the combination
of two fabulous animals can sometimes still result in a pet-quality animal. If this happens,
the price for such an animal will be adjusted accordingly. Bucks and
does will be priced the same, as we will only sell bucks
from top quality mothers- if I wouldn't use a particular buck in my
own breeding program, he won't stay a buck. I feel that there are already
way too many bucks out there from only so-so does (or first fresheners, and you just can't tell too much about how a first freshener's udder is going to hold up over time), and part of being
a breeder is working to improve the breed. A buck can be the parent of more kids in one breeding season than any given doe will be over her lifetime, which is why your bucks should always be of better quality than your does. Probably only the top 10% of does are worthy of keeping a buck kid out of, and we've made the decision to wether the vast majority of our bucklings. Sometimes I do change my mind about future
breedings listed here, but will only do so if there are no deposits on
kids
already. |