Buying of goats from market
Article on Buying of 1-2 goats from your local goat market.
1.First of all u must have to decide which goat breed do you want to buy from market coz market contains mix type of goat breed.U must have to know its specifications means how its body,ears,nose,height,weight,colour,toes,tail,hairs,teeths and tongue.U should easily distinguish between your breed and other breed.
For example,you want to buy osmanabadi breed,then u should easily distinguish between osmanabadi pure and hybrid osmanabadi breed,jamunapari or sirohi.
2.The market contains 90% of useless goats.The goat farmers are selling them coz that goat is not yielding milk or kids or have disease problem.Suppose if u are a goat farmer and u have 10 goats on your farm and u are selling one goat out of 10 ,coz u want some money,so which goat u will sell.Definetly the goat which yields less,coz u r not geeting to much profit from it.Same case with the farmers.Only 10% goats are the best breeding goats.So u shouldn't buy 20-30 goats at a time.Buy it in steps.
Now the farmers have become very clever,before selling them their goat in market,they wash them properly and puts some hair oil on their skin and massages them,so the goat shines and looks very attractive and the buyer buys them at any cost without knowing the disease or other problems that goat has.By Buying of this goat you will definetly be in loss.
So for more profit u have to buy healthy disease free goat.
U will not know the problem(disease,milking ability,kidding ability) that goat has only just by seeing it.Even a veteirnary doctor cant say its milking ability or kidding ability just by seeing it,he has to breed goat in his farm for atleast 4-5 days then he will knows that.The milking ability is known only when its starts milking and same with kidding.U can detect minor diseases even major diseases are not detected just by seeing the goat.
Means when u are buying goat,from goat market u have to buy it blindly and now its your fate wheter the goat yeilds or not.
Here are some of the tips of to buy a healthy goat.
*look for the standing appearance of goat.She should stand properly on four legs and walk with no difficulty.Back legs should be of slightly slanting.
*above the nostril there are little little drops of water,the diseased goat has dry nostril.
*last 2 ribs can be easily seen from behind
*both the mamary glands should be of same size not uneven.Most of the farmers keeps their goat unmilking for 1 day before selling them in market.Due to this the mamary glands gets enlarge in size,and the buyer gets easily fooled by seeing such huge mamary glands.So beware of it.
*goat should move her tail and ears freely.
*look for teeths and tongue
and around mouth if she has some symptoms of mastits.
*look for skin,for itching or has any injury or dog bite.
*place some fodder infront of goat and look wheter she eats or not.A goat with high fever and influenza doesnt eats that.
*look for normal stool(pills,droplets).Loose faeces shows signs of endotexmia,diarhhea.
*ask some questions to seller when its vaccinated,how much kids its yield,how much time got previously pregnant,how are the kids born.The seller must have to answer all questions without any hesistations.This proves that the goat is of his own and not steal or buyed from other farmer for comission or cut.
3.Agents/brookers
When u enter the market,lots of people will ask u what u want?And These are the agents/brookers/dalals
They will tell you that they have lot of knowledge regarding goats and will provide u the best breeding goat at low cost.But all is fake,they just want their cut or comission.They take cut from two sides one from you and the other from farmer.So dont look at them and dont take them with you while buying a goat.Some agents wont take any cut from you,but after selling goat they takes it from farmer.So beware of brookers/agents while buying a goat.
More updates will post u soon.
With regards,
dr.Shaikh
www.goatfarm.20m.com
smymbbs5372@rediffmail.com
