Thread: Goat hunting?

Goats fall in and out of favour with farmers all the time. One year they're worth a little money, the next they're worth nothing....however the sharp farmers out there have done the maths and soon realise that the couple of a grand for 50 goats doesn't really stack up against a flock of a thousand sheep getting rejected for sheep measles (goats are a major carrier) at the works, and the thousands in dollars worth of damage done to fences each year by the goats pushing through the wires and popping the batterns, and the best grass tips being taken by the goats etc...

It's the old story, do some homework on who the sharp operators are in your area, do the leg work, offer something back, prove you're trustworthy and you'll be surprised how doors will open.

Kj

Ps the kaimais have never had a lot of goats. The coromandel only has low numbers currently, most Waikato blocks are under sustained management, so on public land goats are in pretty low numbers. However funding for goat control is getting reduced, so in a few years I'd suspect there will be a lot more goats if things don't change. This is not great for the bush we all love and enjoy so much, as goats are only bad news for the bush.