Thread: New Here got my licence this month Goat Problem

If @OPO is correct then getting a supply contract from a processor and MPI supplier license would be the way to go. You’ll get shown how to dress animals correctly for presentation to a meat processor and make some good coin to finance your hobbies/interests. Down here $5/kg is about the best money you get for head/neck shot goats. Average dressed weight thru processor here is 10kg supposedly. Doesn’t take long to offset cost of MPI certification, which is ongoing.

hells bells..we got not much more than $6 a GOAT back in the 80s...... still the beer tasted fine.

live and healthy loaded onto the truck - they pay cartage and the price is best for 7 to 18 kg carcass weight. Getting them into the yards is where you'll earn your keep. hunting them you think they're not that bright but mustering them there'll be a few that'll try to outsmart you every ridge, spur and gateway. might pay to have a rifle handy for the ringleaders...

Just checked through some records - $5.70 a kg about 10 months ago. not sure about the latest schedule.

If you just want them off the properties approach one of the outfits who specialize in goat mustering, they normally go 50-50, shoot the stubborn, hard to get at a later date. Better to give the musterer's first shot. Can point you in the right direction if required.

Originally Posted by tetawa

If you just want them off the properties approach one of the outfits who specialize in goat mustering, they normally go 50-50, shoot the stubborn, hard to get at a later date. Better to give the musterer's first shot. Can point you in the right direction if required.

Yep it seems a shame to leave them to rot if they can be mustered.
I have a couple of contacts too. Likely the same guys you know.
One will take them live and farm them on at his place. Doesn't pay as much as the works but he will take them away and deal with keeping them under control at his place.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

I was about to post that same statement Ryan. Definite animal welfare issues with some buyers.
Wounding with a 22 would probably be more humane in some cases.

Banned the Nepalese guys from buying goats and butchering them at home on our farm until they could prove they could sharpen a knife or get a firearms license. Also used to work for an outfit in Canterbury that gave all us farm managers a couple of beasts a season to butcher and share among the staff, we all used the local home kill guy except the one fella that was from Egypt as he had to yell and scream and spill the blood of the animal towards Mecca or some shit and they allowed him to do it himself. I was nearby when he did this one time and the bellowing from the animal and the screaming and general fucking shitshow of an operation made me sick to my stomach. MPI were notified ( along with a raft of other shit that big corporate were up to...)

Sweet guys from what I've read I'll save up for a 223 or 243 and I'll stick to the rabbits and the turkeys with the 22lr cheers!!!

Originally Posted by Jakey

Sweet guys from what I've read I'll save up for a 223 or 243 and I'll stick to the rabbits and the turkeys with the 22lr cheers!!!

7.62 x 39 is also a good cal for goats and deer at close range. Good luck!

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

hells bells..we got not much more than $6 a GOAT back in the 80s...... still the beer tasted fine.

$6 a goat was good easy money back in the 80’s. A lot of people , if not most around here, were earning less than $10/hr. Pint handle of beer cost 23-27 cents early 80’s. Deer were still fetching around $125 ea at chiller from memory. Easy to make more on a weekend than a fortnight’s pay At work.

For a while in the 80's goats were worth a fortune - black feral nannies around 150, ginger were worth heaps less but people sill made pretty good money mustering wild goats... a mate and i were up the wanganui river once back then and near pipiriki i saw a big blackberry bush on the side of the road moving a lot so got my mate to stop the truck - turns out there was a little maori kid about 9 or 10 in there hanging on to a big ginger buck ... the boy was adamant he didn't want any help as his mates had gone to get his dad and a truck to load the goat into. i offered to tie the goat up for him but no he didn't want any help at all . tough little bugger as he was getting ripped up everytime the goat got its breath back. we drove off in due course but i did wonder if the goat won the day or that tough little kid

welcome to forum
As most people here have already suggested get a 223 or try and round them up
i live in Hamilton if you need a hand controlling them and don't mind someone else tagging along with you

Good luck, You have me envious with those pictures. My local private spot for goats got cleaned out last year and they are only just starting to come back. The Farmer relies on maintaining a small herd to keep the blackberry and gorse etc under control on the steeper stuff. Its a run off for an organic dairy farm. I used to take up to 8-12 a year to stop the herd size getting too big.
I've also had bad experiences shooting goats with a 22rf. 22 Mag as a minimum. stuff like 222/223, 7.62x39 would be ideal,
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