Muslim holidays want blemish free - no castrated, no broken horns yearling preferred for Festival of Sacrifice. some older accepted.
Islamic New Year -preferably Mutton - no special wt.
Ramadan- weaned but have all milk teeth. Lambs 60-80 Goats 60 preferred 40 - 120 acceptable.
End of Ramadan 60-80# lambs 60# goats
Birth of Prophet- no size recommendation
Passover- Milk fed Lambs 30-55#
Rosh Hashanah front quarter lambs weighing 60-100#
Chanukkah - Kosher slaughter young milk fed lambs and kids
Western roman Easter - Lambs milk fed 30-45# goats 20-40 milk fed
Orthodox Easter Lambs 40-55# Goats 25-50# milk fed
Thanksgiving & Christmas depends on ethnic group
Hispanic market prefers 20-35# milk fed kids for cabrito and larger for Seco De Chivo or Cinco De Mayo cabrito and larger goats.
Caribbean Holidays in month of August prefer larger goats
4th of July cabrito kids with 1 or no adult teeth
Chinese market 60-80 live wt and good health goats
Sometimes I think we wait to get more weight and we would do better selling them younger IF we hit these special holidays.
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