We appreciate all our customers and if your local market has recently closed we welcome you to our sale.  Or if you are not happy where you are we welcome you to come give us a try.  We thank you for spreading the word about our sale.

Sat. turned into a nice day and Sunday was beautiful.  We need it to dry a little so we can get livestock out and cut some hay. Turn out was light with 171 head but a good crowd for as much as was going on this weekend.  We had some Angora goats and some milk goats as well as boer and pygmies, quite a few feeder kids and 1 registered family, some hair sheep and a few wool sheep. We would like to thank our crew for holding down the fort while we went to our grandson Nick’s graduation at OSU.  Nick graduated from OSU with honors in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering.  We didn’t see much of the sale but looked like pretty good stock and looked like quite a bit of stuff in the consignment sale.   A couple people that said they were coming didn’t make it tho and we had people looking for what they were supposed to bring.  Nick with Grandma and Grandpa

The average price takes ALL into account not just the best ones.  Weight, amount of meat on the frame, health, looks, market demand, age, and color even makes a difference. A nanny’s bag makes a difference.  It is an auction and what ever someone will give is what it sells for.

Goat and hair sheep are sold by head.  Wool sheep sold by the pound converted to CWT or hundred weight. CWT 192= 1.92 a pound.  Pairs can be one nanny or ewe and 1 or several kids or lambs.  Pygmy listing is for the small goat breeds including Nigerian Dwarf breed.

Market Report on 2 pages

Market Transaction averages below.  This is an average/ by species/ by sex/ no head/ ave weight/ average price per CWT/ ave price by head/ best price at weight.- this page

Market summery by species/by sex/weight range/ hi - low- average, no of head -on next page.

Market report for May 11. 2019

I made a couple corrections to hair sheep.  I found some that had been checked in as wool but sold by head so I knew there was some kind of error.  Apparently someone in check in doesn’t know the difference between wool and hair.

From the sale 2 weeks ago Billy kids were up about 20 cents a pound and Nanny kids up about 30 cents a pound.  Billies were down about 26 cents and Nannies were down about 16 cents.  Can’t tell you the quality since I wasn’t there to see them.  Pygmies were up 23 cents and with only 1 little black spanish x milk wether it was not a good test of the market.  Hair sheep ewes up 3 cents, rams steady, ram lambs up 25 cents.  No hair wethers or ewe hair lambs this sale.

Occasionally we have someone who wants to sell a Llama or Pyrenees or Anatolia or crossed Pyr/Ana guard dogs and we will sell them.  We do not sell other mixed breeds of dogs. The other common used guard animal is a donkey and we do not sell those.

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