What do Boer goats cost? Are prices still high?
Boer goat prices are still relatively high but are approaching what you’d pay for a quality registered Angora or registered dairy goat. They are nowhere near the steep amounts paid during the winter and spring of 1994, when a bit of buying “frenzy” took hold of some goat breeders and exotics traders. Before the frenzy hit, back in August 1993, the cost of buying a goat at an auction in New Zealand and transporting it to the United States was about $8,000 to $10,000. At the time, people suggested that buyers who spent $10,000 bringing in a Boer goat might ought to spend some time in the loony bin. But those early buyers saw the potential worth of the breed. By March 1994, newborn Boer kids were selling for $7,000 to $10,000 each. In one 1994 auction, $80,000 was reportedly paid for a full-blood adult buck. Except for an unanswered private treaty offer of more than $100,000 for a stud, $80,000 was about the highest price paid in this country for a Boer goat. About mid summer of 1994, the
