By Johan Norval
An outstanding price for champion breeding stock and foreign buyers underlined the lively interest in local meat goats.
The auction was held on 2 May after the South African Boer Goat Breeders’ Society’s biennial world championship, which was held during the Bloem Show.
Valley, a ram owned by Abraham and Lukas Burger of Griekwastad, fetched the top price of R300 000. He was one of more than 900 goats entered for the Boer goat section at the show and was named champion in the six-tooth class. The buyers were Jacques Potgieter and Joubert Horn of Vryburg.
Another goat from the Burgers was the most expensive Boer goat ewe at the show and fetched R75 000. Ahmed Aldarmaki, an online buyer from the United Arab Emirates, snapped her up.
These outstanding prices increased the average price of the 14 Boer goat rams to R67 062,05. The average price of the 23 stud ewes was R27 652 and that of the four Kalahari Red stud ewes R22 000. The single Kalahari Red ram fetched R25 000.
Vleissentraal Port Elizabeth presented the auction in collaboration with SwiftVee, and André van Zyl was the auctioneer.
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