Carol, This may be a regional thing around Waco because: 1. West Texas has moved from wool varieties to hair varieties mostly Dorper and Royal White because of meat. 2 I have sold livestock guardian pups to south TX. This rancher runs an grass fed lamb market and brings his processed lamb as far as Austin Farmer's Markets @ $7.25/pound. He runs 700+ head of American Blackbelly ewes with Dorper Rams. 3. The boer goat market is strong all over TX and the US. 4. The Central Texas markets, Fredericksburg, Lometa, Goldthwaite, Lampasas, Hamilton, are all good sheep markets for hair sheep including Blackbellies. In Fredericksburg, I have seen good ewes with lambs go for $100 a head (not a pair). So from what I am seeing here I would have to say that the prices in Waco are local or just because there isn't enough Blackbellies in the area to draw out the interest. In that case I would consume my animals or sell private treaty. We have another incentive for good prices here at least private treaty and that is there are a lot of herding dog events around Austin and San Antonio. Those folks like the flightiness of the Blackbelly to train on or trial on. Hope this helps some. Rhonda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol J. Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [blackbelly] Lousy Waco Prices
> Do you have any idea why Texas ranchers are selling their sheep and moving > to goats? I'm giving a presentation at the North American Hair Sheep > Symposium in San Angelo, TX October 6-8 and when I read your comment I > thought it might be interesting to hear your insight so that I can perhaps > address this concern in my presentation. Do you think this is just a > regional (Waco) thing or do you see this trend in other parts of Texas? > > Carol > > At 01:10 PM 9/19/2005 -0500, you wrote: > >Goats, goats and more goats are what the former TX barbado ranchers have. > >A few are still ridding themselves of all hair sheep. > > Carol Elkins > Critterhaven--Registered Barbados Blackbelly Hair Sheep > (no shear, no dock, no fuss) > Pueblo, Colorado > http://www.critterhaven.biz > T-shirts, mugs, caps, and more at the > Barbados Blackbelly Online Store http://www.cafepress.com/blackbellysheep > > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the Blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info mailing list > Visit the list's homepage at Blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info@lists.blackbellysheep.info > http://lists.blackbellysheep.info/listinfo.cgi/blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.25/102 - Release Date: 9/14/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.25/102 - Release Date: 9/14/2005 _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info mailing list Visit the list's homepage at Blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info@lists.blackbellysheep.info http://lists.blackbellysheep.info/listinfo.cgi/blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info
