Meat Goats for Sale

Slaughter weight goats (30-60lbs) are available for individual sale in May and June only. Prices vary based on market trends and other factors. I do not offer slaughtering services, but you can slaughter here for an additional fee.

If you are a bulk buyer I am open to competetive offers on partial or entire kid crops.

☎ Call or 🗨 text for current pricing and availability.

Educational Opportunities

For city folk

If you or your family want to see what a commerical meat animal production system looks like, learn the details of how your food is produced, how grazing lands are managed, I'd be excited to host you for a tour. If you would like to see/hold/play with baby goats, March or April are the best bets. Please note that this is not a petting zoo or a pumpkin patch, this is a real, working, for-profit livestock operation.

For fellow agriculture folk

If you are new to goats or commercial animal agriculture, or are considering getting into either or both of those two, I'd be happy to help you out. From a basic farm tour, to a more involved mentorship or internship, I would encourage you to reach out!

I do not charge for educational opportunities.

☎ Call or 🗨 text if you are interested.

Operations

I have an overall low-input philosophy. Animals are raised on pasture through spring, summer, and fall with no additional feed. They are kept on corn stalks in the winter with some supplemental feed. Females give birth with minimal supervision on drylots in early March and move to pasture with their kids in early April. Animals are not regularly de-wormed and receive only miminimal vaccinations and hands-on care. Kid crop is weaned and sold in early July.

These animals work for me, I don't work for them.

I have a very strong focus on being a commerical meat goat operation: I don't market breeding stock or pets, and I don't worry about colors or pedigrees. Mothers are rigerously performance tested for lbs of kids produced at weaning and I continue to retain and build better genetics.

I currently run 50 head of broodstock and expect to wean at least 100 head of kids every year. I have a mix of Kiko and Spanish breeding.

About Me

Olive Branch Goats was first established in 1996 when I (John Wallace) got my first goat as a 4-H project, and within a few years I had a commercial meat goat herd. I come from a multi-generational farming and ranching background with a special emphasis on small ruminants (sheep and goats). I don't know everything, but I do have some experience and am happy to share what I have found that works and doesn't work.