Planning a 50 doe Sirohi goat farm for breeding and meat. Want to understand realistic costs, returns and when it breaks even.
What is the profit and break-even for a 50 goat (Sirohi) breeding farm?
PPrakash Rawat7mo ago · 305 views
7 Answers
🌾Farmer.in Krishi TeamExpert ✓7mo ago
Returns from goat farming vary widely with kidding rate, mortality and market price, so use ranges rather than fixed numbers. The main investment is the breeding stock plus a simple raised shed and fencing, and the main running cost is feed and fodder, which is much lower if you can graze or grow your own. Income comes from selling kids, usually at six to twelve months, and from culled adults; a 50 doe flock can produce a sizeable number of kids a year if kidding and survival are good. Many semi intensive goat farms reach operational break-even within the first couple of years, but profit depends heavily on keeping kid mortality low through vaccination, deworming and clean housing. Start with proven breeding does, keep records, and grow the flock from your own kids rather than buying heavily.
DDevi Singh6mo ago
Kid mortality is what makes or breaks goat farming. Once I sorted out vaccination and warm dry housing for newborns, my numbers improved and the farm started paying. Grazing keeps my feed cost low.
GGanpat Lal Devasi6mo ago
Sirohi do well here and are hardy, but do not overstock for the grazing you have, or your feed cost shoots up and the margin disappears. I started with a smaller number than planned and grew the flock from my own kids, which was far cheaper and safer than buying fifty animals at once.
KKishan Singh Rao5mo ago
Time your sales for festival demand if you can, the price for good bucks jumps then. Keeping records of which does give twins and raise their kids well let me cull the poor ones and breed from the best, which slowly improved my whole flock and earnings.
GGovind Singh Rao5mo ago
Change your breeding buck every couple of years or you end up mating him to his own daughters and the kids get weak. I share or swap a good buck with another farmer to keep fresh blood in the flock cheaply. Sirohi are hardy but inbreeding undoes that quickly.
HHema Ram Devasi4mo ago
Feed and water cost can quietly eat the margin if you depend on bought feed, so I time my biggest grazing on the common land and crop stubble after harvest, and only feed concentrate to pregnant does and growing kids. Growing a little fodder on the bunds also helped. The flocks that buy everything struggle.
MMangi Lal Rebari4mo ago
Do not ignore deworming and the foot care, lame or wormy does do not raise good kids and the losses add up silently. My vet set me a simple deworming routine and the whole flock looked better and the kids grew faster. Healthy stock is what actually makes goat farming pay, not just the number of animals.