There are benefits to leasing bucks as well as owning your own. Leasing allows you to choose from a number of ranches and really vary your breeding program. It also means the cost of upkeep over the year is eliminated. As any experienced breeder will tell you, your investment can vanish in the blink of an eye. Losses happen and there is no guarantee your expensive, special buck will still be around next year when breeding season arrives.
Ownership gives you the ability to observe the buck year in and year out. How does he do in wet, humid periods in terms of parasite resistance. Can he produce healthy offspring from does you believe will produce your goals. The question of where is my next buck coming from is answered.
Owning allows you to market your farm based upon the attributes of the buck. While leasing let's you take advantage of the marketing someone else has done.
We have tried both ways. Both are workable and have advantages. The best part of leasing is you don't have to figure out a way to keep the bucks in their pen until you are ready to start breeding as opposed to when they think it's time to start. In the end, it's just a matter of choice as to leasing or purchasing.
When you lease a buck, you're not afraid of getting some disease you don't have in your flock?
Posted by: Andree Laprise | November 20, 2010 at 07:26 AM
That is a risk. When we were leasing bucks, we tried to get them from people who had good goats and lived in a similar climate.
Posted by: www.postoak.us | June 05, 2012 at 09:11 AM