Sir I am new to this but plan to open a mixed use farm with goatery as part of this. I have followed this and other threads on goat farming. I want to do farming for meat, but will select a breed like betel / Osmanabadi/ Sirohi Does with Boer Bucks so that there is also some additional milk production. There are few questions to which I have not found an answer in any thread (or anywhere in internet) and would highly appreciate a reply/clarification:
1) Male Kids we keep for meat, but what about female kids? Some we can keep to replenish breeding stock, but what to do with the rest?
2) Is female goat used anywhere for meat purpose? I know its eaten in Caribbean, but is it eaten anywhere in India, and is there a market for it?
3) What is the productive life span of above breeds (betel / Osmanabadi/ Sirohi) and after that life-span what to do with the breeding females?
4) Does it make better business sense to sell live goat, or to invest in small scale abattoir and sell meat?
Thank you in advance and hope to hear about these issues from your expertise point of view?
Regards,
Aditya B