Highlights from the Buck Sale
Pennsylvania’s 28th Performance Tested Ram Lamb and Meat Goat Buck Sale
produced record-breaking results. The sale was held on Aug. 5 at the
Samuel E. Hayes Jr. Livestock Evaluation Center. This year’s sale
averaged $372 per animal for 126 rams, meat goat bucks and invitational
ewes and does.
Twenty-three full-blood Boer bucks averaged $561 per head. Starting the
sale was the high-indexing buck, a consignment from Victor S. Martin of
Ephrata, PA. This top-performing buck sold for $1,100. The high-selling
buck in the sale, at $1,200, was a consignment from Curtis Charles of
Lancaster, PA. This buck sold to Potomac State College of Keyser, WV.
In the PA Buck Test, the bucks are housed and self-fed a ration
consisting of 1,000 lbs. oats, 500 lbs. corn, 250 lbs. linseed meal,
190 lbs. soybean meal, 50 lbs. wheat middlings, and 26 lbs. minerals
and vitamins. The test is open to purebred and percentage papered bucks
born between September 1 and February 28.
For more information about Pennsylvania’s performance testing
programs and sales, contact Glenn Eberly at 814-238-2527 or
geberly@state.pa.us.
