![Jason McDonald, "Bonds", Hargraves, sold mixed-age Boer nannies for between $28 and $30/head across his drafts of 39 head. Jason McDonald, "Bonds", Hargraves, sold mixed-age Boer nannies for between $28 and $30/head across his drafts of 39 head.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-agfeed/2056206.jpg/r0_0_1024_685_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
THE quarterly Dubbo goat sale was met with unexpected supply on Tuesday as 3280 head were yarded.
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The yarding was more than 2000 head above the advertised figure but the extra numbers were put down as a "sign of the times" by auctioneer Joe Portelli, P.T. Lord, Dakin and Associates, Dubbo.
"There were a lot of people offloading, not only at our sale, but across the domestic market," Mr Portelli said.
Even so, goat quality was still fairly good.
Boer wethers sold from $20 to $120 a head for good quality two-year-old wethers, $8 to $10 cheaper than the previous market, while nannies sold from $20 and up to $65/head for a top pen from Julie Latta at Tomingley which went to a restocker at Collie.
Bush goats sold from $8 to $23/head.
"There was a lack of restockers because of the season," Mr Portelli said.
"We usually have an exporter from South Australia but he wasn't operating at the sale because of the heatwave in SA."
Despite the lower Australian dollar making it cheaper to export, the extended period of higher temperatures has made it harder for exporters to put animals on boats.
"Apparently you can't put sheep or goats on a boat once it gets to a certain temperature due to welfare issues so this particular exporter wasn't taking anymore and has a bit of a backlog of animals to get through."
Taking the top price honours was a pen of two-year-old Boer wethers offered by Bernard Thompson, Dubbo who offered his last run of goats after 15 years of perfecting them, according to Mr Portelli.
Mr Thompson's wethers were sold to a Sydney restocker.
Jason McDonald and father Tony, "Bonds", Hargraves, sold the culls from their Boer herd of about 200 head.
They received between $28 and $30 for their drafts, totalling 49 head, sold to processors.
Norma and Keith Rhynehart, "Hopewood", Binnaway, were off loading excess stock to make better use of feed during the dry.
They sold 28 mixed age nannies for $30/head.