Holy festival of Muslims Eid-ul-Adha scheduled on September 25 this year is marked with the sacrifice of goat and as few days are left for the festival, sale of goats at different places in the city is witnessed.
A goat which has an offer price of Rs 11 lakh has become the talk of the town as the owner is not able to get customer offering Rs11 lakh.
The mighty and massive 200 kg goat which is three years old is one of first of its kind goat of the State. The goat owned by Yawar Ali Khan of Koh-e-Fiza is priced at Rs11 lakh is not getting buyer in the city which has forced the owner to take the goat for selling in Mumbai.
Ali was offered Rs7 lakh for the goat but he is not willing to sell the goat below Rs11 lakh and if as he is not going to get customer who would shell Rs11 lakh he had planned to take the goat for selling it in Mumbai.
Earlier, around 5 years ago a goat weighing 160 kg was had failed to draw customer who could offer Rs7.5 for the goat and later the owner sold the goat to a Mumbai based customer for Rs7.5 lakh. The Kohinoor named goat was auctioned in which the highest bid was of Rs7.5 lakh.
Fourteen months old goat have two fully grown teeth while the one with 18 -20 teeth is around 18-20 months old. The goat having eight teeth is over three years of age.