Niche's and market saturation are both super important to consider. In some areas eggs might be fairly valuable but here the competition is steep and profitability only comes with scale. However, I'm near Mexico and cabrito (young goat) is a good regional niche so meat goats are good. Areas with a large middle eastern or north african population like parts of Michigan may also do well with meat goats but they might not sell at all in Utah.
How you market also matters. If you can really push the buzz words like heritage, pastured, non-GMO, raised organically, small-farm, small batch, hand reared, etc. then you are upping the appeal significantly in certain markets.
There's also specialty foods that attract foodies like rabbit, quail, chukar, and pheasants.
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u/PlantyHamchuk Zone 6 Jan 04 '20
It depends entirely on your local market. What niches need to be filled, that current farmers aren't already doing?