B&B Happy Goats....journal

[Bruce]

 

[Baymule]

Will have something with me, that's for dddang sure...can't expect the goats to protect me...and leon is certainly out of the picture unless our stimulus checks come and he can go to the pawn shop and buy a AK47 or something ...or a saturday night red neck special ...
that man cracks me up, when I was telling him about neighbors snake he started really getting uncomfortable, I told him I checked to be sure it was dead by touching it and how cool it felt, he said OMG you touched it ...yes ..with this finger , and I touched him.....he jumped away from me and kept moving as I kept touching him ...I laughed so hard that..well.....you can call me puddles

You are so bad, touching him with the SNAKE FINGER! Exactly what I would do.

 

[Baymule]

I would think hanging any animal upside down would cause fear and lots of stress. I like your idea better. When we slaughtered 3 hogs here one year, neighbor shot them, we snatched them out, hung on tractor bucket, cut throat and bled out. I see no reason that wouldn’t work for you.

If you are going to do more of this, you might do it both ways to see for yourself what is best for the animal.

 

[thistlebloom]

I vote for shoot first.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I would shoot first. I couldn't hang one while alive... just couldn't do it. I think if you shoot and move fast to bleed it out it will be fine. Let us know how it turns out...

 

[Bruce]

You are saying that when it comes to "men", size matters?

I vote for shoot first. I gather chickens go almost instantly when put upside down in a cone and artery slit. I don't imagine it would be the same with a goat. And since you've seen that done to a goat and have an unpleasant memory of it, I think you wouldn't want to repeat that.

 

[farmerjan]

I believe that the hal lal (sp?) way to do it is to kill without any stunning. However, they are well trained in that and it is a religious ceremony also. They do not hang them or put them into any trauma in the process. They have to face a certain direction, the animal is on the ground.... There will be too much trauma to just hang a kid upside down and then slit it's throat. Even killing rabbits they are stunned before they are cut to bleed out.
If there is too much trauma, the adrenaline into their system will make the meat have a bad taste and make it tougher.

 

[Mike CHS]

I would shoot first. I couldn't hang one while alive... just couldn't do it. I think if you shoot and move fast to bleed it out it will be fine. Let us know how it turns out...

Just saw this and there is no way I would hang and cut one while it was alive. We take them to the butcher but there are thousands of deer killed and cleaned every year.

 

[CntryBoy777]

They shot animals...cows, pigs, goats, and sheep...at the packing plant I worked at, before they hoisted them up....so, I don't see why it wouldn't work for ya....many deer are handled that way....I would use a small caliber like a 22 in the head....no fuss, no muss....

 

[CntryBoy777]

Sounds like a good day ahead....ya sure deserve it!!....got intentions of wettin' a hook?.....