Do you butcher any of your goats?

[genuck]

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Around here we name all the wethers bound for freezer camp "Kenny". .

LOL, I forget who it was on the chicken forums that referred to her broilers as 'The Kennys'

 

[mydakota]

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Around here we name all the wethers bound for freezer camp "Kenny". .

LOL, I forget who it was on the chicken forums that referred to her broilers as 'The Kennys'

I know several folks who started doing it after I did. Is her name Warpony by any chance? LOL!

 

[arabianequine]

We also put alpaca in the freezer at the same time and have to admit that we like alpaca much more than goat.

I didn't know you could eat an alpaca! That must've been very expensive meat since alpacas cost over $3,000!

I keep hearing this from people but see alpacas advertised on craigslist often for a couple hundred dollars? I don't understand.

 

[arabianequine]

I have a nubian that is in milk now, but am looking to breed her in the next couple of months. I have a saanen yearling that I want to breed this month. My problem is finding registered bucks around here. Maybe we'll try a boer buck... Hmmm. Another thing to think about. I am a first timer myself. I got my first goats in March so I am very much a newbie.

I heard that nubians were the fist meat goat.

I have a saanen buck to breed to my boer does....and that is suppose to make the best meat goat. They will be big and grow fast.

I will breed them this fall/winter for spring kids. I am a new goat owner to, as of May 1st 2011.

 

[kstaven]

We also put alpaca in the freezer at the same time and have to admit that we like alpaca much more than goat.

I didn't know you could eat an alpaca! That must've been very expensive meat since alpacas cost over $3,000!

I keep hearing this from people but see alpacas advertised on craigslist often for a couple hundred dollars? I don't understand.

I have seen many alpacas and lahmas cheap around here.

 

[kstaven]

I have a nubian that is in milk now, but am looking to breed her in the next couple of months. I have a saanen yearling that I want to breed this month. My problem is finding registered bucks around here. Maybe we'll try a boer buck... Hmmm. Another thing to think about. I am a first timer myself. I got my first goats in March so I am very much a newbie.

I heard that nubians were the fist meat goat.

I have a saanen buck to breed to my boer does....and that is suppose to make the best meat goat. They will be big and grow fast.

I will breed them this fall/winter for spring kids. I am a new goat owner to, as of May 1st 2011.

That will produce a nice meat carcass. Surprisingly a togg crossed will work well also.

 

[pekinduck<3er]

Nope i dont but i get my husband to do it!

 

[arabianequine]

I have a nubian that is in milk now, but am looking to breed her in the next couple of months. I have a saanen yearling that I want to breed this month. My problem is finding registered bucks around here. Maybe we'll try a boer buck... Hmmm. Another thing to think about. I am a first timer myself. I got my first goats in March so I am very much a newbie.

I heard that nubians were the fist meat goat.

I have a saanen buck to breed to my boer does....and that is suppose to make the best meat goat. They will be big and grow fast.

I will breed them this fall/winter for spring kids. I am a new goat owner to, as of May 1st 2011.

That will produce a nice meat carcass. Surprisingly a togg crossed will work well also.

Hmmm so I have a doe togg and just picked up a boer buck???? Now you got me thinking don't do that lol....kinda scary when that happens.

 

[arabianequine]

I didn't know you could eat an alpaca! That must've been very expensive meat since alpacas cost over $3,000!

I keep hearing this from people but see alpacas advertised on craigslist often for a couple hundred dollars? I don't understand.

I have seen many alpacas and lahmas cheap around here.

Me too but I had a neighbor I meet this spring that said they got into llamas because the alpacas were $3000. I was actually at a livestock auction earlier this year and there was several baby alpacas that went for $25 each and then the last 3 went for $30 so $10 each but the same person bought them all.

 

[20kidsonhill]

We had a really niced framed saanen/boer doe, she had a really nice bone structure on her and nice thick legs, her kids were always really nice. The problem we had with her was she didn't come into milk until three days after she kidded, not jut the first time she kidded, but every time. I tried to work wiht it and kept a couple daughters from her thinking they would still have the nice frame, but be better milkers. NOpe, The first doeling we got kids from at 18 months of age and she did the exact same thing. So we sent the entire bloodline to the the sale barns.

As far as muscling and bone mass, they were really nices crosses.