Goats Eating Curry

[KidMandy]

Hi All,

I've just had an odd question from a potential buyer. He wants to know if my wethered buck will eat curry-flavoured food as he is hoping to flavour the meat from the inside out.

Have you ever heard of such a thing? I don't even know if that would work.

**Edited to say "curry-flavoured food." Originally said, "curry."

 

[NH homesteader]

Um... That is an odd question! I would say no. I don't think the goat would live very long if it actually did eat curry (although maybe that's not an issue). I know someone who fed a pig all Chinese food leftovers and when they butchered it, it was all fat. But didn't taste like Chinese food!

 

[KidMandy]

Ew ... that makes me think twice about eating Chinese take out

 

[NH homesteader]

Exactly!

 

[Latestarter]

Ummmm in a word, no. It doesn't work that way.

 

[WantonWoodsman]

Hi all. Imagine if you could feed your animals certain spices or seasoning salts. Would hunters rather go for lemon & herb flavored deer or boar rather than let's say sweet & sour. Lol

 

[norseofcourse]

Well... I have a friend who says she can tell a difference in eggs from chickens fed a corn diet, and chickens fed a non-corn diet. She can taste other nuances in food that I can't - some people are more sensitive to subtle flavors, some aren't.

Some meats are marketed as tasting different based on the diet of the animal. Salt marsh lamb for example.

So yes, I can see an animal's diet influencing how its meat tasted. Would eating curry make the meat taste like curry? Maybe, maybe not. Some people might detect a difference in taste, but whether it would be a 'curry-like' taste is something you wouldn't know till you tried it.

 

[Baymule]

If so, it would take a lot of curry to enhance the flavor of the meat. It would be cheaper to just put curry on the meat.

 

[OneFineAcre]

I don't think a goat would eat curry anyway.

 

[Latestarter]

I don't think the OP's original question was dealing with "subtle differences" in flavor... The way I understood the Q, her wether buyer wanted to produce already curried (flavored) goat meat at butchering, by feeding the animal curry.