On eating goat meat

Ms. Research

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Thanks for posting the nutritional value of goat meat. I have never tried it. Love Beef, Pork, Chicken. Had rabbit a while ago and enjoyed it. I'm now interested to see what goat meat taste as much as I'm looking forward to goat's milk. :)
 

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If you ever find goat meat has a little too much of a gamey taste, soak it in some milk overnight before cooking. Makes a huge difference.
 

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we have eaten one of our meat goats, he was a wether about one year old, loved it. We loved the chops the best, very close to tasting like lamb, this next year we intend on putting a couple of wethers in the frezzer for the winter.I don't think i could eat one of my Nubians (just me) but they are more like my pets, and of course if I know which ones were gonna be eating I don't let myself get to close to it. But God did put lamb and goats in the begining and those people ate very good:lol: meat.
 

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Thanks a lot for this post, I just dropped off a 125 lb Boer wether at the slaughter house, the wife and i are really excited to have meat in the freezer that er raised ourself. I have had goat before and like it a lot, she is waiting and hoping she likes it,I think she will. how much usuable meat do you think we'll get from a 125lb goat?
 

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As far as usable meat, I always figure around 40 to 45% off a boer goat that has good muscling. Ofcourse a dairy mix would be a little less.


We had a couple ground into hamburger a few years ago, we really enjoyed it. but with the rising cost of meat. Getting 2 dollars a pound live weight and only getting maybe 50% meat from that. We didn't feel this year we could justify the $4 dollars a lb we lost on the sale of the meat. So we sold out this year. Maybe next year we will try to hold a couple back.
 

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Freezerburn was 80 lbs, and we got around 40 lbs of meat from hims. I was pretty careful in his feeding, to make sure that he was gaining muscle and not just getting fat.

I raised his feed and had him eat with this front feet on a cinder block, I really saw nice development of the hams after that. I also saw to it that he was exercised, but not so much that his become overly muscular.
 

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Livinwright Farm said:
I do not know as to how they are killed, but the point remains that America has gone soft when it comes to what we eat, because we are a fat lazy cushy country that can afford to pick and choose what we want to eat. I almost hope for another great depression, so that some of the more picky people would gain respect for what they are eating.
I prefer to disagree with your comment that America is Fat, and Lazy. We can afford to be choosey because of our generations of hard work and blood shed. I really hope you don't want another Great Depression.
 

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This is a really interesting thread. I've never tried goat meat, but after reading this, it sounds like a totally viable possibility. I just have to break through that programming, like I did when we started raising rabbits last year. It's astonishing how deeply embedded our ideas can be, and yet we still have no idea where they came from! :hu

Anyway, dairy goats were on my radar for that future homestead we dream about... and now a Boer doe sounds like a good addition as well. Maybe crossed with a dairy buck, if necessary. Hmmm.
 

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Hi Lorelai!

lol, I'm pretty outside of the box, so to say, so I didnt have to worry about "programming". I'll try anything once!

I had to break hubby out of his programming, though. I mentioned goat meat to him several years ago (ok over 10 years ago) and he wasnt on board. I finally gave up on him and just did it myself. I brought home goats, told him what I wanted to do.........he had to get on board or get left behind. He got on board, tried goat, and is now wanting to expand the herd of two breeding does to 8-10 breeding does, making them our main source of meat! YAY!

Rabbits are on my agenda next, but dont tell hubby. He is hung up on wild rabbit. We'be eaten it and enjoyed it, but there is not enough meat and too many bones for his taste. I domesticated meat rabbit has much more meat on it, a better quality carcass. I'll just have to buy a few, raise them out and feed them to him. But one thing at a time, lol.

I'd definately add a boer doe to your herd, and give it a try.
 

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I am going to just go right ahead and use my dairy wethers as meat kids. We have lamanchas, so they are not HUGE by any means, but our family is small, so the dairy kids should work just fine :)
I looked into breeding to a boer or Kiko or getting a boer or kiko doe to cross to my dairy bucks, but ultimately decided against it for right now. Maybe in the future. Right now the dairy kids wil be enough. Specially if all my does took... come April I am going to have Lamanchas coming out my ears!
 
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