Butchering article with graphic pictures

Absolutely. It is here to be used!

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Emily Dixon
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emily...you are the cats meow...it is a great post.i seen this post last spring and thoguht wow what a gal...and you are.hope you and your dad become millionaires from your goat operation...but from all the pic's of you and your family i can tell you already are.

i like to use my loader bucket to hang my deer from.then i can raise and lower it as needed.i have only butchered 2 goats but they were great tasteing.good job....keep it up...

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Yep, and we cavewomen will inherit the earth...or what's left of it!...I wish I would have had a sheet....I'm learnin'

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Wow! Great post Emily!! I'm not sure I will ever be as practical as you are about it tho, I am such a sucker for an animal!!! But I plan on trying!!

Yeah, but Feral? It's FUNNIER without the sheet... And scares HELL out of the neighbors...


I once strung up a butchered goat in the front yard in the wintertime and wrapped it with a white sheet overnight to cool out.

In the snowy, frosty morning? With all the cars going past (busy road)? It looked like a dead, butchered person hanging there...

I'm surprised the sheriff didn't investigate (or maybe he/she did and I slept through it...)

Mallies/Townies get a little agitated about such stuff...

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have done deer but always gutted them in the field .skun them with the head on then cut it off when i got the hide down that far. i love legs roasts full of flavor nice job.

LOL! Yes, it is FUNNIER without the sheet!

Yesterday my neighbor came over with 2 more 6 week old kids (I had given her 2 bottle babies to fatten up) and we butchered those.

I'm on a roll here.

Anyway, we were shooting and butchering and then i was digging holes and burying body parts. Although i am located a ways off the little county road, to any passersby, it would certainly appear that we were up to no good...we got tickled about it and hadf a good laugh.

We started comparing it to Texas Chainsaw Massacre or SAW

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Diane Rhodes
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Hey Diane, just curious, I know you have LGD's, why not feed the excess parts to them?? My LGD's get everything, and eat it all except for the stomach contents, which the chickens eat. Its a great and healthy way to save on dogfood.

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"Remember, no man is a failure, who has friends" -Clarence

I know others do it, but i have always been concerned about them developing a taste for a bleeding or injured goat if they start eating goat entrails. Although they no longer show any interest in what I am doing, it has just become a habit of mine to butcher behind a fence that they cannot get through and to not let them get at the remnants. i started that habit years ago when i aquired my first pyr pups, not knowing how they would react to me harming "their" goats. I was quite nervous about it frankly, so i tried to put a space between us and not "throw it in their faces" so to speak. Now they pay no mind to what i do to the goats....except the disbudding upsets them. My oldest pyrenees also does not even let a chicken near if i am bottlefeeding...the goats must not be bothered!

I guess i could start feeding the remains to the dogs, i just don't want to mess up a good thing.

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All that butchering, killing, slaughtering, and bloody guts right here on HT.

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And then everyone talking about eating the poor little thing.

You never did offer us a bight or taste
and I'm kinda don't know what to think

Make me hungry

I need to kill a goat some day, and try one.

YOU GOT - EM DONE
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bumpus
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Hey Bumpus, if you kill and eat a goat, talk with your inside voice and don't tell a soul on HT....they may throw up.

And if they knew what kind of genetics is sitting in that freezer, they would attempt CPR!

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Diane Rhodes
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Isn't that what homesteading is all about?? Raising food for your own consumption??
by the way Diane my LDG get raw meat and bones "barf" and never hurt a chicken or a goat besides which now with all the dog food contaminations tis a better choice. Why waste bones etc.

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LOL picturing a frantic frenzy of cpr, stitching, gluing...

FRANKENGOAT!

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Good one, Emily! Makes me hungry!

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Oh the irony...I have an ugly little non-papered frankengoat milkdoe with scurs that lives and the sons from my "super buck" are in permafrost.

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Diane Rhodes
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I wondered the same thing back when I first started butchering goats.......So I did a lot of research and talked to a lot of long-time breeders who butcher and feed the dogs the raw scraps. The consensus was that it had never caused the dogs to do anything differently. After all, an LGD knows the difference and in fact, good LGD's will many times eat stillborn kids. They also eat the afterbirth. I've been doing it for years now and its great. Sure saves on dogfood and its extremely healthy for the dogs. Between our yard dogs and the LGD's, nothing is left but the hair. They even eat the hide over time. The pups have great chew toys with the hooves and bones and when they are completely devoid of meat, I gather and burn the bones.

Anyway, it really works well here. The dogs know they aren't to bother the goat when I'm butchering, but they sit over near the area where I dump the offal and just wait.

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Emily Dixon
Ozark Jewels
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"Remember, no man is a failure, who has friends" -Clarence

Good to know, and I know you have had LOTS of experience in this area. My dogs have never offered to hurt a goat and also eat afterbirth and help clean the does after kidding. I will try to trust them more to do what they are bred to do. I think it is more my problem than theirs!

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Diane Rhodes
Feral Nature Farm
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Member ADGA, MDGA

Thanks for sharing on how to do this. So far, I haven't been able to bring myself to do the slaughtering, but have been able to butcher after my friend's son killed the goat. I need to get some of mine done. I have more wethers than does so far this spring and room in the deep freeze.

Wind In Her Hair wrote a Tanning Hides 101 in the Fiber Arts subforum of Cooking & Crafts. The link is in the 3rd stickie down.