Butchering a wether do you want photos??

Jim and Loda are right crazygoatlady is CRAZY!!!!!! Please post the pics we are thinking about doing the same thing in a few months. Thanks for the help

Thanks everyone, I knew this thread would flush a few of them out. Come hard times they will be the first to come visit your homestead hungry. Burger king will be closed....TJ

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TOPSIDE FARMS

keep it nice, folks. And post pictures, please.

Wow....I think I just got deleted for my first time. I should know better than to quote profanity.

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Emily Dixon
Ozark Jewels
Nubians & Lamanchas
www.ozarkjewels.net

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

Thanks, Chuck.

This forum has a wide array of folks who have goats for reasons ranging from pets to meat to milk, and some for all of those reasons.

I compliment John for first asking if people wanted to see the pix before posting them. He was being respectful of others by doing that. He then clearly labeled the picture posts, so folks who did not want to see them could avoid them.

I believe that everyone is entitled to their opinions and to make their own lifestyle choices, as long as they do not infringe on my own. I am very socially liberal that way.

I have a wife who will not allow me to slaughter on our farm because it makes her squeamish. I respect that. But she also respects my view that there is nothing wrong with respectfully harvesting animals that are humanely born, raised and harvested from the farm, with acknowledgment of the gift of life they give us. To me, that is complete ownership of our place in the food chain.

We have friends who have chosen, as one says, that "if it has eyes, I won't eat it." That's fine, and I respect that. But they respect my view that we have canine teeth in front for a reason, and that is because we are intended to be omnivores. And they respect my view that, no matter what it is we eat, we MUST KILL to eat. Plant or animal, that's the way it is. We can't get away from that. It's our place on the food chain.

The point of all this wandering post is that there is a way to share views that is respectful of the other's perspective and yet still gets your point across. I'd hope we all attempt to do that.

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Jim Steele
Sweetpea Farms
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." -- Robert Gates

Jim, nice post. I raise my animals with love, care and utmost respect and like many of us, would rather they live out their lives at our own farms if they are destined as meat. I want to know that they have been loved and cared for 100% of their lives. I look at the meat wrapped so nicely at the grocery stores and a sadness comes over me. These animals have surely suffered. Mine have not. I can understand a vegetarian being upset about the killing of animals for food, that is their freedom and choice, but anyone who eats meat of any kind, a burger or a can of tuna even, is a hypocrite if they condemn those who raise their own.

And Emily, I was a deletion virgin myself until this thread. Now I feel naughty.

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Diane Rhodes
Feral Nature Farm
LaManchas, MiniManchas and Boers
Member ADGA, MDGA