Good animal for clearing brushy meadow?

goats are great for clearing. get a couple of weaned wethers, healthy ones, boer types would net the most meat, but dairy wethers will provide meat, too. a strand or two of hot wire in strategic places inside the wood rail fence, and they'd be ok. they can use almost anything for shelter, including a hoop house. buy wethers around may, or as late as now, and butcher or sell in the fall (oct, nov) when stuff stops growing well.

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mink:

Absolutely. I felt really bad one time because an old lady had her old cow butchered. This thing was HUGE. I can't remember exactly, but I want to say hanging weight was something like 1100 pounds. Almost half went into the barrels as fat and big bones. This poor old lady couldn't even afford to pay for the whole cut and wrap fee at one time (she was on social security) because it was based on the hanging weight. She ended up picking it up half one month, half the other. And then she didn't get nearly as much meat as I'm sure she was thinking she should.

And my former boss was actually extremely efficient in his work. I had more than one customer tell me they got more meat back with him than other butchers in the area.

Janis

hmmm. I wonder if pigs would root out the johnson grass that my place is covered with......