What to do with Huck and Tom

[christij]

I bought two ND wheters as bottle babies before I went out and bought my does so I could learn some basic of goat care and if I really would like to care for them. At the time I thought they would stay forever but with the purchase of Comet the horse and the price of hay I feel the need that I need to make some cut in my expenses. I am already keeping a buckling and companion wheter.
I thought someone local was interested and have one person interested in NJ in one of them but I don't know anything about sending a goat across state lines.
Of course I was thinking I wanted them to go as pets but you never know how that ends up in the long run.
I guess what I am wondering is I have been tryinig to sell them for a few months.... would it just be best in the long run to sell them to someone to eat?? Since I always viewed them as pets I couldn't do it myself.

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

I have very strong feelings about the whole pet thing with livestock. We don't have forever homes for most pets...dogs & cats..let alone castrated livestock. How about butchering them and giving away the meat? I don't make wethers even for companion animals, I also don't sell older does, I also don't retire goats. In reality I know that an elder doe goes to a life of hell at another farm, wethers are passed around from person to person until they are killed by dogs or pestered to death by non farm children. I would rather make sure they are dead than do this to an animal. Vicki

[christij]

Vicki - Thanks. I think I have learned a very big lesson -- don't look at my livestock like they are pets.

[firefly81]

i have pet goats, my wethers are treated just as good as my does and bucks. i would have taken them along time ago if it wasnt such a long drive.