Slaughtering Kid Goats for Easter Dinner

[animalfarmer]

Easter is one of the busiest times of the year at the farm for us. Are any of you slaughtering any bottle babies/kid goats for Easter dinner customers?
Anyone having kid for their Easter dinner?

[KittenMittens89]

[KittenMittens89]

Nope not here love them to much lol!

[animalfarmer]

KittenMittens89, we love them also,Grilled,Roasted,Broiled etc.etc.lol!!

[KittenMittens89]

hehe I could never do that.

[Beulah Gardens]

We don't slaughter them for customers but we have quite a few stop by to buy them. I love goat meat. the only time I didn't ~ it didn't have anything to do w/ the goat meat itself. I was at a ( I cannot spell it) 15th birthday party for one of my mexican friends girls. I gave him the goat for the party. It was so good until I went back for seconds and when I stirred the pot ~the head came up. I was done. In fact what I had eaten almost returned. I told him "Flo, we do not need to use every part, if you were worried about not having enough ~I would have given you two." Oh, that took a long time to get over and I am not weak stomached by any means.

[goatsareus]

we have not slaughtered a kid for Easter before, but we usually have chevon in some manner....will be roasting a leg this year from one of last years wethers..

[MamaDee]

What age is a good age to get the best and most meat?

We had kids only 2 weeks ago.....and one is a buck. We usually keep them around long enough to try to sell them. But if we don't, we send them to freezer camp before they get sexually mature.

But we've never butchered a really young one. Are they better? How do you cook them then? We have only done the crock pot.

Dee

[betsy h.]

I've got one on the freezer now, but he is slated for the annual 'farm field day and goat roast' memorial day weekend. I do have one little buckling that could go now, but if you eat them at a very early age, they are rubbery. And I do have one yearling buckling that really needs to go, but not sure if I'd rather have the $$$ for him or the meat- he's a guernsey and his fur is GORGEOUS!

[RiverPines]

We had whole roasted kid last year for Easter and it was fabulous!
We supplied the kid and my sister-in-law roasted it.
I dont know what she all did with seasonings and such but whatever she did, it was the best goat I had even eaten.

We have one more in the freezer now.
We were thinking about having that one whole roasted over the fire pit this summer.

Our kids for roasting were 4 month old pygmy doelings.

[Beulah Gardens]

We do not butcher them little either, usually we kid in the spring and butcher in the fall before we have to start feeding hay. That way there as little money put out as possible. So what ever size they happen to be is the best size for us. *s*

[ozark_jewels]

We butcher and eat goat year round, so no special plans for Easter. I rarely sell butcher kids, as I have a large family to keep in meat. Maybe a couple kids every year to outside buyers.

[Feral Nature]

The younger the better as far as we are concerned. I have numerous little bitty bucklings that I want to butcher for our own use while they are still milkfed and there are two older wethers that need butchering (yearlings).

The little ones are really good, we smoke them whole outside on the pit, like brisket, seasoning them the same way, sopping them every half hour. It is unbelievably good.

[steff bugielski]

I sold 28 this past weekend for Easter . I sell them alive. Sure is lonely out in the pasture, but noisy.

[Minelson]

Originally Posted by KittenMittens89

I'm with you KittenMittens lol! Don't eat my babies. But understand and accept that a lot of people do