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04/24/12, 07:15 PM
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All these bucklings!
What do I do with them?
Out of 8 kids we haev *6* bucklings. UGH! I don't want to feed them, don't want to share the milk, can't milk them .. what do I do? They are cute and all but I can't keep them just because they are cute! 
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04/24/12, 07:24 PM
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Tell my wife that. We have a dozen bucklings and she won't part with a one.
BTW, I haven't slept in 3 weeks.
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04/24/12, 07:32 PM
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04/24/12, 07:33 PM
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Barbecue.
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04/24/12, 07:58 PM
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How long til they are big enough to eat? And one of them who's barely a month old is already mounting his sister! UGH! Mother Nature can be so difficult sometimes.
A DOZEN BUCKLINGS? I'd go mad. SO keeps saying "oh aren't they the cutest things ever?" and I just roll my eyes. Yeah, they are cute but the turn into stinky beasts and drink all the milk in the mean time!
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04/24/12, 08:03 PM
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When I bred my first dairy goats a few years ago I told my husband the plan was to raise the bucklings to weanling then butcher. I hear that is the best meat. For him, it was love at first site and he worked diligently to find them new homes. Fast forward 4 years, he was intorduced to goat meat and it was love at first bite. Now we are raising meat goats. And they say women are fickle!!
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04/24/12, 08:08 PM
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You could always sell some of them. I'm sure there are folks that would raise them up or they may want them wethered for pets.
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04/24/12, 08:21 PM
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At that age, it's dominance, not breeding.
We butchered one at 8 weeks. TENDER and delicious.
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04/24/12, 10:13 PM
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Alice, could you share how you barbecue your goat meat?
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04/24/12, 10:18 PM
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I am sure that if you tried to sell them you would find a crazy person like me who would buy them!!!
What if you banded them and sold them as weed eaters? Our first goats were wethers and they turned out to be the sweetest goats who love to keep our weeds down.
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04/25/12, 05:38 AM
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Actually, I seasoned the meat with fajita seasoning and put it in the crock pot!
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I went to the auction the other day to get an idea of what the market for chickens, goats and calves where going for and to my surprise little bucklings that couldnt have been weaned long maybe 20lbs where going for the 50 and 75 dollar range. bucks where selling for higher than does.
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04/25/12, 08:38 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PrettyPaisley
What do I do with them?
Out of 8 kids we haev *6* bucklings. UGH! I don't want to feed them, don't want to share the milk, can't milk them .. what do I do? They are cute and all but I can't keep them just because they are cute! |
Wish I had your problem, out of 27 kids, 8 are bucklings. Since I raise for meat it is hard to see some of these doellings go.
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04/25/12, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by bwanaswan
Tell my wife that. We have a dozen bucklings and she won't part with a one.
BTW, I haven't slept in 3 weeks.
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Your wife sounds like my daughter, except all of ours are wethers because if I had a dozen boys peeing themselves I might just hurt someone!
She loves the wethers, wants to keep about 10 times more then I want to, they come out in all these colors, cute, super sweet; I think it is a ploy so we will keep them.
I sell them for 4H, weed eaters, whatever they want, just get them out of here  I still have more boys to go but thankfully I have sold more then half.
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My mother raises Nigerians, and my sister has become the home for wayward bucklings. *lol* The bucks are just always so much CUTER than most of the does! My mother sells the doelings for good money, and sells some of the bucklings for breeding, and some for pets (as wethers), but my sister gets first dibs on which babies are "hers" for the year. *lol*
I agree, it's nature's way of saying, "Look how cute I am, you don't want to eat me!"
For bucklings, it's definitely survival of the cutest. *lol*
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04/25/12, 01:35 PM
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Butcher them at weaning. Yes, you still have to share the milk that way, but you don't have to feed them anything, and you get to eat them in the end. So you trade meat for milk. 
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04/25/12, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by thaiblue12
Your wife sounds like my daughter, except all of ours are wethers because if I had a dozen boys peeing themselves I might just hurt someone!
She loves the wethers, wants to keep about 10 times more then I want to, they come out in all these colors, cute, super sweet; I think it is a ploy so we will keep them.
I sell them for 4H, weed eaters, whatever they want, just get them out of here I still have more boys to go but thankfully I have sold more then half. |
Your daughter sounds like a sweet girl! The wethers have always been my favorites too, thank gosh Dh puts his foot down & won't let me keep them all!
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04/25/12, 10:05 PM
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We're going to be looking for wethers for cart goats. Maybe you could get a couple of your boys castrated and train them up.
I have a pygora who will be kidding in August, so I'm holding off til then, but I just know she is going to have does, which I don't want at this point. (not from this cross- pygmy buck to pygora doe- I want her crossed next time to an angora.) Whatever we have will probably end up in the freezer or sold, because I don't want a pasture full of pets.
Well, actually, I do, but practicality has to reign over sentimentality, lol. We want bigger males for draft purposes than the pygora will have.
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04/25/12, 10:19 PM
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We had our first kids about two months ago, twin bucklings. Since they were our first goat babies, I knew the kids would want to keep them. So, I banded them and they can just earn their keep helping eat down the pasture. Right now I have the two whethers, three does and finally got rid of our extra buck yesterday so down to one buck. Two of our other does should be bred and one of them should be dropping in the next few weeks. If they are doelings, I dont have a problem keeping them. Any more bucklings and I will either try and sell them or put them in the freezer. Just have to tell my girls upfront that any more bucklings have a date with destiny. As long as they know upfront, they will be fine with it.
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Weening can be 8 weeks, right? Is that big enough to be worth it? Like a banty-when I think about that goes into processing one I figure it's not worth the effort.
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