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04/23/13, 09:47 AM
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I'm supposed to eat this?
When I got into this dairy goat thing, the plan was to eat the extra males. But how do I eat this..... 
Maybe he will be a trouble maker.
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04/23/13, 09:55 AM
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Yes, he looks like bad news. I would name him Chops.
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04/23/13, 10:05 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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I see your problem. Park your new car inside where you keep him. Maybe you will get lucky and he will climb on it and scratch it all up.
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04/23/13, 10:13 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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He will get less cute in a few months. That's what I tell people when they see my 2 week old rabbits and ask how I can eat them :P
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04/23/13, 10:26 AM
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I can see this being a problem for me too. My hope is that they start looking less cute and more delicious....
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04/23/13, 10:29 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: east tennessee
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Mammabooh- Chops it is.
Bret- Maybe my dh's truck.
TroutRiver- I was just thinking about my first litter of NZW's born two days ago. I have more due Thursday, but my rabbits aren't very friendly.
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04/23/13, 10:30 AM
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I couldn't do it! He is adorable!
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04/23/13, 10:37 AM
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hence our giving up on that idea years ago...even if I sent them off to be butchered and brought back in white wrapped packages.. no one here would eat any of it (everyone took a stand of not eating someone they raised).. so I just had to face the fact that we will always be just hobby farmers, not real homesteader types.. I bought better bloodlines, tested and tested and tested some more.. and started breeding bucks that other people want for herd sires.. (all that said.. no one here has any problem eating someone the neighbor's raised LOL ..just not OUR four legged family)
susie, mo ozarks
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04/23/13, 11:27 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by yarrow
hence our giving up on that idea years ago...even if I sent them off to be butchered and brought back in white wrapped packages.. no one here would eat any of it (everyone took a stand of not eating someone they raised).. so I just had to face the fact that we will always be just hobby farmers, not real homesteader types.. I bought better bloodlines, tested and tested and tested some more.. and started breeding bucks that other people want for herd sires.. (all that said.. no one here has any problem eating someone the neighbor's raised LOL ..just not OUR four legged family)
susie, mo ozarks
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These babies are half ND, but next year, if Toby survives, they will be pure. Do you ever worry about flooding the area with your bloodlines and making it harder for you to sell ? Or do you sell outside of your area? This is something I've wondered about. Not that I live in a goat area. I like your idea and eventually I hope to be there.
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04/23/13, 11:30 AM
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Well... You post him for sale as a bottle baby. If he sells, great. If he doesn't, oh well! he won't be so adorable when he comes of age. That's what I do with my rabbits
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04/23/13, 11:45 AM
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Maybe when he's a stinky, big boy with attitude?
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04/23/13, 11:50 AM
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Ages Ago Acres Nubians
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hurryiml8
These babies are half ND, but next year, if Toby survives, they will be pure. Do you ever worry about flooding the area with your bloodlines and making it harder for you to sell ? Or do you sell outside of your area? This is something I've wondered about. Not that I live in a goat area. I like your idea and eventually I hope to be there.
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I am still very picky and only the bucklings that I would keep for myself as herd sires.. get sold as reg. bucklings.. (others go without papers. which is a different market of buyers..those doubling sales, by having two different groups/interests).. I also will on occasion still give a wether as a companion for a nice (more expensive) future herd sire buckling.. We've been in this area for 10 years now... this year the bucklings sold as fast as the doelings did..I am down to my last kid of the year left for sale (haven't really advertised them.. had a hard deciding which to keep.. I'm keeping one for my on jr. buck replacement).. I ended up choosing the less flashy of the two (the one I'm selling is covered in white spots and moonspots.. as well as a big white belt.. he and his brother was about identical in type/style).. I do sell a lot of kids (both sexes) outside my immediate area.. I have both a fb & a website.. so most of my buyers come to me via web searches.... I rarely advertise anywhere else.
good luck (cute bottle babies sell well on CL from what I keep hearing)
susie
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04/23/13, 12:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RitzieAnn
Well... You post him for sale as a bottle baby. If he sells, great. If he doesn't, oh well! he won't be so adorable when he comes of age. That's what I do with my rabbits
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RitzieAnn -You're right he would sell right now on craigslist, but we come to my other problem. His dam is a FF and has microscopic teats, so I want to leave him on her. I can't milk her. I had no idea she would be so hard to milk! She comes from good milking lines so I think she will improve (it's just been a week.)
Thanks Yarrow, I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question. I'll remember it.
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04/23/13, 12:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TroutRiver
He will get less cute in a few months. That's what I tell people when they see my 2 week old rabbits and ask how I can eat them :P
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They are just as cute at 8 - 10 weeks, and by then have each developed a personality....
The eating is easy.
The processing is not so bad.
It is the "dispatching" that is such a trial. 
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04/23/13, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by o&itw
They are just as cute at 8 - 10 weeks, and by then have each developed a personality....
The eating is easy.
The processing is not so bad.
It is the "dispatching" that is such a trial. |
I have found that to be true with other kinds of animals as well. I don't think I'm up to processing goats yet. We took his sire to the butcher, but that's expensive. If my dh would do the dispatching, I could do the rest, but he's a softy. 
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04/23/13, 03:47 PM
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I made a deal with my hubby that is "I do not eat anyone I know" I have no problem eating goat meat but I either sell mine boys and then buy a meat goat or do some trading. Works for us
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04/23/13, 05:32 PM
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Location: Central Virginia
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Originally Posted by hiddensprings
"I do not eat anyone I know" |
Before I had goats, I would have tried goat meat happily (I've never tried it). Now that I have them and know them, there's no way I could eat one. Not mine, not an anonymous goat. Yes, I'm that much of a marshmallow.
Your little boy will still be cute when he gets older. And he'll be smart, and full of personality. Hope you like salad.
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04/23/13, 05:46 PM
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Goslings say Weh-Wey-Weh!
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What a CUTE kid!! Good luck ;D
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04/23/13, 06:53 PM
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Sometimes they are just as sweet older too. We had kept a buck thinking we would use him this coming fall. Well...plans changed and we realized we couldn't use him in the breeding plans. I now have a cooler full of meat that I am packaging for the freezer.
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04/23/13, 06:59 PM
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Raised two pigs this fall. By the time they reached 250 lbs. They had everything mud and the poop was awful. They sure make a tasty meal.
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