larry@stinescorner
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On the front page of last weeks Lancaster Farm Newspaper,there is a nice article about meat goats and their rise in popularity,etc
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john in la
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I had some meat goats in the past.
To me that is to much of a niche market driven by holidays and ethnic groups for me.
That and the fact a fence has not been invented that will keep a determined goat on your land is the reason I got rid of them.
To me that is to much of a niche market driven by holidays and ethnic groups for me.
That and the fact a fence has not been invented that will keep a determined goat on your land is the reason I got rid of them.
Traditional Farmer
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Good article and there is an ever increasing demand for goat meat in the USA and considering that 90% of the goat meat consumed in the USA is imported there is an almost unlimited
room for expansion.Problem is only a few people that try goats take the time and effort to understand how to raise and manage them.They work best having them in a field with cattle
as both species benefit, also a few geese thrown in is good too.The Livestock Guard Dogs will protect them all from Coyotes.Market has stayed up well this year I usually sell during the month of December as that is usually when the prices peak.They are making me more money than the cattle these days that is for sure.
room for expansion.Problem is only a few people that try goats take the time and effort to understand how to raise and manage them.They work best having them in a field with cattle
as both species benefit, also a few geese thrown in is good too.The Livestock Guard Dogs will protect them all from Coyotes.Market has stayed up well this year I usually sell during the month of December as that is usually when the prices peak.They are making me more money than the cattle these days that is for sure.
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
I have no problem keeping goats in a field,gotta have some space and enough for them to eat same with any livestock.
teddy52food
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I have eaten goat meat sausage once & it tasted like bad venison. Does it all taste like that?
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
4ft Woven wire field fencing mostly and have started using 16ft cattle panels which cost more than wire but if labor is included in the cost works out about the same as field fencing plus its much easier to put up. Main thing with field fencing is to stretch it tight.
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
Pretty good(LOL) Reminds me of a mother/son operation back in the 60's their cattle hauler was an IH panel truck.
Ken Macfarlane
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No, but old billy goat is pretty nasty, dog food basically.
Have an altered Bon Jovi song in my head now though:
Your love is like bad venison
Bad venison is what I need, whoa
Shake it up just like bad venison
There ain't no doctor that can cure my disease
Have an altered Bon Jovi song in my head now though:
Your love is like bad venison
Bad venison is what I need, whoa
Shake it up just like bad venison
There ain't no doctor that can cure my disease
M-MAN
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- Bostic, NC
Friend of mine raised them for a long time but has quit due to the hassle. Most buyers are ethnic here and they got to where they wanted to come when having celebrations. Then they wanted to slaughter and dress them at his place. That was the last straw.
Traditional Farmer
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There is a fellow that buys goats at the Winchester VA market he buys the biggest,old bucks he can get, sells them to Jamacians that's all they want.Good thing about goats there is a market for every age and type.First generation immigrants are a big part of the market,don't think we'll run out of them in my lifetime.Plus the health food market for goat meat is picking up,its like deer meat its low fat doesn't marble like beef or pork.
OregonAaron
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I had goats as a kid and we just had a 2 or 3 strand electric fence and they never got out. Now, my brother and I got shocked plenty getting in- but the goats obeyed it.
We butchered a couple when we had goats many years ago- Need to cool the meat quickly, and don't try to eat the billy goat. It was actually pretty good, but the main beef (pun intended) we had was there just wasn't much of it. Brought the meat home in a grocery sack. It wasn't a very big goat, though, so YRMV.
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
I sold them on the farm for awhile but now take them all to the Winchester VA livestock market less hassle and really end up getting more out of them,last I sold bought in the
$2.70-$3.00 lb range, live weight.
$2.70-$3.00 lb range, live weight.
teddy52food
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It maybe was an old billy. That is why they made it into sausage. Tasted like strong venison.
Crazy Horse
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TEE ..... where in the world did you find that? Hilarious !!! It could also be used (with a few alterations) for one's mother-in-law.
CLYDE MASON
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- connersville, ind
a friend had some to sell. they slaughter and dress them at his place.
wife said never again. when they left all was left was a very small pile. they took almost everything to eat.
wife said never again. when they left all was left was a very small pile. they took almost everything to eat.
Donald Lehman
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ha! Ours just stick their head between the electric wires and the hair on their back and belly is thick enough they don't get zapped, and walk right on through. They learn very quickly not to touch the fence with their nose or face. They will carefully pick their legs up and not touch the wires as they go through. They also work together to go over a page wire fence. The first goat hooks her front feet into the fence, the second climbs up her back and then bends the fence down enough that the whole herd then goes over the top. We have one who can climb up the side of a page wire fence just like you would go up a ladder. I don't think dwarf goats are as bad, But Alpines are named Alpines for a reason. I believe they must be descended from Rocky Mountain goats! LOL!
BarnyardEngineering
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- Rochester, NY
So what's so much worse about slaughtering a goat than say a pig or a steer? If you're going to eat meat you should witness the slaughter of an animal at least once in your life. Sadly most people think meat comes from the grocery store. There was an idiot who lived across the road from our farm who literally did think it came from the grocery store. Told him the cows were killed to become his steaks and burgers... Mind BLOWN! He denied it and probably still does.
I was waiting for the elementary school bus one morning, and a neighbor went by, with a cull sow IN THE BACK SEAT of a TWO DOOR DESOTO!
I was still standing there, not believing what I had seen, when the bus pulled up. The driver thought I was sick, so I told her what I had seen. She didn't believe me, but the girl who got on after me confirmed it. Their houses shared a driveway, and she said he did this all of the time.
This would have been around 1979-80!
He always was kind of strange!
I was still standing there, not believing what I had seen, when the bus pulled up. The driver thought I was sick, so I told her what I had seen. She didn't believe me, but the girl who got on after me confirmed it. Their houses shared a driveway, and she said he did this all of the time.
This would have been around 1979-80!
He always was kind of strange!
john in la
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I have seen fence that will hold water that would not hold a goat.
They walk up the angle corner brace and jump over the fence.
They walk up the angle corner brace and jump over the fence.
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
Mistake #1 putting the brace on the side where the livestock are going to be.
john in la
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Sometimes that is not possible like where a field dividing fence T's off a perimeter fence and the livestock use both sides of the fence.
I wound up fencing both sides of the post for that first 5 feet.
Another problem is they will get under a fence in a low spot.
Free rusted rebar tied to the fence along the ground fix that problem.
I wound up fencing both sides of the post for that first 5 feet.
Another problem is they will get under a fence in a low spot.
Free rusted rebar tied to the fence along the ground fix that problem.
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
That's the reason I've gone to panels they are rigid,no braces and can be custom cut to fit a low place with bolt cutters.Ends up about $1.90 a running foot no more than wire ends up being and a WHOLE lot easier to install.I've fenced some very rough terrain I would never have gotten fenced with wire.
Crazy Horse
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Barney ..... yer neighbor was yankin' your chain I think.
What would be the difference between a meat goat and a dairy goat? I just know they are a very curious animam and some breeds have ears while others don't have any, just a hole in head where would think an ear should be to keep things out of the inner ear. Back in the 80's neighbor had goats and shipped his milk with the same can milk hauler we had.
Married2Allis
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The sack on the running board was the forerunner to the goat sidecar!
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