Meat goats

[Strummer]

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So do you or do you not want to milk the goat ?

[AntlerCollector]

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Well if you don’t want the best then Spanish goats are also good for meat.

[tazhunter0]

Are a lot goat growing up. I believe most was Spanish goats granddad picked up at the auction cheap. We would pen them up for a few weeks and pour the feed to them and then butcher.
I have considered getting 1-2 to butcher out but wife gives me headaches about wanting to butcher them out. She wants them for pets. ( **** city girls )

[Sackett]

These are known for good sausage!

If you’ve never had Middle-Eastern Fried Mountain Oysters, you haven’t lived

[Quackerbox]

Don’t overlook getting one calf a year too. Bottle fed one last year. I was gonna keep it to butcher, but had a freezer full of venison. We decided to take it to auction as well. Made $500 off it.

You made 500 after you fed it or you sold it for 500 more than you paid?

If you’ve never had Middle-Eastern Fried Mountain Oysters, you haven’t lived

Its nuts you didnt see that pic was posted up the page.

[Snooker]

Haha... This is funny, but I've been considering it as well.

[AntlerCollector]

You made 500 after you fed it or you sold it for 500 more than you paid?



Its nuts you didnt see that pic was posted up the page.

Bottle fed it until it ate on its own. Bought two round bales and he fed in my pasture. That was pretty much the extent of my costs. Sold at auction for $590. I spent about $100 feeding him.

[Buck_jane]

Kiko/boer cross has worked well for me. I started with just boer and had to worm them once a month just to keep them alive. I bought a Kiko buck and kept all the females out of him. I know worm every 3/4 months. I breed them back to a boer buck and majority of the kids look boer.

[Chew]

Just make sure you're recording all this homesteading-esque action so you can get those Youtube monies.

Shooooot....I have more followers on tbh than on YouTube.

[Chew]

Kiko/boer cross has worked well for me. I started with just boer and had to worm them once a month just to keep them alive. I bought a Kiko buck and kept all the females out of him. I know worm every 3/4 months. I breed them back to a boer buck and majority of the kids look boer.

Good info. That was initial reason for the interest in kikos was the resistance to parasites and less hoof problems in East Texas soil.

[GarGuy]

Dogs and yotes

[diamond10x]

Whatever you do, keep no more than half the carrying capacity of your property as those things will turn your property to dust and even eat the scrap metal laying around.

If you're already going to have goats for meat you might as well get you an Alpine or Nubian for milking.

Personally, I'm not a fan of goat meat or milk as my family raised, butchered, and sold them for 40 years. Ate and drank way too much of it as a kid. They're technically low maintenance when it comes to some things like feed and being fairly hardy but they can be a real PITA.

[tps7742]

Dogs and yotes

That is definitely east tx knowledge you are sharing in this statement. Just because you don’t hear the yotes howling barking they are still there.

[Buck_jane]

Good info. That was initial reason for the interest in kikos was the resistance to parasites and less hoof problems in East Texas soil.

Yeah I learned about them the hard way. Kikos are high but worth every penny in the long run.

[Chew]

Dogs and yotes

I'll resort to that if I get hungry enough. But in reality I would have to run out of deer, hogs, rabbits, quail, goats, grandkids.. before I resorted to eating dogs and yotes.