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Meat Matters December 6th to December 10th, 2021

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  • Ridley AcresR Offline
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    Is there an ideal age to harvest goat? I assume 1yr or sooner.

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        Is there an ideal age to harvest goat? I assume 1yr or sooner.

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        Ridley Acres Those are the best. Cabrito.

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          Ridley Acres Goat meat is delicious, just like any other male animal, you have to take care of business first. I have tried it stewed & roasted & like both when done right. We drank a lot of goat milk when I was a kid, from folks we knew that had goats. The flavor is definitely different, but I think that is due to non pasteurization. I think when it is pasteurized, it is not so strong. When I was in school, they had a big goat research center so I was always bringing home goat milk, goat cheese, & of course, goat ice cream & my wife & I both enjoyed it all. A lot of all this is what folks get used to & then working to get good or better results.

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          calldoctoday when I was a young teen we were visiting family in Tennessee. My Uncle offered my 10 bucks, which was a lot of cash back in the day, to catch an old “Billy” so he could take care of business on the poor goat, with the intent of but butchering it later. I guess it had become destructive on one to many crops. Long story short, I earned 10 bucks, but it wasn’t the easiest thing to do. It was fun figuring out how to wrangle that thing. I think there are a few Hillbillies out there who will butcher a goat every now and then. I have only had it once and it was a long time ago. Like any animal, I assume its all about the processing and cooking.

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            calldoctoday when I was a young teen we were visiting family in Tennessee. My Uncle offered my 10 bucks, which was a lot of cash back in the day, to catch an old “Billy” so he could take care of business on the poor goat, with the intent of but butchering it later. I guess it had become destructive on one to many crops. Long story short, I earned 10 bucks, but it wasn’t the easiest thing to do. It was fun figuring out how to wrangle that thing. I think there are a few Hillbillies out there who will butcher a goat every now and then. I have only had it once and it was a long time ago. Like any animal, I assume its all about the processing and cooking.

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            GWG8541 & as part of the processing, the field work both pre, when it can be accomplished, & quick at all times, both for wild & domestic animals.

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              My dad grew up on a farm in Nebraska during the depression and raised hogs. Back then they didn’t castrate till the “jewels” had dropped. Occasionally only one had dropped so it was neither a barrow nor a stag after castration. He called it a ridgling. I remember one time when I was a kid he was frying up some bacon and he suddenly threw it in the trash can. My mom asked why and he said that bacon came from a da*n ridgling can’t you smell the boar pee? All I knew was I didn’t get any bacon that morning.

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                My dad grew up on a farm in Nebraska during the depression and raised hogs. Back then they didn’t castrate till the “jewels” had dropped. Occasionally only one had dropped so it was neither a barrow nor a stag after castration. He called it a ridgling. I remember one time when I was a kid he was frying up some bacon and he suddenly threw it in the trash can. My mom asked why and he said that bacon came from a da*n ridgling can’t you smell the boar pee? All I knew was I didn’t get any bacon that morning.

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                marzig20 We’ve been color coding our pork packages for a couple reasons, this being one of them. We were hoping to keep track of which animal produced certain cuts of meat, but we’ll be harvesting some intact boars @ 6-7mo so we want to make sure if they have any off flavor we want to be able to separate that meat.

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                • Ridley AcresR Ridley Acres

                  marzig20 We’ve been color coding our pork packages for a couple reasons, this being one of them. We were hoping to keep track of which animal produced certain cuts of meat, but we’ll be harvesting some intact boars @ 6-7mo so we want to make sure if they have any off flavor we want to be able to separate that meat.

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                  Ridley Acres my dad would pick the worst time to tell his farm stories. We had just sat down to dinner with some roast pork I had cooked. He said when the weather got really cold his hogs would stop putting on weight. So his dad and him would go down to an auction and buy the worst looking horse they could find that would still be able to walk back to their farm for $5. They would put it down and skin it and let the hogs eat it. He said that really helped em put some weight on. Then they would sell the hide for $5. My ex wife about threw up and couldn’t finish dinner. Boy was my mom mad at him.

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                    I’ve had goat, easy to get at a Halal (Islamic) market. Tasted to me like lamb.

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                    • marzig20M marzig20

                      Ridley Acres my dad would pick the worst time to tell his farm stories. We had just sat down to dinner with some roast pork I had cooked. He said when the weather got really cold his hogs would stop putting on weight. So his dad and him would go down to an auction and buy the worst looking horse they could find that would still be able to walk back to their farm for $5. They would put it down and skin it and let the hogs eat it. He said that really helped em put some weight on. Then they would sell the hide for $5. My ex wife about threw up and couldn’t finish dinner. Boy was my mom mad at him.

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                      marzig20 That’s both disgusting and impressive resourcefulness.

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                      • Ridley AcresR Ridley Acres

                        marzig20 That’s both disgusting and impressive resourcefulness.

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                        Ridley Acres it was during the depression. They had to do whatever it took to survive.

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