Do any of you eat goat meat?

[SilliamWhale]

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[Dr. Alkathene]

Get the odd goat curry made by the other half’s friend. She has said it’s more difficult to find / buy goat meat.

 

[Lili]

Yes. It was ok, darker and denser than lamb, but the children weren't keen. A bit too close to home! I think Boer goats are the best breed for meat.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

 

[curlietailz]

I looked into keeping goats for meat. I think the stats say goat is the most consumed red meat in the world
Boer defo best in my opinion and IF the hippy lot mean beef is reduced then I reckon goat will boom

 

[Stewart Setter]

I've not had goat since I was in south america many years ago... if my butcher sold it, it'd buy it.
Trick with goat meat is to slow cook it to keep it tender(ish) and have a good sauce.

Picked up so goat milk recently. taste is a little weird but a small glass at night... no more acid indigestion.

 

[davidroberts30]

@Damomc can offer you some local meat

 

[Pigken]

We reared some dairy billies last year, just like pet lambs with huge horns, sold most into Bradford through friend from Middlesbrough, but very little in them. Kids thought was great until one decided daughter s hair was tasty. Last 2 we had did for our freezer, £42 for slaughter and butcher at our usual place!!!!! Where as others were £15 ethnic process at big abboitour, when ever her indoors cooks any it just smells of Billy goat and can not bring self to try but kids love it say its mix of tastes and texture of beef and lamb. Would rear more but can not source the things. Am led to believe boer is a little more refined. Think if in curry pot you would struggle tell identify meat.

 

[Pigken]

 

[Hesstondriver]

like many things i'm sure i've eaten it without knowing. I don't eat stuff i don't like- so i must presume it was ok

When in china i made the mistake of asking what something was and the reply was "its like chicken" clearly meaning it wasn't chicken. In the same way horse is just like beef , in the eyes of Tesco !!

 

[Gulli]

Just starting to produce it here, I really like goat meat and milk a handful for cheese so kept the kids this year. Will see if they ever finish. Doubt theres much profit in the dairy ones though

 

[milkloss]

Grandma never let us have goats on the farm when we were kids. She used to say they stink.

 

[vantage]

@Damomc can offer you some local meat

Would that be Moat Goats?

 

[davidroberts30]

Would that be Moat Goats?

 

[Danllan]

I have eaten huge amounts of the stuff and, provided it is young and cooked properly, it's fine. In East Africa they braai it, nyama choma, usually with a lot of salt and some pepper on and then dipped in something spicy. Goat curry is alright too. There could be a theme here, in trying to hide the flavour. (That written, some from the Windies go for 'green' chicken... )

There is a huge black bloke who often sells 'rasta' stuff in Carmarthen on market days, he keeps urging me to stock goats. He reckons there is a decent market for it in Swansea and Cardiff. I'm fine with the money, but I really don't like goats and don't want them here.

However, I've got a bit of off-land that's too small, steep and awkward to do much else with, so I might look into the returns that can be got and go from there. But I don't like goats...

 

[SilliamWhale]

I looked into keeping goats for meat. I think the stats say goat is the most consumed red meat in the world
Boer defo best in my opinion and IF the hippy lot mean beef is reduced then I reckon goat will boom

Is this actually true? I don't think it can be

 

[Danllan]

Is this actually true? I don't think it can be

I've no idea of the stat's, but goats are the weeds of the animal kingdom, they survive and even prosper anywhere, so it wouldn't surprise me if it's true.

Africa has them from top to bottom, apart form those belonging to our workers - which had to have tape collars (colour regularly changed!) and be accompanied by someone we knew - we'd get hundreds at a time across our place.

And they have weird eating habits too, I've shot them taking the driest of dry 'greenery' from halfway up a kopje, with lush crops only fifty yards away - and then opened them up and found lush crops inside them too... Point is, they eat anything!

The rain has stopped!

 

[steveR]

The rain has stopped!

No it hasn't!!! Just about to go walk the stock... stopping in now!

 

[steveR]

I have eaten huge amounts of the stuff and, provided it is young and cooked properly, it's fine. In East Africa they braai it, nyama choma, usually with a lot of salt and some pepper on and then dipped in something spicy. Goat curry is alright too. There could be a theme here, in trying to hide the flavour. (That written, some from the Windies go for 'green' chicken... )

There is a huge black bloke who often sells 'rasta' stuff in Carmarthen on market days, he keeps urging me to stock goats. He reckons there is a decent market for it in Swansea and Cardiff. I'm fine with the money, but I really don't like goats and don't want them here.

There was a load of West African guys acting as Security on the land where we had a Solar farm built a couple of years ago, and they kept asking me for goat. The one seemed to be a bit of an entrepreneur and offered to take any production off me. Ready market locally according to the one small butcher I spoke to, but no supply really... As I told him, no profit either probably!

 

[BobbySusie]

I would not eat any meat with balls like that on it. Stink of testosterone