Can we eat this goat?

[Chickenfever]

I have a 6 month old buckling intended for meat from the beginning but I put off castration until it was too late and he's still intact. He went into rut in October with my buck, not as bad as the buck but still peeing on himself. I've been waiting until he's big enough to justify the cost of processing, and will probably do it towards spring but before he reaches a year old.
So, my question is Can we still eventually eat him? Would the meat taste OK even though he's gone into rut?

 

[Calliopia]

The meat will taste fine.

We had to put down a 2yr old "wether" this summer. Somebody missed one of his bits and he was very bucky. The whole stinky peeing shebang.

You could smell this goat from about 1/2 a mile away if the wind was right and I threw away the clothing I wore when I butchered.


The way I did it.

Head shot, then cut.

I didn't field dress. I basically deboned him while he was hanging. You'll start at the back legs like a deer. Get the skin 90% off and then take the head with the skin. As you skin, be VERY careful to not let the hair touch the meat. Change/clean your knives often as well as your gloves and you'll be fine. Once the meat was off the goat it just smelled like meat.

 

[ThornyRidge]

thanks for painting that picture..

 

[helmstead]

I would go ahead and castrate him now...then you won't have to worry about it later.

 

[Ariel301]

We just put a two year old buck in the freezer due to his unpredictable aggressive fits, he'd be fine one day and then chasing people and tearing up his pen the next. We pretty much ran all the meat through the grinder because it was pretty tough. Tastes good to me, not bucky at all, tastes like deer.

 

[Calliopia]

This one was about 2 years old as well and was turning dangerous. I'm not sure I'd bother with castrating at this point. He's old enough now that it will be a vet job and he may be put on an antibiotic or such to avoid infection from the procedure. And then you'll need to adhere to the withdrawal times for what ever drug he was given.




As to my earlier post. Sorry if I offended, at least I didn't post the pictures. I'm of the mentality that sometimes as much as we love our animals live stock needs to be come dead stock and all we can do is treat them with respect while they are alive and then do the deed as quickly and cleanly as possible so that their death is not a waste.

As much as we love and care for our animals this is sometimes just a fact of farm life. I apologize of I seem callous but it was a post on eating a goat...

 

[freemotion]

As to my earlier post. Sorry if I offended, at least I didn't post the pictures. I'm of the mentality that sometimes as much as we love our animals live stock needs to be come dead stock and all we can do is treat them with respect while they are alive and then do the dead as quickly and cleanly as possible so that their death is not a waste.

As much as we love and care for our animals this is sometimes just a fact of farm life. I apologize of I seem callous but it was a post on eating a goat...

Don't worry about it....the thread title indicated that it was a question about slaughter. Your post was useful.

 

[Calliopia]

I was just worried. My intent was not to offend but to provide clear instructions since I went through the same thing.


Similar to CM having to put down the goat. Sometimes we have to deal with unpleasant things and it's better to go at them fully informed.


He was a pet. It wasn't like it was something I enjoyed.