On eating goat meat

[Hillsvale]

We eat quite a bit of Goat here, and love it I believe worldwide it's the most widely consumed meat. Just not in the USA.

Exactly right - hands down goat is the most consumed meat world wide.

 

[doo dah]

My new job is to find out what kind of goat to buy for meat. I've seen Boers mentioned, does anyone else have a favorite?

Fainters or Myotonic. Because of the Myotonia, the meat is very tender. Also, they are very easy keepers, parasite resistant, and cannot jump fences so very easy to keep fenced. Also, they mostly have a sweet nature, come in just about any color, size and coat length.

Why can't they jump fences? Does that make them harder to hang for butchering?

 

[GLENMAR]

I can't wait to try some goat meat. We will be breeding the girls next year.

 

[Mamaboid]

My new job is to find out what kind of goat to buy for meat. I've seen Boers mentioned, does anyone else have a favorite?

Fainters or Myotonic. Because of the Myotonia, the meat is very tender. Also, they are very easy keepers, parasite resistant, and cannot jump fences so very easy to keep fenced. Also, they mostly have a sweet nature, come in just about any color, size and coat length.

How does the Myotonia make the meat tender?

The following paragraph was taken from the following web sight and explains a whole lot better than I could. Tennessee Meat goats are the original "Fainters", and were later bred with Boers to make a breed called the "Texmaster" which is supposed to have all the good traits of both breeds.

http://www.tennesseemeatgoats.com/
Myotonia, the inherited neuro-muscular condition which causes these goats to stiffen and sometimes fall over when startled, is the reason for the heavy muscling in fullblood Tennessee Meat Goats. The constant contraction and relaxation of these muscles as fullblood Tennessee Meat Goats grow results in very tender meat. The stiffness in no way results in tough meat, but rather just the opposite! These goats simply carry more muscle in relationship to their gross weight. Research done at Virginia State University reveals a meat-to-bone ratio of 4:1, significantly higher than other breeds. Dr. Lou Nuti of Prairie View A&M University's International Goat Research Center north of Houston, Texas, has completed research proving a 6% to 10% greater meat yield is achieved by using a Myotonic buck on other-breed does. This means less waste and more money in the producer's pocket.

The reason they cannot jump fences is because of the stiffness the myotonia causes in their muscles. They simply cannot "spring" into action.

 

[wannacow]

Interesting...

 

[autumnprairie]

Interesting...

X2

 

[doo dah]

Interesting...

X2

x3 thanks for the info

 

[cmjust0]

Tennessee Meat goats are the original "Fainters"

Not really.. As near as I can tell, she started out with myotonics and simply trademarked the name "tennessee meat goats," then started her own tennessee meat goat registry a la ADGA, etc., and poof -- the 'purebred tennessee meat goat' was born. She simply invented a breed, in other words.

But make no mistake -- she most certainly did not invent fainting goats, nor are hers the originals.

 

[Mamaboid]

http://www.tennesseemeatgoats.com/myotonicgoats.html

This is the most informative explanation of the beginnings of the breed that I have found. I guess I should have said they evolved from the first known examples of the breed.