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Savy Walked The Green Mile

March 17, 2008 on 12:28 pm | In goats, boers, dairy, farm, butchering, goat meat | 2455 Comments

I’ve begun to call the walk to the butcher area ‘the Green Mile’ after one of my favorite movies.

Not too long ago. I got some goat meat from a friend of mine, a leg and some ribs. I slow cooked the leg roast and my son and I had it for dinner one night. Some of it was good–gave a hint as to what goat meat should taste like, very tender, sweet meat–but some was REAL gamey tasting. I had just read the thread on the homestead forum about how different kill methods, stress, illness, etc can do that so I had already primed myself not to judge goat meat by that particular instance, and it was bad enough that if I had I wouldn’t have wanted any more. LOL But I know that lady and although she’s a friend, she really doesn’t have good handling practices or killing skills much less clean butchering skills. And I also know that buckling died of ’something’. So anyway, long story short…

Savvy–the doe who killed her triplets last weekend–entered our freezer this morning…boy that was a chore, she was a BIG goat. LOL However, it wasn’t all that bad either, the worst part was how heavy she was to lift up and hang. We shot her, and we put her legs through the tpost and still had a struggle to hoist her up. haha, but Emily’s post on how to do the job (posted on the http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/ forum) was excellent. I had done plenty of other animals, but never a goat, and never a full-sized adult like that, plus never an animal with an udder before, just like Emily said, it cut right off, I was shocked at how easy it was.

Now, for the final result… Savvy hambugers this afternoon were DELICIOUS. Even past the ’son’ test. (Bobby is really cool about eating our animals and such, but he’s very honest about the taste, and that last goat he said was like licking our big buck’s butt, lol, ewww) but he said this was really good.

The last leg of goat that I got from my friend I put in the slow cooker, and you could even smell the ‘goatiness’ while it was cooking. I have a leg roast in there now from Savvy and it smells delicious. We had it for dinner and it was wonderful. Sweet beef taste.

As of now I say…. anyone who hasn’t tried goat yet–you have got to try goat!