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fiestyredhead331

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • NW Highlands
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my 1st kid gone slaughter
« on: June 25, 2014, 01:20:26 am »
he was our first home born kid to our 1st goat and was always destined for the meat market but I am still devastated. Despite all my efforts to not get attached he managed to worm his way into my heart big time.
Last night was worse because I knew if I really wanted to I could stop it but now that I know the deed's been done and it's too late it's a little easier.
I am having his hide tanned so he'll always be with me as he was one very special boy.

I was never like this with lambs/sheep but goats really are a breed apart and I suppose I now know how I can expect to feel next time around  :'(
keeper of goats, sheep, pigs, ducks, chickens, turkeys, dogs, cats, goldfish and children, just don't ask me which is the most work!

Trixie

  • Joined Mar 2014
  • Lincolnshire
Re: my 1st kid gone slaughter
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2014, 08:57:19 am »
I know I will feel exactly the same!  Our boy is only 8 days old and a right character already he is destined for slaughter if I can't find him a home but have just advertised him on my local smallholding site hoping that someone might want him as a companion goat! I will be heartbroken if not as he is our 1st too and yes they are so different to other animals.

jinglejoys

  • Joined Jul 2009
Re: my 1st kid gone slaughter
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2014, 11:32:34 am »
Just think of what happens to the castrates that aren't taken to slaughter by their owners but passed on...and passed on...and passed on till they end up being slaughtered in a back garden in B'ham ;) yours was lucky it was cared for

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: my 1st kid gone slaughter
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2014, 12:36:44 am »
Both my twin girls will be going to slaughter when they are older. It will be the second time I've had animals slaughtered and I can't say I'm looking forward to it but it has to be done.

fiestyredhead331

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • NW Highlands
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Re: my 1st kid gone slaughter
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2014, 08:19:48 am »
I have to keep reminding myself that most of this years kids are going the same way but the ones that I know are going keeping climbing on me and being too cute.
I sent 2 pigs down on the same day as my boy and I never gave them a second thought  :innocent:

I'm not sure how I'll feel when he arrives back in a box full of bags but I am looking forward to getting his hide back, he was pure white and fluffy
keeper of goats, sheep, pigs, ducks, chickens, turkeys, dogs, cats, goldfish and children, just don't ask me which is the most work!

Mays

  • Joined Jul 2010
Re: my 1st kid gone slaughter
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2014, 08:34:25 am »
I am fortunate there is a local farmer breeding meat goats, so he will take all my surplus males to fatten so I don't get attached, however I have kept one back, de horned and castrated and intend to keep him as a pet and companion for the billy

clydesdaleclopper

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: my 1st kid gone slaughter
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2014, 09:28:27 am »
Mays, who is it that takes the males?
Our holding has Anglo Nubian and British Toggenburg goats, Gotland sheep, Franconian Geese, Blue Swedish ducks, a whole load of mongrel hens and two semi-feral children.

Mays

  • Joined Jul 2010
Re: my 1st kid gone slaughter
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2014, 11:08:13 am »
Mays, who is it that takes the males?

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