The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Lesley Silvester on February 04, 2013, 11:10:48 pm
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To all those sceptics who thought I couldn't do it, Curry went for slaughter this morning. Ok, I admit that Debbie Dogwalker actually took him but I let her. I coped better than I thought I would until the other tow started calling for him this morning and that nearly finished me off.
Next time will be easier.
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:hug: :hug: Well done you for following it through. He has gone for the purpose he was intended from the start.
( It really brings home to me how hard this must be after following his mischief on here over last year :hug: I have admiration for you. )
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Oh :hug:
Must be really hard for you as he's been a big part of your life for a while now, I too have admiration for you. I will have to do the same at some point with a male kid x
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How brave. Well done.
I have my first 2 boer boys who are now 10 months old and I am so fond of them. They have such characters. I get as far as thinking that I will phone up the abbatoir but thats as far as I get. I tell myself when the next batch of kids are born I will not get attached.
I am bad enough when I sold the girls on in the summer.
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Oh well done :hug: :hug:
It sucks, but you have done it so very very well done :trophy: :trophy:
Next time will be easier, promise. Never get EASY but it does get easier :hug:
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Well done :hug:
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I find it's easier to do it if the boys are up to no good and you get a bit :rant: with them, then it's easier to think 'that's it, they have to go' and you know it makes sense. That doesn't always co-incide with the abbatoir booking system though :-\
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Well done you :hug: .
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:hug: It must have been hard :hug:
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Well done! Take a :bow: .
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well done ... he had a good life with you and now will pay you back...circle of life and all that :hug:
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It is hard but well done :thumbsup:
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Very brave and well done :thumbsup:
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I think you did very well too.
It was the very trusting way my little billy kid followed me into and then out of the trailer that got to me.
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Well done MGoM :hug: :hug: :hug:
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Well done :thumbsup: It's not easy and neither should it be, but if we want to keep milking goats, we have to eat the billy kids really.
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Well done! :thumbsup: and once the meat comes back it's not him anymore... and it will taste superb.
Marinated and roasted leg... :yum: :yum: :yum:
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well done,
farewell Curry, hello curry ... and casserole, and roasts
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Well done. We will have to do this soon and I'm not looking forward to it at all.
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well done. :thumbsup:
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I still have this to come with Goats but with the other animals I have managed to accept once the animal has gone its gone then we go shopping a few days later for a lovely box of meat :innocent:
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Well done, :thumbsup: it must have been hard, something I'm gonna have to do at some point
But I do love a good goat curry :excited:
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It did help that Debbie and I were in the same position. What was really hard was today when I had to ring the abbatoir to tell the how I wanted him butchered. The butcher was telling me what a great goat he was, as in well covered for this time of year when a lot of animals are thinner and obviously well fed, and I had to keep reminding myself that we were just talking about some meat, not my boy.
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Aww :hug:
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Oh heck, that must have been so hard :hug:
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Well done .....its so hard to do with goats- they do worm their way into your affections. I do tend to sell my males when they are small, so I do not get attached.
Curry had a good life with you, and thats the important thing. I will not be joining you for the goat curry - one thing I cannot eat.....curry of any description :)
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I am looking forward to the curry with a small c. :yum:
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I used to eat curry goat in Leic, it was more an Afro Caribbean thing but lovely!!
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Well done Lesley, it must have been very hard I never thought you would do it but "circle of life" and all that sort of thing eh? Enjoy the meat ......
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Huge pat on the back. As i say to my three year old (and to myself really!); we feed them and look after them and then they are turned into meat.
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Huge pat on the back. As i say to my three year old (and to myself really!); we feed them and look after them and then they are turned into meat.
and they feed us.
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Exactly. It's the simplest way I could find to answer "where have my sheep gone?". There was a bit of an awkward moment when the goldfish died recently and she asked if it were meat.....
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Oh dear. Fish fingers anyone?