[jaykay]

Can't keep them all, but can give them a good life first.

exactly 

[Blinkers]

Awwwww, well done Dogwalker 

[Dogwalker]

Another first this morning, just ringed him all by myself.
Borrowed the elastrators from my neighbour, his grandson offered to come and help but I thought it best without an audience especially a 15 year old.

[tizaala]

Well done again , as long as they were both in the sack it should be OK. Waiting for the next lot now.

[tizaala]

By the way Debbie, did you see that Rose joined last night ?.....

[Dogwalker]

she told me she'd spoken to you and said she would when I phoned her just after you had.

[suzanne@waterfall]

Why?
 I sent a group of 4 males to Boher last December. They send in-kid female goats to Africa, my boys got the good job!

[Dogwalker]

Are you vegan?

There'll always be more male animals than are needed to impreganate females,  if we want milk, eggs etc there's going to be surplus males.  Sorry if that offends you but I'm an omnivore and believe it is OK to eat meat.  I prefer to eat meat I have raised myself and know the animals have had a good as natural as possible life up to a humane slaughter.

[suzanne@waterfall]

You are right of course, but I just couldn't eat my own animals.
I take your point that you know they have had a good life up till then.
But personally, I couldn't.

[Dogwalker]

I think when the time comes this one will be the most difficult because he's the first big animal (not bird) born here but This life is something I have always wanted to try so there's no point being squeamish when it comes to it.  It was difficult when the pigs went off last autumn but only for a couple of days till the meat came back.

[Lesley Silvester]

You are right of course, but I just couldn't eat my own animals.
I take your point that you know they have had a good life up till then.
But personally, I couldn't.

When I first started goat keeping, I went to someone for advice and she said that she knew people who swapped kids at slaughter time so they took each other's to the abbatoir and ate each others.  That's one way round the problem.