The time has come to think about advertising my Anglo Nubian kids. Very hard, as I have some favourites, not least Little Un, who is still very small, and coming to me for extra bottles!!
I have two males, and 4 females in total. I have made contact with a lady who buys Nubian males,she has a big herd in Lancashire, and a very successful by all accounts, goat meat business. But, the more I think about it, the more sense it makes to keep one, or both males for eating myself.
I have got rather attached to one of the males who was bottle fed, and I have yet to convince myself I could actually eat something I have been so close to. The other male I am not bonded to, so maybe could cope with him in my freezer. There is no way my husband would eat goat meat, whether mine or anyone else's, and he would find this idea horrific.
Just wondered if anyone else bottle fed their kids, or indeed lambs, and then ate them, and how did you cope?
Looking at the prices of goat meat, I suppose I could always chicken out towards the end, and still make some money selling my fat billies on?!! That seems daft I know when I have reared them. Just a get out clause for me thats all if I find I cannot go through with it. But then of course, I have another few months of getting attached, which may be worse. ......