Radical Animal Husbandry

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Animal raising with a environmentally-conscious, high welfare, ethical solarpunk lean. Topics may include:

-Home-reared meat animals

-Raising animals for sustainable fibers (alpaca, sheep, etc)

-Using every part of an animal

-Sharing what your animals produce with your community

-Preservation of heritage animal breeds

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Question about goats (slrpnk.net)

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I am working on a story in which a group of well-organized squatters are practicing agriculture in a suburban development. They keep goats that graze on nearby grassy areas and I wanted to know what is done with herd sires when they age out of breeding. Everything I can find talks about male kids and wethers, but there’s nothing about sires except that older male goats’ meat tastes bad.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

(reminds me of guerrilla grazing)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Old female goat meat doesn't taste great either, but I guess you can make a stew out of it or so.

On the farm I grew up on we didn't have goats. But we had sheep and the elderly ones still provided some wool and generally kept the herd together so at least in my memory they were kept around mostly as it didn't really matter cost wise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, I believe that non-castrated male goats will fight younger bucks which is why they would need to be removed. I think stew or dog food would be the most reasonable uses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nooo, best feed it to the watch dogs. You would have to be really hungry to enjoy and old male goat even in a stew. Source: had to kill and butcher one because it broke its leg.

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