Anyone here eat goat?
 

After the funeral, yesterday....I went over and spent some much needed time with my father in law at his house. We always get around to talking about what he sees on his property (it's relatively close to where I hunt) as far as game goes. More to come....

I was talking to my principle landowner a month or so ago. He walks the outlying roads, for exercise, mornings and evenings. He's told me, already, of an albino doe that's holding in the land I just gained access to. That's great to know....with the season looming. He also told me of sighting an animal at a distance......that he couldn't identify. He told me of its size (larger than a whitetail)....and of its characteristics. It sounded, to me, like some sort of exotic that had maybe been in captivity, but had gotten itself free. Puzzling......

Back to my father in law and our visit....

Bob was telling me of a strange sighting he had a couple of weeks ago. He saw two "deer" standing at the corner of his property....eating honeysuckles. He went out to get a closer look (because they seemed like really big deer)....and said he stopped in his tracks when he realized they were GOATS.....lol. He said they were a pair (Nanny and Billy)....and that they were a lot larger than the deer in our area. The billy had horns that curved around....much like a mtn goat's would.

We talked of where they came from....and how they got to be in the "wild". He said he'd heard about these two for a couple years, now....and that they'd seemingly "escaped" from a farm several miles away.

Given the thread I started yesterday ("Weird" stuff coming down the trail).....I could only imagine seeing these two while perched in a tree. I admit I got to thinking.....

Does anyone eat goat? :D

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I killed a Spanish Ram a few years back. It was horrible tasting, I mean there was nothing good about it. I tried the back straps, tasted like crap. I tried it ground up, tasted like crap. I even tried to mix some with deer in summer sausage batch, tasked like crap. Now these were wild rams, so I don't know if that makes a difference or not. I have had ram on Gyros and that was really good. I guess maybe it depends on the type of goat/ram?

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Ram/Goat=Yuk

I shot a Corsican /sp? Ram a while back....gross.

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I have a some family/friends that are Philipino and it is a pretty common dish and common at their grocers. They call deer "american goats". One gentleman in particular loves deer hide, removes the fur, seasons it and fries it like pork rinds.

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I tend to eat a lot of crow lately[&:]

never tried Goat, Lamb, but not goat

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About 10 years ago I was rifle huinting when about 6-8 goats came past on a flat below me. I'm not sure where they came from, but after all of the racket they were making, I lost all confidence in seeing any deer and I pondered shooting as many of them as I could.......[:@]

I decided not too since I was hunting on someone else's lease.....

I forgot all about that

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In my former life I worked for a large landscaping company that employed a lot of Mexican laborers. As part of our annual company "Summer" party they would cook up some goat meat on the grill. I ate my fair share of it, but never really enjoyed it. I always thought it was a bit greasy and stringy. They also chopped up the internal organs, stuffed them inside the stomach, and cooked that too. I forgot what it was called, but it wasn't very good either. To each their own I guess, but I'll pass on the goat meat from here on out.

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Yes, and I must admit it is the worst flavored meat I have ever comsumed. Young ones are decent, but anything older, particularly the billy, taste horrible and is extremely tough. I am sure it is possible to make it palitable but I have yet to find the sauce that does the trick.

The question is though, would you mount that set of horns?;)

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Thebreed of goat determines if the meat is good or not.

I've got a friend who raises a specific type of goat andthey are excellent grilled or smoked. I can't remember what type of goat it is though, but I'll try to look it up.

I killed a barbarisou (sp?) ram a long time ago on an exotic hunt and the meat was pretty nasty.

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nope never tried it :Dno desire to either :eek:

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Ya gotta admit....it WOULD be a funny conversation piece!....lol

We have our fair share of Mexican descendants around here......and if I knew of a needy family....I'd surely "think" about shooting one of them.

Otherwise.....I guess a good old fashioned photo op. might just have to suffice.;)

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I've nevr eaten it myself but a friend of mine used to raise one goat per year. He would cook it until the meat fell apart (he probably pressure cooked it for three days) and then he seasoned it and used it in tacos and taquitos.

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ive never had goat, but heard it sucked.
good luck with that albino by the way;)

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Down in Texas I saw a real nice spanish goat with horns that looked to be about 4' from tip to tip. I thought about stalking after it but the thing was about 100 yards away and I wasalready choking onit's smell. I decided there was no way, should I actually kill it, that I'd be willing to put any part of it in my luggage for the flight home. [:'(]

Back at camp I asked the guide how they tasted and he replied "You how they smell, that's about how they taste."

It would have beena neat skull mount tho'.

On that same trip I did shoot a nice corsican ram.So did my ex. SoI ended up with two rams worth of meat. By itself the meat was completely nasty. Some of it I ground up and made into gyro meat. It was okay that way.
I'd also put some of the meat in a pot with water and seasonings and boiled it for awhile and then changed out the water and boiled it some more and then changed out the water and then after the third water change it wasn't 'ramy' any more. I'd then chop it up, season it, fry it and made enchiladas out of it. It was 'good' that way, but anything would be good after that much trouble.
That first change of water smelled so nasty that it actually would make me gag. ...and if it gags me... that's really something. [:'(][:'(][:'(]

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Ahhhh the goat story... one of my favorites to share!

My best friend Kevin, and our other buddy James went to (of all places) West Virginia to hunt deer back in the mid-late 90s (we were like sophomores in High School). Apparently they were walking down an old abandoned coal mine railway track when two does ran across about 100 yards down from them. If I recall Kevin was shooting a Mosin Nagant 7.62x54R and James an Enfield .303. Both of them had iron sights. They each shot once at the deer on their respective sides. Kevin's fell dead at the shot and James' ran down into the woods about 50 yards and expired. Upon close inspection.... sure enough... a pair of brown nanny goats.... perfect imposters of deer to boot. After contemplating their situation they figured that they'd bring them back to my Dad... since he is a hell of a cook... figuring that Mr. Martel can make anything taste good. And I must admit.... with a little Cavender's..... it was pretty damn good.... it actually reminded me of lamb.

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I honestly wonder Jeff if it's some sort of exotic something. Goats aren't bigger than deer at all. We have goats at camp (see a picture of Blanch White and her kids below [8D]) and I've been around goats my entire life almost and never seen one that is even as big as a deer, much less bigger. Never eaten one, but have eaten lots of goat cheese!!

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CABRITO!!! YUMMY TACOS!!! EDIT: Preparation is the key. Some of my Mexican friends can really prepare a tasty goat!

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Aoudads? Maybe?

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I was born and raised on goat meat and milk.

A billy is gonna taste like crap and tough.

We used to castrate the young billy's ( about a week old )we did not want to breed and when old enough we bucthered them.

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I have no idea, guys. I can't wait to see one, though.

Could be an aoudad. That's exactly (remembering back) what my taxidermist One of them)thinks they are (he hunts an adjacent farm).

RJ....the does here are small.Across the street from my home......my neighbor'shave a BUNCH (15?) of goats....and I agree that they're small. Would being in the "wild" do anything to allow them to grow larger?

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Jeff, Whack that Billy and get him mounted!

Whack the Nanny and eat her;)

Dan

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I have eaten plenty of goat. As a general rule if it is quite young it will taste good.
The meat can be quite "goaty" tasting sometimes, so to reduce this i soak the meat in brine overnight with a small amount of baking soda added to the water. This draws the blood out of the meat and makes it less gamey and more tender.

Good luck

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I have had goat along time ago, it was alright if I was starving to death...

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Tell us the truth you let this critter outta the barn, and fence before you climbed into your barnyard stand!!!! Why would anyone want to hunt near a barn![:'(]

Opps I meant to reply under latest, not sure how I did it here.

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Some of the best soft tacos I ever had came out of the bowls of a mexican section of San Antonio. They were made from goat meat. Just wonderful things.

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I had baby goat, or "goat veal" in Portugal this Summer while I was there for work. I was kind of disappointed. I was hoping for a unique taste but it was pretty much just like tender pork shoulder. I would think the bigger and older the tougher and nastier it would be.

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All I can say is given the choice of eating one, shoot the nanny!

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Ate goat in Bosnia that was roasted on a spit. The locals in small villages sold that and some kind of liquor made of wild plums on the side of the road for money since they were impoverished. I thought it was very good actually. No idea what kind of goat, but I think it is like any other game; it matters more in how you care for the meat when you dress it out and then how you prepare it. There are cultures out there in the world that can make a many meats that are considered inedible by westerners taste good because they know how to take care of it when they dress it and how to prepare it.

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Y a a F

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My parents and my step Dad's brother have race horse's and they keep goats around there farm and at the race track, It helps calm the horse's. Dont know how or why. When I was in Oklahoma this summer, to see them,we went to the horse trake and there where goats at every barn, I asked, what for? and thats what he said.