Hello community
Last week our goat gave birth to triplets. Soon after she gave birth she became very tired. I figured this was normal and i spoke with a fellow goat owner on island and she told me this is normal and it can take a while for the goat to rebound. Well about 36 hours later she was dead. I had started to think it would happen so i prepared myself for it when i went to bed. Next morning is when i found her and it took me a few hours to buck up the courage to butcher her up.
She was a wonderful milker, wonderful friendly goat. She was the herd queen and she was social. It was easy to be around her and she was fun. It is all of the walks with her that i will miss.
I had a huge cry skinning her and taking her organs out. It was hard to cut the head off.
Here she is while giving birth to the second baby.
Here she is hanging, she was heavy!
butchered up.
It turns out she was way overweight, her cavity was filled with fat... needless to say it turned into lard, using the slow cooker.
So i decided to try and take some of the hair off of her head before i make it into stock. I thought why not use a small
rocket stove made from bricks.
Here is her head
Burning the fur off
I decided to do the feet the same way
After about an hour of turning her on the fire and scraping. And after washing/scrubbing her in the sink i have a much cleaner head to deal with. Now into the stock pot!
So not only did she
feed me with her yummy
milk when she was alive, now she is feeding me with yummy fat and nice bone broth. Along with meat for the freezer.
Momma you will be missed.