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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Animal Care.

For this BB, you will slaughter and clean a goat.

Related Threads and Articles:
- How to Kill and Butcher a Goat
- Humane Slaughter

Before Animals Feed Us, Animals are to be Raised with Care and Dignity:
- A Primer on Raising Goats
- Goats and Permaculture
- Raising Goats Off the Grid



For this BB, the minimum requirements are:
-Start with 1 Live Goat
-Killed in a humane manner
-Processed and properly stored within an hour

To document your completion, provide proof of the following as pics or video (less than two minutes):
-Living Goat
-Goat after slaughter, depicting the method used
-Organs separated into suitable for human consumption / not suitable for humans consumption
-Goat hide
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Can I just ask, does the person trying for the badge have to be the one that actually pulls the trigger on the captive bolt gun?

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goat killing. Goats were killed with a .22 gun. In the photos is twice the amount for the offal/guts.
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Paul Fookes approved this submission.
Note: I certify this BB complete. Really good pictures. Well dressed carcass

 
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