bigrich wrote:Bent Arrow wrote:bigpete wrote:Simple way of avoiding Q fever....just take legs and back straps,then you don't have to gut the animals:)
This is pretty much what I do. I know I miss a bit of meat, but not enough to loose sleep over.
Same as I do. Not enough meat on the front legs for the amount of effort to carve up IMHO
Bludy hell richo-keep em for me mate...
or better still take me with you & ill carry em out...!!
I dont understand this "not enough meat on fronts" that people think about goats...?
The shoulder meat is bludy beatiful...!!..& very easy to cut off...!!
Sure the front legs dont appear to be a huge hunk of meat, but there is still a decent amount of it...
They do take up a bit of room if have to carry a few goats worth of legs out, but i just try bone em out there n then if ive knocked too many over....
& they are sure easy enough to bone out on a board once back to camp or home...
Here is a boned out shoulder/upper front leg, with shanks.
Sometimes i bone out shanks, sometimes cook em bone in for somethin to knaw on after...either way they bludy dynamite..
- Boned out shoulder of goat & 2 shanks
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The entire boned out front leg of a decent kid weighs nearly the same as a boned out rear leg-the difference with this goat was around 100 grams less--bugger all in my book...
Its just the carry out space &/or time to bone out thats any issue...but i rekon its worth it.
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