I certainly would. It tastes great. It would taste better if I knew it was feral goats that I was eating. Just doing my bit for the Australian environment.
There appears to be little effort to get rid of the feral animals in Australia. We all have to eat, so why not help the native animals by eating the ferals?
I'd also eat feral: camel, donkey, deer, pigs, rabbits and hares. After hunting foxes for money I know that they stink so I wouldn't eat them. I don't know about cats and they are the biggest threat to Australian wildlife.
rgren2 said
10:14 AM Mar 12, 2022
Feral goats used to be a big problem in western nsw and farmers would welcome someone to cull. Not so now, the goats are a big money earner.
oldbloke said
10:25 AM Mar 12, 2022
Young goat tastes great.
Many more would be shot if it was permitted. The problem is more and more public land is becoming National Parks or various types of "park". Shooting is not generally permitted in these areas. The State forests are shrinking. Goats, pigs, deer, feral dogs & foxes then build up numbers in these "parks". What else would you expect?
Governments spend little to "manage" these animals. Sometimes pull a lever and get incredibly expensive helicopters in to do the work hunters would be happy to do for free. Or lay 1080, great, almost kill everything.
The Greene's are constantly pushing for more parks. Then they winge that the natives are being killed by foxes or pigs are destroying vegetation. Or that bush fires are getting out of control, well if the parks are " locked up" and no wood collection is allowed, and no regular burns, what would you expect?
Dogs are so restricted in NPs that they are actively discouraging visitors.
Greenies are dumb.
Victoria and NSW are now the only states where hunting is allowed on public land, and that is slowly shrinking.
Farmers are paying the cost in lost sheep and cattle and ruined pasture.
Thankyou Green party and goodies, goodies.
P.S. In Victoria it's still illegal for the public to shoot feral cats on public land. What a laugh.
peter67 said
11:09 AM Mar 12, 2022
Hit the nail square on the head oldbloke.
ps Buzz, eat a Possum first, they make cats taste great.
Peter_n_Margaret said
11:25 AM Mar 12, 2022
oldbloke wrote:
Many more would be shot if it was permitted. The problem is more and more public land is becoming National Parks or various types of "park". Shooting is not generally permitted in these areas. The State forests are shrinking. Goats, pigs, deer, feral dogs & foxes then build up numbers in these "parks". What else would you expect? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________-
Some parks in SA (notably the Flinders Ranges) are closed for a week each year and members of the Sporting Shooters Association go in for an organised goat eradication shoot.
A problem with promoting goat as a staple meat is that pastoralists on marginal land are farming the ferel goats rather than trying to eliminate them because thy can make good easy money from them. They are terribly destructive of the land.
But I agree we need to do lots more to eliminate ferels of all descriptions.
Cheers,
Peter
oldbloke said
12:21 PM Mar 12, 2022
Yes, SSAA do sometimes get permission to hunt in these areas. Rangers oversee it. But by and large they are close to most hunters all year. Unless you marry someone's daughter. Lol Seems I married the wrong one. Lol. Just joking.
All the decisions are political. No logic.
Hunting, if carried out in traditional ways is very low impact, very safe and environmentally very good.
P.S. I figure every fox removed saves a few hundred birds and who knows how many other natives.
-- Edited by oldbloke on Saturday 12th of March 2022 12:22:41 PM
Bobdown said
12:31 PM Mar 12, 2022
Buzz Lightbulb wrote:
I'd also eat feral: camel, donkey, deer, pigs, rabbits and hares. After hunting foxes for money I know that they stink so I wouldn't eat them. I don't know about cats and they are the biggest threat to Australian wildlife.
A bit like the old joke....
A bloke got fined $1000 for eating a platypus, and he told the judge it was a one off and he wouldn't do it again.
A reporter outside court said 'What did it taste like?'
The bloke replied 'A bit like Koala'
oldbloke said
02:25 PM Mar 12, 2022
Bobdown wrote:
Buzz Lightbulb wrote:
I'd also eat feral: camel, donkey, deer, pigs, rabbits and hares. After hunting foxes for money I know that they stink so I wouldn't eat them. I don't know about cats and they are the biggest threat to Australian wildlife.
A bit like the old joke....
A bloke got fined $1000 for eating a platypus, and he told the judge it was a one off and he wouldn't do it again.
A reporter outside court said 'What did it taste like?'
The bloke replied 'A bit like Koala'
Oldie, but a goldie
Dougwe said
02:42 PM Mar 12, 2022
Ooops, when I read the subject heading I thought you were going to tell us a way of getting rid of ferrel campers and we have all come across many of those, I know I have.
As for your ferrel topic. I only just this morning read a small article asking if you/I would eat goat I thought for a couple of minutes and decided I would. Somewhere, sometime, someone, had to try lamb, cow, pig, roo, chicken, duck and so it goes on. We eat all those now so why not goat
Keep Safe out there.
Bicyclecamper said
02:48 PM Mar 12, 2022
I have about 1500 feral goats on my place, and eat one a month, and butcher 1 for my daughters family. I wont kill them off, as they are a good money earner. They are the only stock I've got otherthan pets. The place is a fauna reserve primarily. All the animals can live together quite ok, as my place is just over 10,000 acres. I don't live there, I live in town, have a caretaker/manager out there to look after the place.
Corndoggy said
04:35 PM Mar 12, 2022
At first glance when you said ferals I though you meant the not so popular human ones.
Peter_n_Margaret said
05:20 PM Mar 12, 2022
Bicyclecamper wrote:
The place is a fauna reserve primarily.
Sorry, but the goats destroy the flora and the soil. And the neighbours get goats wether they like it, or not.
This is exactly why we have such a serious feral goat problem in this country.
Cheers,
Peter
boab said
07:11 PM Mar 12, 2022
Peter here in the Gascoigne region station owners are have massive problems with feral dogs, some areas they are in such large numbers pastoralists have completely destocked
Peter_n_Margaret said
07:48 PM Mar 12, 2022
Yes, dogs are a serious risk to stock in some areas, but they don't do the direct damage to the environment like goats and pigs.
Those who wish to stock goats (comercially or not) should be forced to erect goat proof fences and accept that any native flora may be destroyed. If that is not acceptable they should be eliminated.
Cheers,
Peter
the rocket said
08:37 PM Mar 12, 2022
Corndoggy wrote:
At first glance when you said ferals I though you meant the not so popular human ones.
Me too. Thats why i clicked on it. Ha ha.
landy said
09:54 PM Mar 12, 2022
P.S. In Victoria it's still illegal for the public to shoot feral cats on public land. What a laugh.
Only if you get caught oldbloke ... Ooooh So many cats and so few recipes .
Buzz Lightbulb said
09:43 AM Mar 13, 2022
the rocket wrote:
Corndoggy wrote:
At first glance when you said ferals I though you meant the not so popular human ones.
Me too. Thats why i clicked on it. Ha ha.
Oh, so I've created my first click bait. Well I'm sorry that I've misled so many of you.
bratboy said
10:53 AM Mar 13, 2022
I must admit i was expecting a story about mullets , VB and burnouts
peter67 said
11:53 AM Mar 13, 2022
In WA substitute VB for Emu Export ( wifebasher )
ps who remembers that old book " 101 uses for dead cats " or did that book go the same way as Dr Zuess?
Thanks Buzz, I like the slingshot one, the cats face :)
Izabarack said
04:11 PM Mar 15, 2022
Buzz Lightbulb wrote:
There appears to be little effort to get rid of the feral animals in Australia.
They could fix the feral horse problem in Kosciusko National Park for no cost if they let the Doggers in to harvest the horses destroying the place.
Locally, we have a deer problem but Fall-of-Shot issues are already making it hard for Council Pest Animal Management officers to shoot more than one a week. Council officers would love to make a serious inroad into the burgeoning deer population but they are in and around residential developments.
oldbloke said
05:37 PM Mar 15, 2022
Izabarack wrote:
Buzz Lightbulb wrote:
There appears to be little effort to get rid of the feral animals in Australia.
They could fix the feral horse problem in Kosciusko National Park for no cost if they let the Doggers in to harvest the horses destroying the place.
Locally, we have a deer problem but Fall-of-Shot issues are already making it hard for Council Pest Animal Management officers to shoot more than one a week. Council officers would love to make a serious inroad into the burgeoning deer population but they are in and around residential developments.
There are plenty of bow hunters out there that may help.
peter67 said
06:30 PM Mar 15, 2022
Way to cruel for any serious consideration.
Izabarack said
07:50 PM Mar 15, 2022
oldbloke wrote:
There are plenty of bow hunters out there that may help.
Council officers are required to use 7.62 and a suppressor. Head shots only. Removal of horses from the NP would be by trapping then trucking to a Knackery. Broadhead arrows do not kill instantly like headshot with a large caliber rifle does. I have no issues with killing feral animals, I only endorse Humane methods of dispatch.
Buzz Lightbulb said
10:34 AM Mar 16, 2022
Some animals need to be shot in the chest to kill. I've seen pigs shot in the head and some walk away dazed. A shot through the heart with a high powered rifle is more likely to kill.
I read this story about Australians eating goat meat:
Goat meat could become a new staple
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-12/goat-meat-could-become-a-new-staple/100894866
I certainly would. It tastes great. It would taste better if I knew it was feral goats that I was eating. Just doing my bit for the Australian environment.
There appears to be little effort to get rid of the feral animals in Australia. We all have to eat, so why not help the native animals by eating the ferals?
I'd also eat feral: camel, donkey, deer, pigs, rabbits and hares. After hunting foxes for money I know that they stink so I wouldn't eat them. I don't know about cats and they are the biggest threat to Australian wildlife.
Many more would be shot if it was permitted. The problem is more and more public land is becoming National Parks or various types of "park". Shooting is not generally permitted in these areas. The State forests are shrinking. Goats, pigs, deer, feral dogs & foxes then build up numbers in these "parks". What else would you expect?
Governments spend little to "manage" these animals. Sometimes pull a lever and get incredibly expensive helicopters in to do the work hunters would be happy to do for free. Or lay 1080, great, almost kill everything.
The Greene's are constantly pushing for more parks. Then they winge that the natives are being killed by foxes or pigs are destroying vegetation. Or that bush fires are getting out of control, well if the parks are " locked up" and no wood collection is allowed, and no regular burns, what would you expect?
Dogs are so restricted in NPs that they are actively discouraging visitors.
Greenies are dumb.
Victoria and NSW are now the only states where hunting is allowed on public land, and that is slowly shrinking.
Farmers are paying the cost in lost sheep and cattle and ruined pasture.
Thankyou Green party and goodies, goodies.
P.S. In Victoria it's still illegal for the public to shoot feral cats on public land. What a laugh.
ps Buzz, eat a Possum first, they make cats taste great.
Some parks in SA (notably the Flinders Ranges) are closed for a week each year and members of the Sporting Shooters Association go in for an organised goat eradication shoot.
A problem with promoting goat as a staple meat is that pastoralists on marginal land are farming the ferel goats rather than trying to eliminate them because thy can make good easy money from them. They are terribly destructive of the land.
But I agree we need to do lots more to eliminate ferels of all descriptions.
Cheers,
Peter
Yes, SSAA do sometimes get permission to hunt in these areas. Rangers oversee it. But by and large they are close to most hunters all year. Unless you marry someone's daughter. Lol Seems I married the wrong one. Lol. Just joking.
All the decisions are political. No logic.
Hunting, if carried out in traditional ways is very low impact, very safe and environmentally very good.
P.S. I figure every fox removed saves a few hundred birds and who knows how many other natives.
-- Edited by oldbloke on Saturday 12th of March 2022 12:22:41 PM
A bit like the old joke....
A bloke got fined $1000 for eating a platypus, and he told the judge it was a one off and he wouldn't do it again.
A reporter outside court said 'What did it taste like?'
The bloke replied 'A bit like Koala'
Oldie, but a goldie
As for your ferrel topic. I only just this morning read a small article asking if you/I would eat goat I thought for a couple of minutes and decided I would. Somewhere, sometime, someone, had to try lamb, cow, pig, roo, chicken, duck and so it goes on. We eat all those now so why not goat
Keep Safe out there.
Sorry, but the goats destroy the flora and the soil. And the neighbours get goats wether they like it, or not.
This is exactly why we have such a serious feral goat problem in this country.
Cheers,
Peter
Those who wish to stock goats (comercially or not) should be forced to erect goat proof fences and accept that any native flora may be destroyed. If that is not acceptable they should be eliminated.
Cheers,
Peter
Me too. Thats why i clicked on it. Ha ha.
P.S. In Victoria it's still illegal for the public to shoot feral cats on public land. What a laugh.
Only if you get caught oldbloke ... Ooooh So many cats and so few recipes .
Oh, so I've created my first click bait.
Well I'm sorry that I've misled so many of you. 
I must admit i was expecting a story about mullets , VB and burnouts
ps who remembers that old book " 101 uses for dead cats " or did that book go the same way as Dr Zuess?
Reminds me of this........
I remember it well. Dad had a copy. Regrettably I think it went to the salvo's.
Great book
I have two books on the 'Official' I hate cats books:
They could fix the feral horse problem in Kosciusko National Park for no cost if they let the Doggers in to harvest the horses destroying the place.
Locally, we have a deer problem but Fall-of-Shot issues are already making it hard for Council Pest Animal Management officers to shoot more than one a week. Council officers would love to make a serious inroad into the burgeoning deer population but they are in and around residential developments.
There are plenty of bow hunters out there that may help.
There are plenty of bow hunters out there that may help.
Council officers are required to use 7.62 and a suppressor. Head shots only. Removal of horses from the NP would be by trapping then trucking to a Knackery. Broadhead arrows do not kill instantly like headshot with a large caliber rifle does. I have no issues with killing feral animals, I only endorse Humane methods of dispatch.
Some animals need to be shot in the chest to kill. I've seen pigs shot in the head and some walk away dazed. A shot through the heart with a high powered rifle is more likely to kill.