@Former-Member@Determined Biggest things I've butchered have been chooks and bunnies, but yes, they do taste better than the shop bought meat.
We try to be a bit self sufficient, but sometimes it's necessary to fall back to supermarkets when situations mean it's not practical.
At one point we had two goats- a nanny for milk plus her kid. In reality, we didn't get much milk from her. problem was, being in town we couldn't separate the kid overnight. She would bawl so loudy that we would have been kept awake, and likely ended up on bad terms with the neighbours. So by morning, there would be less than a litre left... enough for our "kids" breakfast cereal.
We had to rehome the two of them on when I had major surgery. If we got goats again, for one thing, I'd want better fencing with a well designed browsing system; and for another, we'd move any kids on to new owners as soon as they were old enough.
Current animals are; two chooks, three bunnies and a guinea pig. Want to get more chooks and breed the bunnies for meat, but before doing that I need to build better pens for them. The chooks' one is barely big enough for the two we've got, and any baby bunny kits would fall straight through the large mesh on the bottom of the bunny pens. (They sit on the ground, so the mesh is only meant to stop them burrowing out. Raised pens with solid floors would be better for breeding.)
