If you are vegetarian, don't read any further....

My goats are my pets, but I read your post anyway LOL because I have had (someone else's) roasted goat and admit that it was delicious. Same thing as your husband's experience: old Willie was sacrificed for a huge outdoor party, slow roasted for hours on a huge bbq spit.

The link might help you, or try calling a local butcher/slaughter place for advice.

Here is a link that might be useful: Meat N Place

I think the web site is goatworld.com which lists lots of meat goats and breeders/providers for your area. You can also check the free classified adds on www.hoobly.com. Quality meat is not cheap so beware, you also want clean vaccinated goats to start a small herd so you don't have future problems.

cheribelle,

I don't raise goats and don't know what kind of cuts to ask for (maybe the same as you would with beef?), but I can tell you that the goat(chevon)I have eaten was quite delicious. One dish was made in a kind of barbeque style. Think crockpot, tomato type sauce. Another was a curry. I had it when I went to a goat seminar with one of the vets I worked for, and we were treated to lunch after the classroom and tour of the farm at a local college. Here is a link to a Word cookbook for using chevon from www.meatgoats.com

Here is a link that might be useful: American Meat Goats Association Cookbook

I have to admit that I LOVE goat meat. I also don't know what cuts to ask for, etc, and have never prepared it myself. I work with many hispanic families, and they eat goat meat quite frequently. I've had goat tacos (their version of barbque, called "barbacoa") and it is a New Years Day tradition in Mexico to eat goat, so I've had goatmeat every Jan 1st for the past 7 years. MMMMMMM! It's also good in stews, and as mentioned before, curry.

Here in KY, many farmers who had raised tobacco for years are switching to meat goats as a "crop" b/c of falling tobacco prices and rising goat meat demand. In addition to our big hispanic population (mainly caused by the horse and tobacco industries), there is a popular pizza chain that uses goat meat in their pepperoni. I will not mention their name, but lets just say they have better pizza, better price.....

Goat meat is delicious! The cuts would be similar to lamb and I cook it the same way I would cook lamb.

Helen

We raise goats strickly for meat and milk. We butcher them ourselves, like a deer. For the most part we ground the meat up like hamburger, but the nice round muscles I sliced up like medallion steaks, and cooked them in the crock pot after browning them in a skillet. Add some gravy and you have an excellent meal. I have also used a roast part and sliced it up and made goat jerky out of it.
Anyway as long as the goat isn't much over a year old the meat will be fine. We never butcher over ten months old, so the meat is super good.