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I was in far western NSW for a few years. I went through an 11 month period of unemployment. Thankfully I had access to a large property, with a bit of luck & a bit of experience, goat kept us in meat for all that period. Filled the freezer a number of times.
There are no people going hungry in Australia through no fault of there own, unless its a child that's being raised by a parent who spends all their money on things they shouldn't.
Nobody needs to go hungry in Australia or the world for that matter. If you could ask God why he lets people starve he'd ask you the same question. Stay strong patriots
Simple Living 101: Did Australia have this problem of invasive horses, cattle, goats, rabbits, and such other "domesticated" wild animals when the Aborigines were in charge of the land? Just asking!
I visited a large rural property outside of Pooncarie. The owners had released 6000 feral goats and the manager claimed they had eaten everything to such a degree that there were no natives animals left. Even the rabbits had left.
Goat is one of the best and healthiest low fat meats around and not forgetting its tasty. They are hardy animals and survive in harsh conditions compared to sheep and cattle 🐐
Here in Portugal, they introduced the first wild goats in our main National Park, and celebrated after first breeds. In Australia they are a problem. What a strange world...
Wild and feral is not the same. Goats have nothing to do outside of a farm in Australia. (If you don’t care about them endangering Australian animals, you can maybe introduce predators and wait several years until a balance is restored. But the goats and predators will do some damage, the question is “is that ok?”)
@@lordnessa5893 feral goats need to be taken out. The damage they do. Debark tree's and ruin watering holes. And eat everything. Same with Cain toads and domestic cat's thy kill all the wild life and don't even eat what they kill.
Already got feral chickens but they don't last long because the feral foxes wipe them out . There is feral horses , feral sheep , feral cattle , feral pigs , feral camels , feral water buffalo , feral donkeys , feral goats , feral deer , feral cats , feral dogs , feral rabbits and last but not least some feral people . NT has Banteng cattle but I am not sure if they are indigenous or feral .
Not sure if you heard of the attempt. But yea, a wild controlled population of rhinos in Australia, can help the animals repopulate their numbers. And if they're controlled an watched. It'll be easier to lead them someplace else
@@thejurassicman661 they could even try and find more different places,the Midwest usa if they decided to just throw in a hefty chunk of money (HEFTY) and a lot of acres they could do it
@@MashZ well we shouldn't go too carried away, obviously Australia could not support animals like pandas or tigers,only animals in Africa,or some areas of the middle east would work good,rhinos are a major animal that needs to be saved,elephant numbers are doing good and lions are a bit shakey
I lived in Adelaide, SA for a few years and got invited to a Greek sporting clay shoot, mainly because I was a Muzzle Loading shooter. At lunch time everything stopped and we ate at the club house. They had two spits going on their deck and when I asked what the meat was, it came back as GOAT. I have to admit, it was the best meat I'd eaten in years. I now hunt goat, not to cull, but for my freezer. But yes, goats do ruin good natural habitat. Great video, thanks.
goats, water buffalos, camels, milk & Meat Farms, and rabbits, deer, carp, and fishies farming only for meat all this would be a dollar deal for Australian agricultural
Wild Goat meat has lower bad types of cholesterol, because they aren't farmed an grain fed, they eat the best of how they live natural 'so you should sell it as wild goat meat an charge extra for it!
Camels, rabbits, and goats! All these invasive species introduced by settlers. Makes me think settlers were the ultimate invasive species in Australia.
Wow, the Aussies are very successful at eradication. I've seen another vid of them eradicating European carps from Tasmania, I think. Pretty impressive. Very ingenious methods too, for carp and goats.
It's only certain areas (above weirs/waterfalls and dams) where the carp can be filtered out apparently. It's still a problem in a lot of our rivers. Rabbits are coming back. Feral dogs and cats + foxes may be the worst Aust-wide problem, but the top end has it BAD with pigs and water buffalo. Then central Aust has a bad camel problem. Then there's cane toads, Indian Minors......................... Sorry, I gotta stop. I'm sad now.
Has anyone there tried kale, yes that leafy green that you see in the produce section of a supermarket. Apparently it's deadly for goats. A friend of mine lives next to a hobby farm that has goats. The farmer picked a box of produce waste from a supermarket. Mixed with the lettuce was some kale which she didn't see. She fed it to her goat when she got home, next morning my friend found it dead in the middle of it's paddock.
Boer and woollies are grass eaters. We like brush goats and their favorite feed is mesquite. It has the same feed value (leaves) as clover. Raising it for the pods to fatten livestock is growing. But, pods need to be crushed to help digest the 36% protein beans.
@@christopherwhitney2711 why is that so? One lady mentioned the Hispanics in America and she's right, I've known many who will pay good money to pick and kill their own goat.
Australia also has feral hogs, camels, donkeys etc that can be encashed. In addition the offal from these animals could also generate revenue if exported to countries in where there is demand for it
Ive said this for years. We could export all the feral meat to other countries and we still would'nt eradicate the feral problem. Roos & rabbits. Man we could feed the whole planet.
@@aussiefarmer8741 roos are native though, not introduced, the biggest problem is introduced species, if you think roos are the problem then you’re a certain kind of special that can’t be fixed
I’ve got nothing against herding up feral goats for eating, but ones that have obvious Kashmir or Angora genes should be protected for use in wool herds
When hunting these beasties, I found that only females less than knee high are worth eating as "lamb". Do NOT even touch the big billies (rank). The rest, treat as you would any other game species. Either a long slow wet cook or a fast sautee/grill. Nothing in between.
@@misenplace8442 we sell to some Africans that won't even look at ayoung (6 month) goat. They are used to and like an old animal. The last one we sold was 4 or 5 years old.
@@whoreofdragonstone1031 it doesn't taste much different than lamb when young. The older it gets the more likely to be strong. Goats prefer weed and brush before grass. They are browsers not grazers. That changes the flavor of the meat. Just like a corn or grain fed beef tastes slightly different from a grass fed. Our dairy goats find some weed each fall that makes the milk taste metallically. Can't drink it straight but fine to cook with.
Nice. Australia has a bit of everything. Not just croc's. There is wild pigs, rabbits, horses, camels, goats, dears and more more more. Lots of wild meats
15 plus years ago when I worked on stations my station manager was getting $50 for a billy and $35 for a mature nanny , and another station I contract mustered on outside of leanora wa , melita , kookynie brought a heap of domesticated boer billy goats to breed with the ferals but the feral billys killed them
They may have a commercial value, If you are not managing them and just harvesting them, they are most definitely feral, This is not a bad thing as there would be significant cost in eradication , It could be argued that this is the best of both worlds
I live in the USA. This meat is "free range organic" -- much more expensive than farmed meat and people pay way more for it at expensive grocery stores like Whole Foods.
Funny that some beef farms in several USA states are being asked to shut down recently in spite of people still needing food, all due to irrational behaviour from coops and whatnot freaking out over Columbo Cyrus.
The vast majority of Australian landscape is not suitable for farming sheep and cattle, but perfect for goat and camel. Australians should realise they are no longer in Europe. If they switch from sheep and cattle to Goat and Camel they wont have problems such as drought and disease the way they have with other animals. The quality of the meat is good (perhaps better) and the international market is strong with less competition.
At this point the aussie is not that smart, they need to learned something from somewhere despite arrogantly depends on sheep. Lately become smart after seeing the market.
I spent 24 years in the export meat industry and was at the beginning of the export goat meat era and saw just how much demand there was for this product as we proceed thousands of goats to the U.S. and China. After just watching a video on a problem with camels it's not hard to see that if 2 export dual species meat works were set up, 1 in W.A. the other in outback N.S.W there is definitely an opportunity to create jobs, control 2 ferrel species, and build a sustainable industry to benifit Australia. Come on guys, it's not that hard to do.
How about some African antelope, like the oryx, which would thrive in the desert outback? Their meat is said to be good eating, and low in fat. There are many endangered animals that would thrive in the Australian climate.
Years ago (1980) myself and 3 other soldiers went to the Flinders ranges to shoot goats, we found a farm that would allow us to shoot..., but only his Kangaroo's..., he had tags to cull 10,000 roo's from his property, but we weren't allowed to shoot the goats because the farmer was getting $25 a head for them live..., and that was back then.
One reason they are not ferrel in my country is becàuse right after first sight they would have been converted into BBQ, stake, curry, Soup etc in a matter of an hour
@TheNatureLover Being a jerk is a pretty good description of your comment. If you knew anything at all about the brush fires, you would understand that decades after decades of "environmentalist" (Nature-Lovers) policies that do not allow for controlled burning, leaves the ground littered with an unnaturally abundant amount of fuel. Feral goats would eat most of that fuel and have a definite, positive impact on the wildfire situation. Good question, Jake Husband. Keep them coming!
@@johnshilling2221 that’s a very stupid idea, how bout we do what the bush has evolved to do and burn off regularly, that way the fuel load is kept down, the plants can rejuvenate and germinate and the land goes back to the way it should be
We need to look at goats as a resource in tough times. Shooting them by city people is a huge waste of protein and income for property owners. We never let anybody shoot goats, we muster them up and they are utilised just like any other farming asset.
Patterson lived on the land adjacent to use in Wales, 50+ years ago…………GB. He invented the Buckrake, used to harvest grass for winter feeding for the animals…….any relation to yourself.
@Daniel Sky blue 87 They were the best opportunists, I agree with that. Do you know what cayotes do, They piss and shit in the water so other animals get sick and then they get to fight and eat them when weak.
The question isn’t are they feral, the question is are they still a problem? Feral pigs are seen the same way in the US. They’re a major product for commercial hunting. But are ecologically damaging and fill the niche of other native creatures like the black bear.
In the US, most goat meat is imported from Australia and New Zealand. Local producers can't breed enough to keep up with the market. We sell everything that we can raise and at times have reached out to other breeders to fill an order.
We have some farmers that live about 45mins away that allow their goat herd to free-range around the swampy areas. The area easily rejuvenates itself and the goats get to exhibit their natural tendency to wander. I do find it curious that the goat pest grazing idea hasn't taken off here in Australia because it would be a good alternative to depending on herbicides that plants grow resistant to over time.
How bizarre that the woman suggested the smell of goat is off putting - when for people like us, from Asia, lamb is the most disgusting smelling meat imaginable
Why not have a truck carivan to process camels on location in the outback?? Camels goats wild cattle ect. The free product ; maybe gov sub would leave room for nice profit margins ??
📺Watch the full series here: ruclips.net/p/PL7HSPnTFVAuE8-9WN1eFHS8QvdWcyJaSU
Ep 1: Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 ruclips.net/video/hBJN8BOK4oI/видео.html
Ep 2: Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 ruclips.net/video/VaB9J8JHVxI/видео.html
Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 ruclips.net/video/Aa7Ehl9UcHY/видео.html
Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 ruclips.net/video/qLMehMZWq80/видео.html
Ep 5: Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 ruclips.net/video/ZJGvqmKsApk/видео.html
Ep 6: 160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 ruclips.net/video/778Da7NCF6s/видео.html
Ep 7: Damage, death & disease: devastating effects of wild boars 🐗 ruclips.net/video/t22hkF0A6h8/видео.html
Ep 8: Outback camels: culls and carcasses or milk and meat? 🐪 ruclips.net/video/PTCeqO0g-sM/видео.html
Ep 9: Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways 🐟 ruclips.net/video/lvxJVvFiUGY/видео.html
I was in far western NSW for a few years. I went through an 11 month period of unemployment.
Thankfully I had access to a large property, with a bit of luck & a bit of experience, goat kept us in meat for all that period. Filled the freezer a number of times.
With all the feral animals in Australia, they should have no person going hungry..
There are no people going hungry in Australia through no fault of there own, unless its a child that's being raised by a parent who spends all their money on things they shouldn't.
Nobody needs to go hungry in Australia or the world for that matter.
If you could ask God why he lets people starve he'd ask you the same question.
Stay strong patriots
Probably they don't ... If they don't like 🐐s the can eat kangaroos 😂😅
Just need to send some Mexican and Jamaican chefs and things will be well
Almost any normal domestic animals in every other country haa become invasive in Australia😂
I’m going on a binge here, but it really is beginning to seem like they have no natural animals.
Especially Human
Simple Living 101: Did Australia have this problem of invasive horses, cattle, goats, rabbits, and such other "domesticated" wild animals when the Aborigines were in charge of the land? Just asking!
Swears man!!!
It's the excuse used to kill them.
Goats do well with planned grazing in the scubby paddocks. They actually help regenerate the scrub into grasses with planned grazing.
I visited a large rural property outside of Pooncarie. The owners had released 6000 feral goats and the manager claimed they had eaten everything to such a degree that there were no natives animals left. Even the rabbits had left.
They can help clear out poisonous plants too.
My Grandma bought a farm in the 90s with feral goats crossed with cashmere. My uncle has since taken over but is still harvesting cashmere.
Goat is one of the best and healthiest low fat meats around and not forgetting its tasty. They are hardy animals and survive in harsh conditions compared to sheep and cattle 🐐
kangaroo is what we are meant to be farming and eating in Australia
Native Australian : 👀
Here in Portugal, they introduced the first wild goats in our main National Park, and celebrated after first breeds. In Australia they are a problem. What a strange world...
Oi
Wild and feral is not the same. Goats have nothing to do outside of a farm in Australia. (If you don’t care about them endangering Australian animals, you can maybe introduce predators and wait several years until a balance is restored. But the goats and predators will do some damage, the question is “is that ok?”)
@@lordnessa5893 feral goats need to be taken out. The damage they do. Debark tree's and ruin watering holes. And eat everything. Same with Cain toads and domestic cat's thy kill all the wild life and don't even eat what they kill.
that is an ibex, a different species to the domestic goat.
I will take it from you. do not kill it .Send to USA, @10.50 per pound in US grocery store
Waiting for feral chicken, feral cow, feral wheat, feral paddy, walnut, chickpeas, feral flower..
Feral chickens is definitely the next one lol
I had feral wheat in the lot behind my house when I was a kid.
It still grows along the side of the interstate here.
I've seen feral mint in a creek. The whole creek had mint shrubs.
They do have feral bulls. Look it up.
Already got feral chickens but they don't last long because the feral foxes wipe them out . There is feral horses , feral sheep , feral cattle , feral pigs , feral camels , feral water buffalo , feral donkeys , feral goats , feral deer , feral cats , feral dogs , feral rabbits and last but not least some feral people . NT has Banteng cattle but I am not sure if they are indigenous or feral .
god forbid someone released rhinos in Australia, it would crash the rhino horn market.... wait that actually sounds like a good idea
Not sure if you heard of the attempt. But yea, a wild controlled population of rhinos in Australia, can help the animals repopulate their numbers. And if they're controlled an watched. It'll be easier to lead them someplace else
@@thejurassicman661 they could even try and find more different places,the Midwest usa if they decided to just throw in a hefty chunk of money (HEFTY) and a lot of acres they could do it
I say we release every endangered species in Australia and save them from extinction
@@MashZ well we shouldn't go too carried away, obviously Australia could not support animals like pandas or tigers,only animals in Africa,or some areas of the middle east would work good,rhinos are a major animal that needs to be saved,elephant numbers are doing good and lions are a bit shakey
They could also help fill in for the extinct Diprotodon.
I lived in Adelaide, SA for a few years and got invited to a Greek sporting clay shoot,
mainly because I was a Muzzle Loading shooter.
At lunch time everything stopped and we ate at the club house.
They had two spits going on their deck and when I asked what the meat was, it came back as GOAT.
I have to admit, it was the best meat I'd eaten in years.
I now hunt goat, not to cull, but for my freezer.
But yes, goats do ruin good natural habitat.
Great video, thanks.
We need to just turn Australia into the world's largest Free Range Farm!
It already is
Keep them out of the winery vineyards though. My only request. 🍷
😂
@@MrBillFold If they ate the grapes we wouldn't need to marinate them
goats, water buffalos, camels, milk & Meat Farms, and rabbits, deer, carp, and fishies farming only for meat all this would be a dollar deal for Australian agricultural
Wild Goat meat has lower bad types of cholesterol, because they aren't farmed an grain fed, they eat the best of how they live natural 'so you should sell it as wild goat meat an charge extra for it!
Better then soy fed corn fed beef.
i feed mine on tin cans and old tennis shoes.
Alex Opoulos so who drenches them If they are feral ?
Probably like feral hogs, they are healthier and less calories than chicken.
your understanding , how cholesterol works is horrible, as well painful.
Successful turn from pest to profit, bravo australian farmer, my inspiration
Camels, rabbits, and goats! All these invasive species introduced by settlers. Makes me think settlers were the ultimate invasive species in Australia.
Humans have changed their evirionment for their survival since the dawn of time.Brain washed greenies are the plague.
you forgot cats and pigs
Genius
Cats as well!
do you mean Australian? they take the island from native. their identity actually are invasive too 😅🤣
Free range organic and charge a premium price.
Maybe it taste and smell like eucalyptus oil.
Charging a premium price is why people don't buy it.
@@thatsawesome2060 not if you add enough curry.
@@thatsawesome2060 only koalas can digest eucalyptus.
In Morocco in the High Atlas mountains locals make one of the best dishes with goat meat in the Moroccan cuisine .
many thanks
Wow, the Aussies are very successful at eradication. I've seen another vid of them eradicating European carps from Tasmania, I think. Pretty impressive. Very ingenious methods too, for carp and goats.
It's only certain areas (above weirs/waterfalls and dams) where the carp can be filtered out apparently. It's still a problem in a lot of our rivers. Rabbits are coming back. Feral dogs and cats + foxes may be the worst Aust-wide problem, but the top end has it BAD with pigs and water buffalo. Then central Aust has a bad camel problem. Then there's cane toads, Indian Minors......................... Sorry, I gotta stop. I'm sad now.
Has anyone there tried kale, yes that leafy green that you see in the produce section of a supermarket. Apparently it's deadly for goats. A friend of mine lives next to a hobby farm that has goats. The farmer picked a box of produce waste from a supermarket. Mixed with the lettuce was some kale which she didn't see. She fed it to her goat when she got home, next
morning my friend found it dead in the middle of it's paddock.
Lori Maxan They can eat kale just fine. I think its only the rare case where they have a bad reaction to them.
That was just rare occasion, they do clean kale farms in my place with no problems.
Boer and woollies are grass eaters. We like brush goats and their favorite feed is mesquite. It has the same feed value (leaves) as clover. Raising it for the pods to fatten livestock is growing. But, pods need to be crushed to help digest the 36% protein beans.
This could never happen in Jamaica we love goat meat too much lol
Same for Ghana..
True 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Ocean Blue thats Jamaican favorite meat/ animal
Well you're welcome to them. I love goat too but most Aussies wouldn't eat it
@@christopherwhitney2711 why is that so? One lady mentioned the Hispanics in America and she's right, I've known many who will pay good money to pick and kill their own goat.
Send them to yemen..we need the meat....
I heard you love them roasted there.
That black dog is having the time of his life!
@blue dog no kelpies are a Scottish water horse which drowns people not a dog
@@theotheseaeagle unlike your imaginary Scottish water horse, these kelpies are real, they’re dogs, and bloody good herding dogs.
Australia also has feral hogs, camels, donkeys etc that can be encashed.
In addition the offal from these animals could also generate revenue if exported to countries in where there is demand for it
Ive said this for years. We could export all the feral meat to other countries and we still would'nt eradicate the feral problem. Roos & rabbits. Man we could feed the whole planet.
@@aussiefarmer8741 roos are native though, not introduced, the biggest problem is introduced species, if you think roos are the problem then you’re a certain kind of special that can’t be fixed
I'm glad people have taken to rearing them . I was thinking along that line and how l could lay my hands on them from so far away .
60-80 kgs lol
Some of those Ferals looked 115 +
"we don't use the F word"😂
I’ve got nothing against herding up feral goats for eating, but ones that have obvious Kashmir or Angora genes should be protected for use in wool herds
Goat meat is delicious, try to think of it as less fatty lamb.
Goat meat literally tastes gamey and wild. I’m not sure how such an ancient domesticate still tastes wild
When hunting these beasties, I found that only females less than knee high are worth eating as "lamb".
Do NOT even touch the big billies (rank).
The rest, treat as you would any other game species.
Either a long slow wet cook or a fast sautee/grill.
Nothing in between.
@@misenplace8442 we sell to some Africans that won't even look at ayoung (6 month) goat. They are used to and like an old animal. The last one we sold was 4 or 5 years old.
@@whoreofdragonstone1031 it doesn't taste much different than lamb when young. The older it gets the more likely to be strong. Goats prefer weed and brush before grass. They are browsers not grazers. That changes the flavor of the meat. Just like a corn or grain fed beef tastes slightly different from a grass fed. Our dairy goats find some weed each fall that makes the milk taste metallically. Can't drink it straight but fine to cook with.
@@fredbecker607 too rank for me, they can have it.
Love venison,emu,rabbit etc, just can't handle old goat
Nice. Australia has a bit of everything. Not just croc's. There is wild pigs, rabbits, horses, camels, goats, dears and more more more. Lots of wild meats
Goats , Donkeys,Buffaloes,Camels and Dogs Australia 🇦🇺 is a feral country
Don't forget the rats, the cats, the horses, the rabbits, and the hogs.
And don’t forget white people !!
Deer too
15 plus years ago when I worked on stations my station manager was getting $50 for a billy and $35 for a mature nanny , and another station I contract mustered on outside of leanora wa , melita , kookynie brought a heap of domesticated boer billy goats to breed with the ferals but the feral billys killed them
Probably should have kept the feral and domestic billies separate. Or did the feral nannies kill the domestic billies too?
They may have a commercial value, If you are not managing them and just harvesting them, they are most definitely feral, This is not a bad thing as there would be significant cost in eradication , It could be argued that this is the best of both worlds
meantime i am buying goat mean 7 dollars per pound. last month i spend 300 dollars canadian.
I live in the USA. This meat is "free range organic" -- much more expensive than farmed meat and people pay way more for it at expensive grocery stores like Whole Foods.
You guys should try making goat biriyani 😂 you will never export them ever.
Mutton Biriyani 🤤🤤🤤
Hmmm walking biryanis... yummy!
South Australia is missing the boat
With Peter Anderson's Holistic Management that land can be healed. The US is also buying AU's grassfed beef
Funny that some beef farms in several USA states are being asked to shut down recently in spite of people still needing food, all due to irrational behaviour from coops and whatnot freaking out over Columbo Cyrus.
I used to raise goats in mississippi. I miss it a lot and I might just look to starting a meat goat operation where I'm at now
The vast majority of Australian landscape is not suitable for farming sheep and cattle, but perfect for goat and camel.
Australians should realise they are no longer in Europe. If they switch from sheep and cattle to Goat and Camel they wont have problems such as drought and disease the way they have with other animals. The quality of the meat is good (perhaps better) and the international market is strong with less competition.
Nice.
At this point the aussie is not that smart, they need to learned something from somewhere despite arrogantly depends on sheep. Lately become smart after seeing the market.
Goat meat is delicious! (Tastes a lot like venison, and can be cooked like beef.)
1:51 umm.. it shows that the Launceston area in tasmaina is apparently overrun with feral goats? I didnt see one when i drove thru there today.....
So sheep were here since Federation, yet we have no feral sheep?
There is feral sheep but in much smaller numbers
Sheep are too dumb to survive on their own in the wild. Goats are slightly smarter and are capable of defending themselves from predators.
I spent 24 years in the export meat industry and was at the beginning of the export goat meat era and saw just how much demand there was for this product as we proceed thousands of goats to the U.S. and China.
After just watching a video on a problem with camels it's not hard to see that if 2 export dual species meat works were set up, 1 in W.A. the other in outback N.S.W there is definitely an opportunity to create jobs, control 2 ferrel species, and build a sustainable industry to benifit Australia.
Come on guys, it's not that hard to do.
0.:14 Did the dog just jump out of a motorcycle!?
What an absolute mad lad!
I'm American Indian and love it!
How about some African antelope, like the oryx, which would thrive in the desert outback? Their meat is said to be good eating, and low in fat. There are many endangered animals that would thrive in the Australian climate.
judas goat be like: why???? every one Ive been close too are dying whyyyy
In India 1 male Farrel goat which is around 70- 80 kg is worth 1667/- Australian dollar.
Years ago (1980) myself and 3 other soldiers went to the Flinders ranges to shoot goats, we found a farm that would allow us to shoot..., but only his Kangaroo's..., he had tags to cull 10,000 roo's from his property, but we weren't allowed to shoot the goats because the farmer was getting $25 a head for them live..., and that was back then.
I'm sure there is a demand for kangaroo meat somewhere too.
To be honest, there is nothing more organic than a feral livestock. Its one of the healthiest meat you can get
Im all for culling ferals. But lets not waste ANYTHING
Feral cats, feral deers, feral camels..aussies got em ol!😂
The whole world: we have shortage of food. Australia : hold my beaa mate.
There's no real food shortage in the world, just poor distribution because the system is based on profit, not need.
@@jajahgadis very true
One reason they are not ferrel in my country is becàuse right after first sight they would have been converted into BBQ, stake, curry, Soup etc in a matter of an hour
I go to Australia with an Earthworm in Boots.
AUSTRALIA: Swarming in feral Earthworms.
I love goats, wish I had some with horns that large.
In the USA, look into the kiko breed. They are a similar genetics to these feral goats.
Goats not only eat the grass, but also the roots, they are the gravedigger of the flora
Is there any relation to capturing all the feral goats versus letting them Be Wild as far as fires are concerned
@TheNatureLover it was an honest question no need to be a jerk
@TheNatureLover Being a jerk is a pretty good description of your comment. If you knew anything at all about the brush fires, you would understand that decades after decades of "environmentalist" (Nature-Lovers) policies that do not allow for controlled burning, leaves the ground littered with an unnaturally abundant amount of fuel. Feral goats would eat most of that fuel and have a definite, positive impact on the wildfire situation. Good question, Jake Husband. Keep them coming!
@@johnshilling2221 Smart, you can't have bush fires if there's no bush left.
@@johnshilling2221 they are finally catching up to that idea in some parts of the US.
@@johnshilling2221 that’s a very stupid idea, how bout we do what the bush has evolved to do and burn off regularly, that way the fuel load is kept down, the plants can rejuvenate and germinate and the land goes back to the way it should be
What a bless land , never think about food
We need to look at goats as a resource in tough times. Shooting them by city people is a huge waste of protein and income for property owners. We never let anybody shoot goats, we muster them up and they are utilised just like any other farming asset.
Leaving them out to rot contributes to the fly problem. Just watched a program that uses goats to eat blackberries that contribute to brush fires.
I felt pity for these lovely goats 😑😢
Yes.. GO VEGAN!
My fur babies love goat horns
They've got such a strong accent that I need the subtitles !
"Feral... I think you mean free range and humane!"
Patterson lived on the land adjacent to use in Wales, 50+ years ago…………GB. He invented the Buckrake, used to harvest grass for winter feeding for the animals…….any relation to yourself.
In the title male feral goats are not called bucks there called Billys and females are called nannys
Aren't the Australians feral in that land as well? 😁
YangarXII 💯👌🏿
@Daniel Sky blue 87 True that poisoning does the trick to take over.
@Daniel Sky blue 87 They were the best opportunists, I agree with that. Do you know what cayotes do, They piss and shit in the water so other animals get sick and then they get to fight and eat them when weak.
@Daniel Sky blue 87 I also agree with that Australia belongs to the Abbos.
Absolutely
The question isn’t are they feral, the question is are they still a problem? Feral pigs are seen the same way in the US. They’re a major product for commercial hunting. But are ecologically damaging and fill the niche of other native creatures like the black bear.
We have 32 million feral Pigs here as well. They are do a lot of damage.
I like in the USA and I never thought that maybe the goat in my biryani is from Australia!!!
Another invasive species
@@djharto4917 Any creation who doesn't entirely believe in the oneness of the creator is among the invasive species waiting to be cast in hell fire.
In the US, most goat meat is imported from Australia and New Zealand. Local producers can't breed enough to keep up with the market. We sell everything that we can raise and at times have reached out to other breeders to fill an order.
We have some farmers that live about 45mins away that allow their goat herd to free-range around the swampy areas. The area easily rejuvenates itself and the goats get to exhibit their natural tendency to wander.
I do find it curious that the goat pest grazing idea hasn't taken off here in Australia because it would be a good alternative to depending on herbicides that plants grow resistant to over time.
Some people have tried it. It would be a good solution to the African olive problem we(I) have.
Goat meat is delicious if you can seasoning it properly. Goat meat tomorrow for lunch stew style, adding Yuka, potato & green banana.
Waste of food killing the goats and the bodies lay there to go bad
Also, the carcasses become food for feral dogs, pigs and cats.
And I suppose New Zealand has it no less bad with introduced possums they kill stinking up the New Zealand forests.
@Censor Me they don't. That's another reason this system is shit.
And how did these goats get there?
Wow... living in South Australia must be a heaven for goat meat lovers...
I just love the ABC with all my heart.
Here in India goat meat cost 10US$ per kilo...
Where do you buy mutton for 700 rs a kilo?
Atleast they got some commercial use out of these things unlike the rabbits, foxes, and cane toads.
How bizarre that the woman suggested the smell of goat is off putting - when for people like us, from Asia, lamb is the most disgusting smelling meat imaginable
Hunting wild goats to save ecosystem is great, but I hope the goats meat is consumed and not wasted.
Lol these past days in just seeing alot of feral animals in Australia 😂
goats are the real GOAT
holy shit, the prices.
are they with gold flakes and caviar?
Feral goats,cats,bunny,carp,deere?Is there a non feral animal in Australia?
Don't forget the politicians
Why not have a truck carivan to process camels on location in the outback?? Camels goats wild cattle ect. The free product ; maybe gov sub would leave room for nice profit margins ??
Where do I get a permit to collect as many goats as I could handle?
Good job
Imagine when you're asked at a social function by a lady 'and what do you do' and answering 'I'm a goat judge'...
Is this Landline?
Only ABC program worth watching nowadays.
Hey these goat can control fire if manage properly.
Literally everything in australia:
It'S a FeRaL! kIlL iT!
i need to go to australia with my dogs
Don’t waste that goat meat. Feed the homeless.
Australia don't have a lot of homeless people so they don't need to use that resource in that way. Most goat meat is exported either live or frozen .
Is there any animal other than native is considered non feral in Australia?
I can understand the concern for plant life but do they not spread seed when they defecate.
Definitely nor enough to make up for the damage. Goats do A LOT of damage.
Not so much, they digest seeds better than cows.
Here in the us we make birria tacos and now being so demanded as quesabirria.
Good article.
Finally Australia is not wasting them by culling
I love Goats