Was wondering if meat from a buck would have that buck smell or taste?

-- Frank Schwalbach (banjopicker-41@yahoo.com), June 28, 2001

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Response to taste of buck meat?

Deer buck or sheep buck or what? Deer buck can be quite a bit stronger but if you marinate it you can have a good piece of meat. As for sheep - I don't know but I have heard that their meat is very strong and hard to palate.

-- JoAnn in SD (jonehls@excite.com), June 28, 2001.

Goat buck? It is all in the butchering. My BIL is from the West Indies and no animals go to waste on my farm, not even a 9 year old buck. He doesn't buther them when they are in rut, but he also doesn't let any of the hair touch the meat. Older animals are ground or jerked (boiled forever before barbequing). BIL is a perfectionist and a clean freak, both things I prefer in my butcher :) Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh TX (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), June 28, 2001.

I usually raise a lambram to breed each year. I had been told by vets to castrate then feed out again before slaughter. I did not, I just use him and have him slaughtered at about 10 - 11 months. It has been great meat. We're doing it again. This year I will compare a ram of the same age as a ewelamb of the same age . But I am telling you our last years ram was delicious!

-- Debbie (bwolcott@cwis.net), June 29, 2001.

The person I bought my Boers from said that she got a lot less for her whether then someone who had the same age buck, sold at the same time at the same market. If you go to the auction, you can smell that most of them are intact so there has to be something to it.

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), June 29, 2001.

I know someone who sometimes butchers buck goats. She gives them a good bath first, then is very careful in the butchering. She says they taste fine.

-- Bonnie (stichart@plix.com), July 02, 2001.