Goats in WA - I know its not native

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How do people go with this, is anyone eating wild goat?

We roasted a goat recently at a moroccan themed party on a wood fired spit. I used all the usual Moroccan suspect spices in a home made dukkah mix rubbed onto the whole carcass with oil to make it stick. We packed the stomach cavity with dried apricots, prunes, raisins and other fruits and stictched the cavity closed.

Cooking time was about one and a half hours and the juices from the fruit were literally fizzing out of the chest while roasting and the meat was beautiful.

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if in WA where do you get wild goat from, also pig, boar and Rooo?

[eataust]

I can't help with specifics, but seek out specialty butchers and markets, and ask there - they might know where to get it but don't stock it until there's a known market.

[Bungarra]

Goats are classified feral in the Rangelands of WA

They were first brought out to the gold mining towns in the outback for milk as well as meat. Around the time of the great war the populations in these towns declined quite considerably.

The result is the mobs that roam the pastoral areas today.

I was told that 75% of the worlds populations main meat diet is goat.

They are mustered here and sold to the live export market, mainly Indonesia. Taiwan takes frozen as does the USA.

So in answer to your question, yes goat meat is eaten and does taste good

It is a lean meat with less fat than mutton.

At the moment their range is the Gascoyne

They are being pushed further south each year by dingos (Wild dogs) which are now coming down in numbers into the southern rangelands.

Indeed the last sheep were shipped out from North of Meekatharra last week. Dog attack bringing the stations numbers down from 6000 to 1200 in four years.

A leg of goat in a camp oven is hard to beat.

[helor]

The meat section at David Jones in the city sell "native" meat. I saw they had camel the other day...I'm sure they would be able to get goat if it was ordered. I think the Herdsman also sells this kind of stuff.

I don't mind goat but having lived in Broken Hill, I'm more inclined to check where its come from first! I went to a restaurant in Mildura once that claimed it served "Organically grown wild goat from Broken Hill". I'm sure the ones out on the station are ok...but knowing that there were lots of goats ranging around the lead mine kinda put me off the local goats haha.