Replies

Venison usually has very little fat(unless they live near south Georgia peanut fields where they become fat as hogs!) so the more it’s cooked the drier and tougher it becomes.
I usually just keep the backstraps for the grill and grind the rest up into burger. Most processors will add pork fat to venison burger around here.

I learned the air compressor skinning method from a local Mennonite butcher and used it on several of the wild hogs we killed around here. My dad and I made some of the best sausage I’ve ever eaten and fresh link sausage grilled over mesquite charcoal is heavenly!!!
Then one day I found a flat worm crawling out of one sow’s spine as I was field dressing it. Needless to say I haven’t eaten any wild pig since...

Well finding a worm would kind of spoil ones appitite, Yuk..My son has his own marinate he uses, like you say, venison has no fat and is kind of dry, but not his and his own receipe...it melts in your mouth. I found goat was rather dry also and if I had marinated overnight it might have been eatible, but sausage and salami was delicious..

Even our dog wouldn't eat the venison I cooked and thats no lie.....Up here in Michigan all the deer are corn fed from all the farmers fields, farmers and landscaper nurserys don't like them too well....I asked at the local nursury what the best way of keeping deer from eating all your landscaping, he said a 12 or 20 gage works well...

I found a tape worm about 6 inches long hanging out of the butt of one of our kids, yuk...had to find a wormer that killed tapeworms, different wormer would kill blood worms so we wormed every 3-4 months with a different wormer, 2 weeks later wormed again to get the newly hatched eggs. Taking care of animals is such fun....One of my bantum roosters got eye worms and 1/2 of his head ended up larger than the other half....that was a mercy killing...

With Angora goats your not after the meat but the mohair they shear twice a year...a heavy load of worms can cut down on the amount and condition of the mohair so we keeped up on worming and delousing....

One season our professional shearer got a little peeved at us, one of the goats was lousy with lice and he let us know we missed him at delousing time..he told us that the lice were species specific and they don't hang around people for long, they just die and fall off. (thank god as I had to hand sort some of the mohair for special customers that made doll wigs) I loved farming and miss it even after 20 years... GG