Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 | Meet the Ferals Ep 5 | ABC Australia

Feral goats are an introduced pest to Australia, but worth as much as lamb meat. They are also money-making saviours to many outback stations in tough times. 📺Watch the full series here: • Meet The Ferals | Land...
Ep 1: Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 • Covet, catch or cull: ...
Ep 2: Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 • Feral cats - Australia...
Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 • The complex conundrum ...
Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 • The devastating impact...
Ep 6: 160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 • 160 year battle agains...
Ep 7: Damage, death & disease: devastating effects of wild boars 🐗 • Damage, death & diseas...
Ep 8: Outback camels: culls and carcasses or milk and meat? 🐪 • Outback camels: culls ...
Ep 9: Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways 🐟 • Battling to eliminate ...
Meet the Ferals looks at the devastating impact feral animals have on Australia's environment and agriculture and how farmers control introduced pests like cats, goats, pigs, rabbits and wild dogs.
Produced and presented by reporter Prue Adams, this series focuses on a different feral animal each episode. The content has been gathered from the three decades Landline has been on air, with background information and support provided through the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions.
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[@locman6228]

With all the feral animals in Australia, they should have no person going hungry..

[@AP-ow5vu]

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.

[@donlofting4268]

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

[@ligerangry1933]

Probably they don't ... If they don't like 🐐s the can eat kangaroos 😂😅

[@cdizzle99z]

Just need to send some Mexican and Jamaican chefs and things will be well

[@simpleliving1012]

Almost any normal domestic animals in every other country haa become invasive in Australia😂

[@BoogieIRL]

I’m going on a binge here, but it really is beginning to seem like they have no natural animals.

[@ThePmloc]

Especially Human

[@emmanuelochieke1645]

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!

[@Colorado250]

Swears man!!!

[@paulsawczyc5019]

It's the excuse used to kill them.

[@misenplace8442]

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.

[@somethingsinlife5600]

We need to just turn Australia into the world's largest Free Range Farm!

[@mistergnat638]

It already is

[@MrBillFold]

Keep them out of the winery vineyards though. My only request. 🍷

[@Redkodiak1994]

😂

[@raylowry2505]

@@MrBillFold If they ate the grapes we wouldn't need to marinate them

[@waqarkhan25]

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

[@macnosmutano4849]

Camels, rabbits, and goats! All these invasive species introduced by settlers. Makes me think settlers were the ultimate invasive species in Australia.

[@allywilkeforsenate]

Humans have changed their evirionment for their survival since the dawn of time.Brain washed greenies are the plague.

[@kniknayme9865]

you forgot cats and pigs

[@anubis1243]

Genius

[@pwrplnt1975]

Cats as well!

[@pmfaqihsyafaat7752]

do you mean Australian? they take the island from native. their identity actually are invasive too 😅🤣

[@PauloSantos-rm1mt]

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...

[@PauloSouza-fw2ru]

Oi

[@lordnessa5893]

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?”)

[@melpeddle7243]

@@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.

[@juhaszsc]

that is an ibex, a different species to the domestic goat.

[@AbidAli-bv2gl]

I will take it from you. do not kill it .Send to USA, @10.50 per pound in US grocery store

[@brendanhoffmann8402]

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.

[@lamebubblesflysohigh]

god forbid someone released rhinos in Australia, it would crash the rhino horn market.... wait that actually sounds like a good idea

[@thejurassicman661]

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

[@EATONWILDGAMING]

@@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]

I say we release every endangered species in Australia and save them from extinction

[@EATONWILDGAMING]

@@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

[@yerman0564]

They could also help fill in for the extinct Diprotodon.

[@ditoseafox]

Waiting for feral chicken, feral cow, feral wheat, feral paddy, walnut, chickpeas, feral flower..

[@Saeed-ih5ql]

Feral chickens is definitely the next one lol

[@happydee6950]

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.

[@accaciagame1706]

I've seen feral mint in a creek. The whole creek had mint shrubs.

[@jamesbatts9015]

They do have feral bulls. Look it up.

[@jvalentine8376]

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 .

[@fijianz1]

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 🐐

[@sprintershepherd4359]

kangaroo is what we are meant to be farming and eating in Australia

[@jossi9828]

Native Australian : 👀

[@strayandrongo7461]

Goats do well with planned grazing in the scubby paddocks. They actually help regenerate the scrub into grasses with planned grazing.

[@raylowry2505]

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.

[@kentallard8852]

They can help clear out poisonous plants too.

[@dickphan]

Not feral.... market it as "free range" $$$$

[@willsmith1988]

cant get anymore free range then that

[@21mikeross]

Blimy! $100,000 for a truckload of herded wild goat, man I'm in the wrong job!!

[@21mikeross]

@@willsmith1988 Not just 'free range', 100% organic raised too !!

[@android12921]

100% organic and free range. I would eat it any day!

[@felixromano3091]

Wild caught

[@leeboy7139]

Free range organic and charge a premium price.

[@thatsawesome2060]

Maybe it taste and smell like eucalyptus oil.

[@user-zt4ry9hm9u]

Charging a premium price is why people don't buy it.

[@iuliua]

@@thatsawesome2060 not if you add enough curry.

[@accaciagame1706]

@@thatsawesome2060 only koalas can digest eucalyptus.

[@richardt.4224]

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.

[@waribangentertainment6009]

Successful turn from pest to profit, bravo australian farmer, my inspiration

[@mahmouddilshad6521]

"we don't use the F word"😂

[@youtubeuseral]

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!

[@Dubrocq]

Better then soy fed corn fed beef.

[@atomsmasher9411]

i feed mine on tin cans and old tennis shoes.

[@michelleg5371]

Alex Opoulos so who drenches them If they are feral ?

[@BoogieIRL]

Probably like feral hogs, they are healthier and less calories than chicken.

[@amreshyadav2758]

your understanding , how cholesterol works is horrible, as well painful.

[@mohamedaljabry2801]

Send them to yemen..we need the meat....

[@nunyabiznes33]

I heard you love them roasted there.

[@dowyane1876]

This could never happen in Jamaica we love goat meat too much lol

[@rogerdat1068]

Same for Ghana..

[@kevaughnramsay9846]

True 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dowyane1876]

@Ocean Blue thats Jamaican favorite meat/ animal

[@christopherwhitney2711]

Well you're welcome to them. I love goat too but most Aussies wouldn't eat it

[@danyram89]

@@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.

[@macseagle5968]

That black dog is having the time of his life!

[@theotheseaeagle]

@blue dog no kelpies are a Scottish water horse which drowns people not a dog

[@Smokeyr67]

@@theotheseaeagle unlike your imaginary Scottish water horse, these kelpies are real, they’re dogs, and bloody good herding dogs.

[@abdelhamidahlouch6149]

In Morocco in the High Atlas mountains locals make one of the best dishes with goat meat in the Moroccan cuisine . many thanks

[@riav7467]

You guys should try making goat biriyani 😂 you will never export them ever.

[@renjithdevassy9013]

Mutton Biriyani 🤤🤤🤤

[@l0remipsum991]

Hmmm walking biryanis... yummy!

[@jacobh9487]

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.

[@petethundabox5067]

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.

[@marschlosser4540]

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.

[@noeliouscornelious1947]

0.:14 Did the dog just jump out of a motorcycle!? What an absolute mad lad!

[@abdulmalikyakubu196]

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 .

[@BaMenace]

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.....

[@michaelpardo4709]

Feral cats, feral deers, feral camels..aussies got em ol!😂

[@fancentral4662]

Good article.

[@Yangar03]

Aren't the Australians feral in that land as well? 😁

[@fiess15]

YangarXII 💯👌🏿

[@Yangar03]

@Daniel Sky blue 87 True that poisoning does the trick to take over.

[@Yangar03]

@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.

[@carolmakin8075]

@Daniel Sky blue 87 I also agree with that Australia belongs to the Abbos.

[@jijiramento1196]

Absolutely

[@Alekosdw]

60-80 kgs lol Some of those Ferals looked 115 +

[@banks3388]

"Feral... I think you mean free range and humane!"

[@R-Lmaxan]

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.

[@simonphoenix3789]

Lori Maxan They can eat kale just fine. I think its only the rare case where they have a bad reaction to them.

[@mustolourien5823]

That was just rare occasion, they do clean kale farms in my place with no problems.

[@nasirmahmood6452]

Good job

[@jimbobaso2832]

judas goat be like: why???? every one Ive been close too are dying whyyyy

[@tweeboschlaan5115]

Goats , Donkeys,Buffaloes,Camels and Dogs Australia 🇦🇺 is a feral country

[@johnshilling2221]

Don't forget the rats, the cats, the horses, the rabbits, and the hogs.

[@jorgegarcia1635]

And don’t forget white people !!

[@Trollolling]

Deer too

[@ilikewasabe]

To be honest, there is nothing more organic than a feral livestock. Its one of the healthiest meat you can get

[@bigpumpkin22]

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

[@abdulsaboorraza6691]

The whole world: we have shortage of food. Australia : hold my beaa mate.

[@jajahgadis]

There's no real food shortage in the world, just poor distribution because the system is based on profit, not need.

[@abyss7524]

@@jajahgadis very true

[@ettubrutus82]

I go to Australia with an Earthworm in Boots. AUSTRALIA: Swarming in feral Earthworms.

[@theimprovementsguy8871]

Im all for culling ferals. But lets not waste ANYTHING

[@mclongkock6678]

Goat meat is delicious, try to think of it as less fatty lamb.

[@whoreofdragonstone1031]

Goat meat literally tastes gamey and wild. I’m not sure how such an ancient domesticate still tastes wild

[@misenplace8442]

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.

[@fredbecker607]

@@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.

[@fredbecker607]

@@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.

[@misenplace8442]

@@fredbecker607 too rank for me, they can have it. Love venison,emu,rabbit etc, just can't handle old goat

[@maganthawarah2238]

And how did these goats get there?

[@lashari3944]

I want to work and learn new methods can any one guide me how it will be possible

[@daviddenison2097]

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

[@bertlbarm4374]

Goats not only eat the grass, but also the roots, they are the gravedigger of the flora

[@michelledafinis3601]

South Australia is missing the boat

[@candesh4151]

meantime i am buying goat mean 7 dollars per pound. last month i spend 300 dollars canadian.

[@hennieorr3065]

Lol these past days in just seeing alot of feral animals in Australia 😂

[@adrianmurphy8927]

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

[@leonkozoolin6358]

Probably should have kept the feral and domestic billies separate. Or did the feral nannies kill the domestic billies too?

[@samfrancisco8095]

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.

[@A.Chp-Schweppes]

They've got such a strong accent that I need the subtitles !

[@robertovillafuerte1136]

Waste of food killing the goats and the bodies lay there to go bad

[@jajahgadis]

Also, the carcasses become food for feral dogs, pigs and cats.

[@moatguy4471]

And I suppose New Zealand has it no less bad with introduced possums they kill stinking up the New Zealand forests.

[@jajahgadis]

@Censor Me they don't. That's another reason this system is shit.

[@juans6639]

Cabrito..yum, yum.

[@moonrunrs]

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.

[@Al88633]

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

[@aussiefarmer8741]

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.

[@dantemadden1533]

@@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

[@downbntout]

With Peter Anderson's Holistic Management that land can be healed. The US is also buying AU's grassfed beef

[@KeikoMushi]

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.

[@TruckTaxiMoveIt]

Where do I get a permit to collect as many goats as I could handle?

[@jackobias89]

I felt pity for these lovely goats 😑😢

[@mimi-tx7mk]

Yes.. GO VEGAN!

[@vantatilfly]

does australia also have feral chickens?

[@alanaweaver8942]

Don’t waste that goat meat. Feed the homeless.

[@jvalentine8376]

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 .

[@AbdullahKhan-dd2ke]

In India 1 male Farrel goat which is around 70- 80 kg is worth 1667/- Australian dollar.

[@umaryusuf537]

I like in the USA and I never thought that maybe the goat in my biryani is from Australia!!!

[@djharto4917]

Another invasive species

[@omarinayat5748]

@@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.

[@fredbecker607]

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.

[@malikzulfiqar7491]

Is the voice in the background of Yalda Hakim ?

[@whateva12345]

Nope, benazir butto

[@malikzulfiqar7491]

@@whateva12345 Nice joke but nobody laughed.

[@garyvee6023]

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.

[@SI-ln6tc]

I'm sure there is a demand for kangaroo meat somewhere too.

[@drpk6514]

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.

[@SaleemRaza1]

Nice.

[@hasanidris3952]

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.

[@thebleathouse1135]

I love goats, wish I had some with horns that large.

[@fredbecker607]

In the USA, look into the kiko breed. They are a similar genetics to these feral goats.

[@cmbaz1140]

This wouldnt have happened if the tasmanian tiger was still roaming around in australia...

[@melulekidube2875]

i need to go to australia with my dogs

[@MrMerzi007]

What a bless land , never think about food

[@ix-Xafra]

Imagine when you're asked at a social function by a lady 'and what do you do' and answering 'I'm a goat judge'...

[@bensantos3882]

Atleast they got some commercial use out of these things unlike the rabbits, foxes, and cane toads.

[@Cricket-zp6wi]

Goat meat is delicious! (Tastes a lot like venison, and can be cooked like beef.)

[@donshilo2024]

Here in the us we make birria tacos and now being so demanded as quesabirria.

[@honestlynate7922]

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

[@ThePmloc]

Are there no Big Does?

[@CultureofBharatha]

Is there any animal other than native is considered non feral in Australia?

[@christinejackson3922]

My fur babies love goat horns

[@jefferyschirm4103]

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 ??

[@johnevans6474]

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.

[@ramsundar3232]

Hunting wild goats to save ecosystem is great, but I hope the goats meat is consumed and not wasted.

[@accessiblenow]

Closed captioning please please

[@immad9706]

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

[@repealsection230forbigtech4]

sick!

[@mjack]

who are you too decide realstic number & Why ?

[@calebchristensen900]

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.

[@Tadpoletofrogs]

We have 32 million feral Pigs here as well. They are do a lot of damage.

[@captainianmich1814]

How much would it cost to purchase feral goats ?

[@fredbecker607]

They mostly butcher and export the meat. If you are in the US, check around. There are goat breeders in almost every state.

[@viorelenache4750]

Are they halal and kosher ? I'll get three as in HT.

[@zerotoeverything4348]

holy shit, the prices. are they with gold flakes and caviar?

[@user-lh7jf6kt6g]

كيف السبيل الهجره الى استراليا

[@alifr4088]

Literally everything in australia: It'S a FeRaL! kIlL iT!

[@marschlosser4540]

I'm American Indian and love it!

[@jamesbradley3475]

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.

[@JMiskovsky]

It is time to implement final solution to goat question.

[@doctorkhan4378]

Of all the feral species in Australia, the most onvasive is but homo sapiens🤣

[@martingoodef811]

I can understand the concern for plant life but do they not spread seed when they defecate.

[@jajahgadis]

Definitely nor enough to make up for the damage. Goats do A LOT of damage.

[@pteechka1]

Not so much, they digest seeds better than cows.

[@hjromli4454]

Good

[@lilacDaisy111]

So sheep were here since Federation, yet we have no feral sheep?

[@thejack9178]

There is feral sheep but in much smaller numbers

[@Jose-xh5qb]

Sheep are too dumb to survive on their own in the wild. Goats are slightly smarter and are capable of defending themselves from predators.

[@chiya2006]

My goodness, we pay $ 9.00 per Lb . Its a delicious meat . Wish I have opportunity to visit Australia and consume enough goat meat 😄