I stumbled onto a live SHEEP in a goat pen 2 days ago. I was going to buy goat meat but I decided on the whole sheep.
They weren’t going to sell me just a part of the sheep, they were selling it whole, arabs were their customers. Anyway, my son and I were excited to dig into sheep meat. We saw the slaughtering done right before us. The man stabbed the sheep 3x on the heart and bled the sheep till it died.
Then the man had a tub of boiling water and dipped the whole carcass to remove the hair / wool. Hmmm…. that doesn’t sit well with me, seems the skin is getting “cooked” or warmed. Then the carcass was burned with an lpg torch to remove the hair clean. Then it was cut up.
We are utilizing everything in this sheep. So the intestines will be made into soup. The skin will be cut up and dipped in vinegar. The bones and the head will be made into broth. Efficient use of the animal, Sally Fallon style. The rest of the family, the extended family can have some roasted lamb chops and the soup.
I and the kids had some raw meat for lunch. wonderful meat. has its own taste. I like it better than goat because it is fatter than the usual goat we get. Lots of fat. Really, like beef.
I tried the sheep’s liver, it didn’t sit right with my taste buds and gut instinct. For the past 2 days I’ve been gorging on wonderful raw beef liver so I’ve got immediate comparison.
Sheep meat is truly fat. I should get sheep as a staple food instead of goat.