How to keep a goats head out of the fence. 

Excellent teaching Dad and she did well because of this , she did really well. Smart to have her talk and share how she felt through the whole job . God bless you both.

Well done Chad! What a valuable life lesson for McKenzie. She did amazing. That girl is the real deal. This was something few city kids could do. Well done McKenzie!

What an essentially valuable lesson! Great coaching, Chad! I’ll never forget the day I had my youngest daughter dispatch one of her own chickens after her dog got to it and didn’t kill it completely. She hated it, but she did it and I was proud of her not allowing her chicken to suffer. Surely RU-vid will demonetize or remove this video, but I think it is a very valuable lesson for all to know where their food really comes from.

Now it’s is a real reality show! Not sure how long this video will stay up but it was a good one. Tell McKinley Vigil and I are proud of her.

That was really important for her, and you did a perfect job dad! I'm currently teaching my 10 year old daughter the same practice/ lessons with meat chickens. And the whole pets.. livestock.. food circle. Well done, and Fu*;k the haters.

I’m super proud of her. She did amazing!!!

Best way to teach them how life is in the real world. Nothing sugar coated.

perfect shot there kiddo

Great job McKinley!! I am so very proud of you.

Awesome I grew up like this. Good to see parents teaching this .

the circle of life....

Yep...well done!

Congratulations proud of you

Nice work kiddo you did great.

Good video showing the facts of the rural lifestyle!

Goat is good eating. He never felt a thing.

Perfect! That was as good as it gets. VERY well done. Instant drop plus blood flowing freely from nostrils is exactly what we want to see with that style of dispatch. Congrats to you and your daughter! That was the most humane and ethical dispatch possible. (For reference, I've dispatched thousands of critters while homesteading, ranching, hunting and trapping over the last half century.)

Good job 💪💪

She is a strong kid!!!

Great job the both of you

Good work! Great patience!

Looks like Dad has a lesson on Goats for McKinley 😨. Excellent 💥 McKinley , a great life Skill to learn👏 Bless your Heart for being Strong 💖. JO JO IN VT 💕😄

I think that was an awesome video great right way to teach your daughter about homesteading I know you’re very proud of her good job

Great shot placement for the first time, I'm glad she went through with it. The first time is always the hardest, she has a good teacher.

Great job young lady.

great job, so proud of you...did it on the first shot!😊

Very good shot. I love it when tje sweet spot gets hit the first time. Pigs are the worst sometimes. Great job teaching your kids to be real. Im guessing you wont be monitized on this but we appreciate you being real.

Great shot ! Quick clean and done great job 😊

That's good you raise your child up to do the right thing to make a living

She did great! That’s a hard thing to do but she got through it with a good attitude. It’s better to be close to the source of your food and know where it comes from. I’m sure that home raised and home grown food is healthier than most store bought food also.

She didnt cry on 1st one.. Shes tuff.. Thats is part of life...

She did great! I'm so glad to see a father teaching his daughter this. My father never taught me multiple things I wish he had because I was a girl. Now I'm mid 30's learning what I should have learned decades ago.

Good Job both Dad and McKinley. I was impressed with the instruction as well as the completion. Im a small town resident so my livestock is limited to quail and rabbit. As a grown adult my first couple of dispatching were difficult. “It’s all business” is exactly how it needs to be viewed. Our animals deserve a good life, a good death, and a good recipe.

Good job.

Good job Chad, if more children experienced the realities of life, our world would be a much better place. Not everything is easy or pretty, but living and eating we all do. Like you said, people think everything come from the grocery store. Your kids are eating a lot better than many, and learning important life lessons. You are a fine example of a good parent.

What a good girl. Followed all the instructions and can now feed your family.

Good job kiddo. I know her nerves were wild. Great way to bring up children. We ve had rabbits, various poultry, and now pigs. I explained to my kids this animal will be different, but still THEIR PURPOSE IS FOOD.

Job well done...she has grown up so much...

Amazing job; thank you for showing the reality of what it’s really like. Appreciate the honesty and your respect for what the good Lord gave you….✌️🙏🏼🇺🇸

Well done. . Many years ago our herd buck (no horns) repeatedly stuck his head through the fence... One day ... the 4th time that same day... was enough. Hotshot zaps to his face until he pulled his own head out... HE NEVER stuck his head through a fence again, died of old age after many babies where born from him. Zaps not fun, but truthfully saved his life by doing it.

Give them love and a good life, if they're gonna be food, they should be loved. She's soooo much stronger than me. It was hard to watch, but I am proud of her, and you for teaching your children about "life".

She did great, when we do our own homekill I call them happy meals, because I know they have had a great life and and know where it has come from and they die just the same with a mouth full of hay. I'm from New Zealand (:

Very proud of your daughter. I don't think I could do it. Well done!

That was intense. I think you are teaching the ‘reality’ of the situation. It’s a part of raising livestock.

That's real life. You Chad and Shelley are raising good kids. People have become so disconnected with real life and where food comes from. Thumbs up.

So proud of her! That’s hard for sure! That’s crazy I’ve got to see his birth and death!

Nice shot. I usually just shoot them from the front. I've also just cut the throat while they are stuck. That's a little tougher.

EXCELLENT JOB!!!!!!! U have grown up so much in the last couple years. It can be a hard thing to do but it has to be done. Keep growing and learning, these experiences will always help u as u get older.👍

Hard to do first time she handled it good girl

She did a great job. Real life can be tough. Not all meat is produced in a store.

Tell McKinley Dave said hes super proud of the wonderful and capable young lady she is becoming. You and Shelby are doing a great job. Miss you guys brother. Might make it up later this summer. If i do ill bring the E-bike and fly fishing kit =D

My mom took our tire swing down and processed the goats there every year. She ground a lot up into burger...which we called billy burgers when we'd smell it cooking. She did really good!!

Most new people would be freaked out about that, none of them ever worked on a farm or lived on a farm or had anything to do with anyone from a farm. They have no clue where their food comes from. She did great and now time learn how to cut up the body. My niece killed her first year and her dad had her skin it and butcher it 😎

Also, that sum bish was YUMMERS! Don't forget to call me when hank goes down 🤤🥡🥡😉

(Greg Judy regenerative rancher) had zero tolerance for even cows that got worms and now he has a line of cows that never get worms and culling your animals can make your life easier, you have to be patient and maybe cull a few generations. I agree 100% with you. You improve the land why not improve your live-stock. Now you have a (North country) brand of goat, a better breed of goat than what’s at the auction yard and more valuable. Same logic as whoever came up with the Ohio pasture pigs it was most likely one major breeders work and culling.

Good job, McKinley. It's harder for females to switch over from the feelings to the "get the job done". It's a difference in the way men and women are wired. The feelings are okay, but you just work through them, rather than denying them. BTW, Chad, I'm surprised this video is still up. RU-vid is slacking, I guess. ;o) ETA: I just noticed the video title. Ha!

Good job. Absolutely will not trespass

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I was going to suggest cutting the horns off the goat, but looking it up suggest its a more serious thing than I initially thought.

I usually just use Duct tape and a stick across the horns, takes care of the head in the fence. He will look like a Dunce, but that's his problem.

12" broom handle and duct tape but eating it is a good idea too.

Great life lessons and nice clean kill. Now wait for PETA to knock on your door...."People Eating Tasty Animals" 😉🤠

If you want to keep the next goat that does this, duct tape a piece of pvc to their horns which will prevent them from getting their head/horns through the fence

You need better fencing is what I see.

I honestly think she would've rather used the shovel, but that's another video.

Is this an in tack goat? We only do weather's. The meat will taste different. Did you dispatch your pigs too? My daughter hunts but does not dispatch farm animals. Tell me what you think? Thank you 😊

Lol I thought you meant goathead

but the right fence to hold a goat ????

Learning experience needs to be done trouble maker goat

You're taking a huge risk showing this on your channel I hope you don't get in trouble by RU-vid

This is sick!

Use hog wire.

Wow, we just cut the wire above the horns and freed our goat...

At 12, my Dad made be put down MY suffering horse. He explained: my horse, my responsibility. If he shot MY horse, I would resent him. Part of Life is Death. Prepare yourself for your last day on Earth.

This was hard for me to watch (as I had to kill animals, in a bad torturous and slow way while they were screaming for a surer long time) during my trauma in childhood but are people really that stupid about where meat comes from? And how bad factory farming really is? How horrid of a life and even death animals have on factory farms? This is MILES better then even the best factory farm out there. People, google it if you are that ignorant about it. I se zero wrong with this (or with hunting). I eat meat, how can I be against any sort of animal killing (even if I can't do it myself given my past)? But, factory farms where animals live horrendous lives I am against. If more got their meat this way and less the factory farming way, many more animals would live much better lives.

Poor goat...🥲

Why not just sell the goat? Why kill it? Do you really need to eat goat that much? I have no problem killing to eat but not because the animal was a nuisance.

Will not watch your videos anymore

it all comes down to deciding what is important. If that goat that was putting its head through the fence, still had value on the homestead, there was a way to keep that goat AND keep its head out of the fence. By afixing a cross-piece of PVC or wood or rebar across the horns, such that the ends of tge cross piece is a few inches wider than the goat head and wider than the mesh holes in the fence , the goat cannot get its head through. IMG_0739.JPEG if you google search “keeping a goat from sticking its head through a fence”, there are plenty of pictured examples of how to accomplish this. It is a simple and effective fix. Short of keeping goats without horns, you will face this problem constantly over the years, if you have goats with horns. The solution i mention can save you valuable goats for the homestead (not feeling you need to put them down before butcher date was planned when you brought the animal to the homestead) , and save your fences.

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