Politicians....thats great!
Stubborn I'm sorry somehow I managed to miss this post
Ah...venison. Yes, we have that too. You can't get much more natural than that. Clean meat, low fat, healthy. Most generally we have 2-5 in the freezer depending how much time we can dedicate to hunting.
In regards to the fair. Do you have small children that are old enough to do the pig scramble? At least if they were able to get you the pig for free you would be ahead of the game. I didn't see it, but my husband said that the guy that picked our 4 out of the trailer of 200 pigs grabbed them by the hind legs and that was it. No fighting or struggling from them. He said it was pretty slick. I figure I'll keep that in the memory bank for next year and see if I can get my grand daughter to do the pig scramble for us!
I have never heard of a draft goat but sounds interesting. I understand about adding projects to the "to do" list. We have a habit of adding more then we take away!
Our hunting is a family effort. All the deer are hung together and we process them when they are ready. Everybody who cuts "gets a cut" so even if you didn't put one down you get an equal share of the meat processed that day. If your "the shooter" which means you put the most deer down that year you get the left over odds. For example if 5 people cut that day and we have 2 extra 1lbs bags of burger those 2 extra bags go to the shooter. Thats always been the rules from generations past and we find that its fair. Hunting season here is a big deal, we have a lot of farm land around us so lots of deer to put up in the freezer.
Im not familiar with the pig scramble. We don't have anything like that around here. I wish we did though. Id train your granddaughter now on how to grab them from the rear legs so that way when its her time its old hat for her. You've got the piglets to train on lol.
I'm fascinated by draft animals. I can watch the horse pull all day long. My wife always laughs because she knows she'll find me sitting next to a couple of farmers old enough to be my Grandfather and talking draft horses. Its really neat though we have a good group of draft horse fans who bring their teams up and they pull a large wagon around the fairgrounds to help people get around and show off what they can do. Ive seen teams of Percherons, Belgians, even Shires and Clydesdales up there ferrying folks around. I'd love to learn how to drive and have my own team. I think when I retire I just may have to get a really nice carriage or 2 rides and do weddings, etc.
So until then I stumbled onto people using goats to pack out Elk meat and antler sheds. Sure footed, strong, willing to work, and so that lead to draft goats. People use them to pull carts and there are plenty of pics of them being driven by kids in a small wagon. So I figure why not?
http://www.harnessgoats.co.uk/gallery.htm for a few pictures to give you an idea of what they can do. I figure we'll already have goats so why not add a draft? Or a miniature horse depending on the propery to we purchase next summer. If we set it up for horses I may get a mini, or I may do a draft goat. We'll see.
Are you doing any dairy animals Stubborn?
. And hunting is hunting and meat is meat. But I knew that you started with more than that. 
40 pounds of burger is still a lot of burger! YUM!!
