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#1 Jan 04 2015 at 6:41 PM Rating: Good
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Got a cow butchered

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Around 34 T-bones and Porterhouses between 1 and 2 lbs each.
A couple dozen Sirloins (big ones, 2lbs+ each)
Many dozen Rib steaks, 12+ ounces each.

Still had a lot of roasts left over from last year, so we had most of the roasts ground. Ended up with 290 lbs of ground beef.

Pictures show just a small portion of it all.

We haven't been able to get a pig in the past few years. Usually we get both, but according to the butchers around here, something killed off a lot of pigs in the recent years and they've been hard to come by. And none of my relatives raise pigs anymore. This cow came from my aunt, who we did a lot of work for (reshingled her house and rewired her barn, etc).

In the end we save a lot of money. Get some really nice steaks for a fraction of the cost.

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#2 Jan 04 2015 at 7:49 PM Rating: Good
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How much did the cow cost?
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#3 Jan 04 2015 at 7:52 PM Rating: Excellent
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Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
How much did the cow cost?
Three beans.
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#4 Jan 04 2015 at 7:59 PM Rating: Good
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Grats on the haul. Where do you store that much meat?
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Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
How much did the cow cost?


50 dollars to get it killed. (Ya, that's a separate charge).
Somewhere around 200 to butcher it.
About 6 hours of work between the four of us to portion it all out and seal it up.
Probably about 100 dollars in supplies for my family to package it (vacuum sealed).
The cow itself was accepted as payment for work done.

We always accept them as payment from family members, I cannot say what the exact cost would have been. But last year before we got the cow in March, the butcher was selling at somewhere between 2 and 2.50 per lb (hanging weight). Steaks, Ground Beef, Roasts, everything (anything). And I think that was packaged and everything.

This cow was something like 630 lbs hanging.

We usually package it ourselves, that way we can portion it out as we please. But it does mean we have to do it only during the winter (or sometimes late fall) because we need to keep the boxes of meat outside in the cold.


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Grats on the haul. Where do you store that much meat?


I have a lot of freezers. A medium sized chest freezer in my basement, two large freezers at my parents and grandmother's place. Right now my chest freezer has 290 lbs of ground beef in it, and it's pretty much packed full at the moment. The steaks are in the larger freezers at the folks' place.

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Could you send some of the bones to an address in Boston?
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#8 Jan 04 2015 at 9:41 PM Rating: Good
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I already have several bone suppliers, Kavekkk.
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So you're saying I should subcontract my death threats further?

Well, if that's what you think is best.
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#10 Jan 05 2015 at 12:03 AM Rating: Decent
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Fifty bucks to have it killed? Bullets are cheap, just shoot it yourself.
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So you're saying I should subcontract my death threats further?

Well, if that's what you think is best.


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50 dollars to get it killed.

Worth it. Helped kill a hog once to save on that fee. ONCE. Hours and gallons of blood later I realized there's a learning curve there and that it was a skill I didn't particularly need to acquire.
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Conk the pig on the head, hang it from it's hind feet, slit it's throat and stand back.

It's probably a good thing that killing stuff is hard/messy/inconvenient.
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50 dollars to get it killed.

Worth it. Helped kill a hog once to save on that fee. ONCE. Hours and gallons of blood later I realized there's a learning curve there and that it was a skill I didn't particularly need to acquire.


Yeah, I had a similar experience as a kid. One of my parents' friends was keeping some boar and we somehow got dragged into the business of catching and slaughtering them. I'm about 90% sure they were being kept illegally, so at least there was a reason to DIY slaughter them.
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#15 Jan 05 2015 at 8:20 AM Rating: Good
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It's probably a good thing that killing stuff is hard/messy/inconvenient.
None of the above.
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Conk the pig on the head, hang it from it's hind feet, slit it's throat and stand back.

Oh is that the procedure? Not: Shoot it in the head with a handgun in an open field, watch as it screams and runs with blood fountaining from it's head for 20 minutes periodically charging into a gate you're standing behind, covering you in pig's blood while you consider trying to shoot it while it runs?

In retrospect you idea is, indeed, better. This was before the internet, though, so "let's just shoot it in the head" seemed plausible.
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You have enough meat to make one of these:

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This was before the internet, though, so "let's just shoot it in the head" seemed plausible.

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he Internet: Ruining future drinking stories through the spread of information.

It's weird how different my kid's lives will be. I'm sure there will be clever compensatory excuses, but not being able to call about being late or "not knowing what time it was" or whatever as excuses for teenage boning seem so inadequate today.
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Am I the only one that would put forth the time and effort to make a pig-sized guillotine?
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Probably.

If I was going to guillotine something I'd not do a pig. They don't have a neck.

I might put forth the effort for a giraffe beheading.
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I might put forth the effort for a giraffe beheading.

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Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
Am I the only one that would put forth the time and effort to make a pig-sized guillotine?


I'm not terribly confident in the capabilities of any guillotine we could construct for less than $50.
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Eh, a couple of 'cuffs, a length of sheet metal and a couple of heavy weights.
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Eh, a couple of 'cuffs, a length of sheet metal and a couple of heavy weights.


Well, I stand corrected. I'm sure that will work splendidly. Far better than a pistol to the head. I'm sure. Smiley: grin
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Eh, a couple of 'cuffs, a length of sheet metal and a couple of heavy weights.


Cuffs? What is this, a BDSM session? You just need a large enough box, couple of boards for the blade guide/head hole, the metal and weights as you mentioned, and some pig feed.
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