Re: Buying beef off the farm

Posted by Texasmark1 on January 07, 2017 at 08:22:11 from (75.106.104.97):

In Reply to: Buying beef off the farm posted by Shaler on January 06, 2017 at 08:47:35:

Funny for the day#2.

When the family was growing up I tried everything to live a comfortable life with a 6 member family. Obviously food was a large expense and in particular meat (not a deer hunter). When I was a kid, my uncle raised rabbits for show and sale and I did a lot of butchering for him in the summer.

Fast forward. Co worker had yearling calves and bought one with the capability to dress it out on site. Shot the critter, drug it over to a tree, strung it up like I did rabbits and away I went, just like I did with rabbits.

Got the hide and head off and started on the carcase. Knife up at the groin where I started with the rabbits and went on down to the bottom of the rib cage. About that time the stomach (all 3 of them), which must have weighed at least 150# come rolling out over the ribs (which I am standing directly in front of) and as they do a rib bone fractures the sack/all 3 sacks................need I say more???????

But cleaning up that mess was just part of it. When I got it home, I found out that a storage (home style) freezer (was using 3) wasn't designed to cool down a hot 400# carcase on a hot August day. I got the job done finally, but it took a couple of bottles of Maalox.

Then came the production line where I lined up the family and everybody had a job. Had no saw so everything had to be tenderloined. Took it a quarter at a time. Finally got that job done. Surprised nothing spoiled and nobody had to go to the hospital with food poisioning.

Next time I took the live animal to the slaughter house and took my cut and wrapped meat home.....but that's another story....the trip from the farm to the slaughter house with a live, very active, yearling bull, in excellent health, full of vigor, in what used to be a closed in single axle U haul trailer that a neighbor used with his boy scout troop...you know the orange and white ones with the 45mph max sign on the back.....................

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