what to feed a steer before butchering | Keeping A Family Cow
2012年9月15日 · If we had used the other butcher, we would have had to load the steer up in the trailer, take him 40 miles to the butcher and leave him in a concrete pen overnight. He would have been scared and frightened, which I didn't want to do to him anyway, but then some stranger would have come in and shot him, and I think the meat would have been ...
freezer size needed for butcher steer' | Keeping A Family Cow
2013年4月18日 · Tavix Fancy Farm: Bisco - Dutch Belted cow 2 jersey steer calves 5 goats Charlotte & Cissy, the Pot Belly pigs 4 AGH
what age does one butcher a dexter steer? | Keeping A Family Cow
2011年5月18日 · The "average" dexter steer will be beefed between 24 & 30 months. Much younger the meat will not obtain optimum marbling, much older you have diminishing return on your investment. This assumes mostly grass fed, no growth hormones etc....
good age to butcher holstein steer? | Keeping A Family Cow
2009年9月19日 · we have a steer that is 20 months old. he is a very big boy. seems to me he is all bone right now. thinking summer months to fatten him. my thought is he needs to be at least 2 years old first. papa says do it now. he is on free pasture with a lot of clover. it is free kill right now at the butcher. we are doing a 500 pound sow. so if I did him ...
How many pounds of corn a day to finish a steer?
2007年5月28日 · My last steer would have eaten a boat load I think, he was really a growing. Yes, it needs to be cracked, as whole will go right through them. The Long Acre: Home to a motley crew of milking and beef cattle, a couple yard cops (dogs), too …
when should I butcher steer? | Keeping A Family Cow
2024年10月17日 · I have a Jersey steer (born Feb 2011). He weighed 605 in January and 855 on 4/28. I am thinking that I will probably butcher him this November so that I don't have to overwinter him again.
Butchering a 600lb steer | Keeping A Family Cow - ProBoards
2010年7月13日 · Our Jersey steer, 16 months old, milk fed 6 months (weaned to save my cow's poor teats!) grained for the last month (but we had a drought in the fall that probably slowed growth a bit) weighed 590lbs live. Hanging weight was 296lbs and we got 188 lbs of meat - including soup bones and 80lbs of ground.
Butchering 18mth bull- will the meat be any good?
2010年3月22日 · I always butcher our dexter bulls and the best meat we ever had was from a 5 year old bull. The only tough one I ever had was a cryptorchid steer who went insane and we had to shoot him to keep us safe, but otherwise everything is delicious.
Bull beef vs steer beef | Keeping A Family Cow - ProBoards
2013年9月8日 · I usually wean around 7 or 8 months. If I keep a bull calf I worry about him pasture breeding a half sister. Then I do a 30 day weaning process, I have to keep the bull calves separate. Then got a butcher beef we wait until they're a year and half old. Gotta keep them separate, where a steer I don't have to worry near as much and need fewer pens.
Butchering videos: Beef processing/slaughtering | Keeping A
2010年12月20日 · We are preparing to home butcher a steer for the first time. We bought the book on butchering that was written by a vet, but needed a little more. We ordered the DVDs : Beef processing and beef slaughtering. The website was www.askthemeatman.com We finally got around to watching the videos on Sunday afternoon. The videos were excellent.