beef. thinking of buying a cow for beef.

[daywane]

I have allways wanted to buy in BULK! Now I can. But now I find many options. We are a family of 3 at home. Also My oldest daughter pops in often with her 2 children.
so. I checked into buying a cow. A friend of mine raises them. Will not be ready till mid Dec. (needs to get a little older) we came up with the cost of $2.50 a pound. Estamated hanging weight is 400 to 600 lbs.
$1,000 to $1,500
this covers every thing I just pull up to butcher shop with pick up and bring home wrapped beef. or I have been looking at meat stores. check out this link. best bundles I have found so far, other markets keep tossing in beef livers and hot dogs.
http://www.boonesbutchershop.com/meatbundles.html

I will have to buy another freezer with any options I go with.
I bought  some meat from local stores yesterday. everything fit except the turkey. guess what is for dinner today.
Turkey today
rib eye steaks Sat.
Spiral ham Sun.
good to be  wonder what the pesants are doing this weekend 

[Blanka]

I prefer JITD.
When I consider we eat meat 2-3 times a week, it would take 3 years to finish a cow.
The organic-meat shop is in the park, so we combine it with a nice walk and it is even open on sundays (very rare in holland).

[JeepMonkey]

My dad's cousin is a (mostly crop) farmer.  He decided to get a few cows to raise for then eat.  I ended up with a sixth of a cow.  I don't recall now exactly how many pounds and the cost, but it was around $2/lb.

After getting beef directly from the farm and through the butcher, I can hardly even eat beef from a grociery store.  The farm beef is so much better tasting and there is much less crap (colors, preservatives, chemicals, etc) in it.

I might just have to pull out a few steaks this weekend and throw them on the grill.

[daywane]

I prefer JITD.
When I consider we eat meat 2-3 times a week, it would take 3 years to finish a cow.
The organic-meat shop is in the park, so we combine it with a nice walk and it is even open on sundays (very rare in holland).

The Farmer and co\worker pays me in meat when I work on his PC.
YUMM
It took him and his wife 18 months to fenish off a cow. He is a big boy like me.

my presant freezer is a chest on. maybe 3 feet tall by 3 feet wide.
I am thinking this is my deer/turkey freezer
Wish to go and buy a upright for beef

only problem I see is sitting on cash till Dec. In Dec  we have Property
TAX = $500
Xmas runs close to same = $500
lets go top LBS on beef = $1,500
I should talk to bank about a short term CD maybe.

[daywane]

that did cross my mind. no kidding.
My oldest daughter is having a hard time with $$$$
I think it would tickel her pink to stock her up a bit.
My garden ... I hope to double its size this year.
My winter time has been spent buying up clearance stuff for canning.

If all works out . It would be nice to walk out of the store and not spend $175.00 to $300.00 a week

[Vanguard]

My mom grew up on a farm.   When she was little, her dad raised a cow to eat once.   The family became attached to it and it acted more like a pet.   It would come when called, etc...  Her dad sent it to slaughter eventually.   Whenever they ate steaks from it, my mom on her sisters would cry through the whole meal.

That was the last cow they raised.  

[daywane]

that's why my family will not let me raise rabbit's.
I allways wanted to do that.

[AtomSmasher]

My mom grew up on a farm.   When she was little, her dad raised a cow to eat once.   The family became attached to it and it acted more like a pet.   It would come when called, etc...  Her dad sent it to slaughter eventually.   Whenever they ate steaks from it, my mom on her sisters would cry through the whole meal.

That was the last cow they raised.  

When I was little my family had two sheep named Lamb and Chop.  One day I came home from school and they were gone, but there was a lot of meat in the freezer.  I was actually too young to remember this event, but both of my older sisters do.

[JeepMonkey]

Mmmm, rabbit!

I have beef, deer, and fish in the freezer, but no rabbit.

I have heard a lot of stories about people getting too close to animals they planned on eating.  Not a good idea.

[saint]

Dooshitude removed from this thread. Back on track(?).

[danny_galaga]

My mom grew up on a farm.   When she was little, her dad raised a cow to eat once.   The family became attached to it and it acted more like a pet.   It would come when called, etc...  Her dad sent it to slaughter eventually.   Whenever they ate steaks from it, my mom on her sisters would cry through the whole meal.

That was the last cow they raised.  

 

as it happens, i just watched all six episodes of hhgttg yesterday. This comes to mind



 

[northerngames]

After getting beef directly from the farm and through the butcher, I can hardly even eat beef from a grociery store.  The farm beef is so much better tasting and there is much less crap (colors, preservatives, chemicals, etc) in it.

second that and hog's are the same.

[SavannahLion]

as it happens, i just watched all six episodes of hhgttg yesterday. This comes to mind



 

It's been yonkers since I've read the book, but isn't it supposed to be a cow, not a pig? Or was that an episode of Family Guy?

[saint]

Supposed to be a cow in the books, however I understand that the tv series, radio series, books, (and now the movie) all have variations like this.

[RobbyMac]

We split half a cow with my sister in law a few years back. (1/4 cow cost us around 300$ iirc)
We wound up with ALOT of hamburger & stew meat. In hindsight I would have preferred spending $300 on steaks.
But, it is ALOT of meat... lasted us about 6 months.

[ark_ader]

I have allways wanted to buy in BULK! Now I can. But now I find many options. We are a family of 3 at home. Also My oldest daughter pops in often with her 2 children.
so. I checked into buying a cow. A friend of mine raises them. Will not be ready till mid Dec. (needs to get a little older) we came up with the cost of $2.50 a pound. Estamated hanging weight is 400 to 600 lbs.
$1,000 to $1,500
this covers every thing I just pull up to butcher shop with pick up and bring home wrapped beef. or I have been looking at meat stores. check out this link. best bundles I have found so far, other markets keep tossing in beef livers and hot dogs.
http://www.boonesbutchershop.com/meatbundles.html

I will have to buy another freezer with any options I go with.
I bought  some meat from local stores yesterday. everything fit except the turkey. guess what is for dinner today.
Turkey today
rib eye steaks Sat.
Spiral ham Sun.
good to be  wonder what the pesants are doing this weekend 

I do not know how you can think of buying anything like that, especially since you have no current employment.   

[jamesjones626]

I have allways wanted to buy in BULK! Now I can. But now I find many options. We are a family of 3 at home. Also My oldest daughter pops in often with her 2 children.
so. I checked into buying a cow. A friend of mine raises them. Will not be ready till mid Dec. (needs to get a little older) we came up with the cost of $2.50 a pound. Estamated hanging weight is 400 to 600 lbs.
$1,000 to $1,500
this covers every thing I just pull up to butcher shop with pick up and bring home wrapped beef. or I have been looking at meat stores. check out this link. best bundles I have found so far, other markets keep tossing in beef livers and hot dogs.
http://www.boonesbutchershop.com/meatbundles.html

I will have to buy another freezer with any options I go with.
I bought  some meat from local stores yesterday. everything fit except the turkey. guess what is for dinner today.
Turkey today
rib eye steaks Sat.
Spiral ham Sun.
good to be  wonder what the pesants are doing this weekend 

  Your outta your mind paying over 1G for a slab of beef.  Find yourself some Mexican farmers (hope no one thinks I am being racist, me being Mexican myself.), those dudes will make you a good deal.  My dad gets cows for like 200 - 300$.  Sometimes people will give us up to 1/2 the beef if we keep them on our land and feed them (they buy the hay of course).

[JeepMonkey]

...they buy the hay of course. 

The good thing about having your cowhand farming 4000 acres of corn a year is that the cows are corn fed.  Mmmmm.

Same goes for shooting deer that live in corn and bean fields versus those that making a living on acorns and what not.

[daywane]

I have allways wanted to buy in BULK! Now I can. But now I find many options. We are a family of 3 at home. Also My oldest daughter pops in often with her 2 children.
so. I checked into buying a cow. A friend of mine raises them. Will not be ready till mid Dec. (needs to get a little older) we came up with the cost of $2.50 a pound. Estamated hanging weight is 400 to 600 lbs.
$1,000 to $1,500
this covers every thing I just pull up to butcher shop with pick up and bring home wrapped beef. or I have been looking at meat stores. check out this link. best bundles I have found so far, other markets keep tossing in beef livers and hot dogs.
http://www.boonesbutchershop.com/meatbundles.html

I will have to buy another freezer with any options I go with.
I bought  some meat from local stores yesterday. everything fit except the turkey. guess what is for dinner today.
Turkey today
rib eye steaks Sat.
Spiral ham Sun.
good to be  wonder what the pesants are doing this weekend 

I do not know how you can think of buying anything like that, especially since you have no current employment.   

were in the world did you get that idea? I work 58 to 60 hrs a week.

[ark_ader]

I have allways wanted to buy in BULK! Now I can. But now I find many options. We are a family of 3 at home. Also My oldest daughter pops in often with her 2 children.
so. I checked into buying a cow. A friend of mine raises them. Will not be ready till mid Dec. (needs to get a little older) we came up with the cost of $2.50 a pound. Estamated hanging weight is 400 to 600 lbs.
$1,000 to $1,500
this covers every thing I just pull up to butcher shop with pick up and bring home wrapped beef. or I have been looking at meat stores. check out this link. best bundles I have found so far, other markets keep tossing in beef livers and hot dogs.
http://www.boonesbutchershop.com/meatbundles.html

I will have to buy another freezer with any options I go with.
I bought  some meat from local stores yesterday. everything fit except the turkey. guess what is for dinner today.
Turkey today
rib eye steaks Sat.
Spiral ham Sun.
good to be  wonder what the pesants are doing this weekend 

I do not know how you can think of buying anything like that, especially since you have no current employment.   

were in the world did you get that idea? I work 58 to 60 hrs a week.

I figured since your last pro-management relations thread you would have gotten yourself fired by now. 

[jamesjones626]

hey daywane, didnt you have a thread recently were you were really pissed off at your job?  i think that gave some the impression that you may be jobless by now

[daywane]

Yep I am pissed at my job
but I am not stupid enough to quit just like that.

It is working out for me. I have at least 1 week end a month off every month till end of July

After my outburst  tentions have lightend up a little