Butchering

[SamChevre]

I butchered last weekend--2 beeves (slaughtered professionally) and 2 pigs (slaughtered myself). Enough meat for 4 families for a year--about 1000 pounds of meat.

Who else butchers?

[Hugh Jass]

I don't, but I want you around when the crap hits the fan.

[The Nuge]

Occasionally on the golf course, and generally after a very nice drive, I will butcher my approach shot. Nothing pisses me off more.

Originally Posted by SamChevre

I butchered last weekend--2 beeves (slaughtered professionally) and 2 pigs (slaughtered myself). Enough meat for 4 families for a year--about 1000 pounds of meat.

Who else butchers?

I don't suppose you'd count boning and cutting up whole chickens.

Nope, never had the need or the opportunity to butcher an animal. What do you use on the large bones? Some sort of saw? And how much of the total weight would you estimate you throw out?

[Abused Student]

I have butchered a couple pigs before. Slaughtered professionally but we turned the corpse into sausage, pork chops, roasts, whatever. Had to give it to someone else to make the bacon and ham though.

[Abused Student]

Originally Posted by Lucy

I don't suppose you'd count boning and cutting up whole chickens.

Nope, never had the need or the opportunity to butcher an animal. What do you use on the large bones? Some sort of saw? And how much of the total weight would you estimate you throw out?

When I did it, we had a bunch of knives and a band saw.

[FormLetter]

So there is a bacon specialist in the butchery field?

[FormLetter]

Originally Posted by Lucy

I don't suppose you'd count boning and cutting up whole chickens.

Nope, never had the need or the opportunity to butcher an animal. What do you use on the large bones? Some sort of saw? And how much of the total weight would you estimate you throw out?

band saw probably

[Abused Student]

Originally Posted by FormLetter

So there is a bacon specialist in the butchery field?

Since it has to be cured/smoked/made into yummy goodness, it got sent to a place that cured it for us.

[ditkaworshipper]

I've only butchered deer before. It's a lot of fun, but you have to wash so much hair off.