He's Baccck! Complete Breakdown Of Raising Your Own Beef Cow (With Cost) 

Used a butcher most my life for my pigs. The way I fed them only cost my time and energy and I would sell one to the butcher for every one I had brought home. So I would send two pigs and get 1 back with a check for around $250

I am patiently waiting to be in a position to grow my own everything. I just got my first job after 17 years of not working and my husband just got a fantastic job that he finally is happy at and now we can start saving to get our own house because we are renting an apartment. I want cows, chicken and a couple of pigs to raise for butcher and for eggs, milk, etc. I love 💕 growing a garden already even though it’s just a small one but, it’s so satisfying knowing what’s in my veggies and fruits. Love ❤️ you all so much and thank you for sharing everything you do with us. Super inspirational ❣️🤗❣️

Thank you for your wonderful experience in getting the best in the world, your own beef processed and in your freezer. Nothing better.

When we got a side of beef, I thought we would never get through the mountain of ground beef. Then I bought a jerky gun (from Lehman's, I think) and we made 30# of ground beef jerky. I thought it would last for months but we ate through it in an embarrassingly short amount of time. We actually ran out of ground beef before we ate through the steaks!!

Ive been raising our own meat, chickens, pigs, cows for years and Its never cheaper, but you know what its been fed and how its been raised. So much better than store bought. That’s the idea of raising your own and always having it on hand no matter what happens in the world. Will be interested to see how long this really last you.

Y'all are awesome!! I hope you can some of your ground beef whether you do make ahead meals and can or just the meat, you are going to save room in your freezer. Especially if Wyatt needs freezer room for his broccoli! ☺️☺️☺️☺️. Love y'all and God bless!!

We loved canned beef chunks for quick work night meals. Stroganoff is done in the time it takes to cook the egg noodles. Shelf stable, no freezer required.

That ground beef could make alot of meatloaf, hamburgers, spaghetti, chili, vegetable beef soup and so much more. That's awesome.

I just love when I see or hear of others having homegrown meat!! We are getting ours next week. Nothing compares to the taste!! Yes sometimes it's more expensive but you just can't beat it! You know how it's raised. You know what it was fed. It's the best ever!!! Love u n your kiddos! I watch every video. God bless!

You might want to try canning your milk. Homestead Heart has a great how to video on it. She also has one on canning butter which in my case freed up some freezer space because I stock up when it goes on sale. Love you guys!

We are a family of 4 (3 that are meat eaters) we buy a 1/2 a cow every year from a local farmer. The other 1/2 a friend buys. We pay about the same amount for a 1/2 cow and we are thrilled with it…

Thank you for showing organic us best I'm not able to homestead i will however have an indoor greenhouse in livingroom in winter. Fresh veggies all year is my thing. Love you all ❤

I love your channel. I can’t afford to be a member but I watch all the ads so you get the money from them. I don’t skip over them.

Wisconsin here. We bought beef from a friend. It was $2 a lb to him, then cost .68 lb for processing, and .15 lb for grinding. Add in slaughter and disposal fee, and it was still less then $3 a pound. So much cheaper then from the store, and we know how it was raised.

Thank you for telling us about Moonlight!! I immediately google mapped it from my in laws house in KY and its less than 30 minutes from them and where we are looking for land!!! So excited!!

Happy Valentine's Day, y'all!💘 Love you guys So much!🤗😗 God bless you! 🙏💗

Every time I bring home a beef it means pressure canning is happening for a solid week. 😆 I have a running order with my uncle to get one every winter when I'm less busy, and we're in Iowa and if timed perfectly the outside operates as a freezer.

We live in E TN. We buy beef from a local farmer who charges 1.76./lb live weight. We paid $608.50 to have the last, Jan 2022, steer butchered. The final cost is usually $6 - $7 / lb. Some may say that is too much for burger, however that includes the steaks, organs, roasts, fat (tallow) and bones. Totally worth it. We know where our meat comes from and where / how / what they were raised / fed. y'all are doing an amazing job! Keep up the good work / teaching / inspiring.

We haven't raised any beef critters in about 6 years; I miss it so much. We do raise a pig each year; we just got our back yesterday, his hanging weight was 390 lbs. I am a huge believer in living off your land; we live in Maine, we hunt,raise,and grow our food .I wouldn't want it any other way.

Nothing like homegrown beef. We raise steers every year. Delicious!!

We are in southwest Missouri. We don’t raise our beef, but my family runs a beef farm. We typically buy a half every 1-2 years. We are a family of 4 but our kids are teenagers. Typically price for us is around $1.50lb live weight for the cow and around $200 for the butcher. We bought our last half in November. We ended up paying just at $4lb avg. While that’s not a huge savings on ground beef it is a huge savings on a filet or roast. And yes, nothing tastes like homegrown beef! I would encourage anyone to buy from a farmer! My family sells retail cuts for those who don’t have the space for a ton of meat. So worth it! And yes, while not always cheaper the biggest perk is knowing where your food comes from.

We live in the city so we can't raise our own but we buy from a local farmer that grows out a cow and lamb for us. We share them with another family and it's so much cheaper and it taste better.

Wow that is wonderful to have all that meat. I am so happy for you guys

Definitely got the itch ! Thankyou for the breakdown, definitely gives great motivation. Who Dey!!! Go Bengals !!

Well T-Bone....you enjoyed tearing down my fencing, now I’m going to enjoy feeding my family. 🤗😋

Where in the world are you going to put the chicken? You might as well go get Jen another freezer! You guys are so blessed.

Thanks for sharing your info. Have you thought of canning some of the ground beef? It would free up some freezer space and make meals faster. I have canned beef, chicken, salmon, and lots of vegetables. I feel much better than having everything in a freezer (or freezers) and like having food ready.

Cook the ground beef in a skillet, put it in pint jars, fill with distilled water and turn on the canner. That is what I do when all of our freezers are full and I need more room. Then I use it for pasta, casseroles and soups....y'all know how easy canning makes your busy lives. I promise it's totally worth it! We are nurses and have almost no time now. We get our beef from a local farm, 3-4 steer a year plus a hog or 2. I can the all of the stew meat and half of the burger meat almost immediately to make enough room and our busy lives easier. I do leave some meat back because my husband loves a good meatloaf;)

My step brother raises several beef every year and this last Dec we got a half for $2.75 a lb hanging weight. It tastes so much better than store bought. It is great watching how you secure you food for your family. Love living this life style.

We had the same problem when we got our beef back from the butcher, making enough room! Haha but like you said it's a good problem to have! ❤️

Growing your own is wonderful. I share a lot with my kid's family and it's just me so I don't do cows but I do goats, chickens, deer and pigs. My freezer stays full. I butcher my own and grow a lot of the feed and fodder myself so it's economical for me.

We normally pay a local guy in Barbourville to put down, gut,skin, and quarter our cows. He charges $100. Then we cut the beef up into all the cuts ourself. But having a butcher do it all might be our route this year. Manchester has a wonderful Butcher house too.-Kim

that was so funny seeing you trying to find room for the meat.... great video lovely family xx

It amazes me how much you have accomplished since you moved there. 😁❤️

So thrilled for y’all! Hard work always pays off!

T-Bone was so tender because of all the exercise y’all went through!🥰🤣😂😅

Love the comparison and detail!

Time to start canning some of that! I would so love to do a cow. But we love our homestead animals

Yes T-bone looks way better like this. I wish I had the space to do this. I am waiting for the temperature to rise a bit to get my chicken pen built so I can get my chickens. I'm so happy for you and your family getting all that beautiful meat. Oh and the Cookbook came and is so pretty.

The one pound hamburger will make 4 patties for hamburger. There is just me and my husband now and we raise our beef. When we had a family of four, one whole beef lasted us one year eating beef twice a week. Raising our own beef saved me close to $1500 a year. That was for just beef. Raising our own chicken saved me close to $625 a year. We get pork from my husbands uncle who raises hogs. Congratulations to you!!!!!!🎉 l am so proud for you!!!

Thank you for sharing 😀

What a great feeling to know you have that covered for a while! It could also come down to no meat in the store which I have seen a couple times recently, or too high a price to purchase. Quality is so much better and you know what went into it. Great video!

Thanks for information. I just picked up a 1/2 beef from local farm that I use and it cost me $1005 for beef $398. To process and I brought home 260lbs of meat so my price per lb was $5.39. I’m in Shenandoah Valley if VA. This was my second time buying a beef from a farmer. We use to do beef cattle but currently I just have goats and chickens and help support another farmer.

Very interesting analysis.

You should definitely cook and can up some taco meat for garden season. How nice to come in from a long day. Dump and heat with fresh garden veggies. Also can up some chili for lazy nights. And also some plan ground beef for spaghetti night! If you do 36 pounds, that’s 3 easy meals a month on the shelf! Great “rescue” meals for the I don’t want to cook tonight. Also you could cook some and freeze dry for long term storage to free up some freezer space. This would be great to toss on a pizza!

Over at living tradition homestead they run out of room in their freezer to so they sit up their roaster to make bone broth, their crockpot to melt their talon, on their stove melt their frozen butter to make ghee and to can it, same with the talon can it. Bones broth can it. More room in your freezer but don't forget your going to be doing chicken soon so I would just get another freezer. It's nice when God bless you for all your hard work.

Phenomenal stuff !!! I’m on it 👍

Also different butchers will do different cuts. There are the basics but if you want specific steaks make sure you ask for them, and things like bone on rib eye. The one I go to is the one my family has used longer than I've been alive, someone else bought it last year and their basic cuts changed a bit so that threw me. But at the same time she was trying new stuff like beef bacon. 😋

got your salves! Thanks you!

So awesome to have all that meat you grew yourself. Growing up on a small farm (28 acres) we raised beef, chickens and rabbits for meat. Our neighbors raised hogs. We traded meat with them every year so we had pork and they had some of all our meats. Was a great plan. We were a family of 5 and we had 2 large freezers plus the one on the fridge. Worked out to be the right amount of space.

You are SO right!! We've purchased half or quarter beef. Chunk of money up front but big savings. I would love to have half beef, pig plus chickens in 2 freezers. Day will come. You guys are doing amazing things for your family. Thanks so much for sharing.

Awesome job Y’all 👍

Nothing better than home grown including meats

You can save on freezer space (since you also have other animals that will be harvested) by canning some of the meat. When I have gotten good deals on meats I will buy lots and some of it I will can for longer term storage since if in freezer too long you can lose it to freezer burn. I have kept canned hamburger for almost 5 years. Other than ground beef you can take one of the tougher roasts or stew meat and cut it up into large chunks and can and sometimes when you need a quick meal you can open a jar and be ready to go.

So awesome. We have a butcher date of March 4th and we're trying to make room in the freezers. That's the nerve wracking part!

Omg I can’t get over your son!! So sweet and polite...and the broccoli!! Bahahah I love it! Broccoli is better then ice cream! Lol!

I’m blown away by your savings. ❤️❤️

Liver is so good for you Heart and lungs for the puppies

This was interesting to watch

Hey, Wyatt, Broccoli is my grandson's favorite veggie too.( he's 10 years old)

Yes, yummy food! Blessings, julie

Hey guys I thought I'd tell you where I live, I live in the desert in Arizona right now with 3 room mate temperley. I'm planning to move to Texas this fall thank the Lord. I'm from Minnesota. I'm use to growing my own food and I use to raise pigs. I'm going to raise goats and have a few horses to ride. Who can live in Texas and not own a horse, hahahaha. I can grow my own food again I cant wait.

We do usda when we can get in because there’s not enough butchers here. For our sheep the last time it was about $60-$70 each.

We used to say when the four legs go we can't wait for the White Packages to arrive🙌. Y'all get cryovack now but ours were always White Packages YumO 💥. ENJOY your T Bone! JO JO IN VT 💕😄☃

So happy for you . God bless

Hello, Happy for you. This summer I'm working on being more sustainable. I think your going to need another freezer for your meat chickens lol. Enjoy your home grown food. Take care.

I had a wether goat butchered a few weeks back and it cost $120. He was almost 2 years old, born and raised here. His live weight was 165lbs, hanging weight was 104lbs. I got back around 50 lbs of meat. It was hard to get him butchered but I knew what kind of life he had. I highly recommend goat meat to anyone.

We go through a lot of ground beef. Casseroles,soups,burgers and cowboy beans … Call the family and see if they have any room. We’ve had to do that before when our freezer died. Can’t stay in food go to waste.

Amazing

You could pressure can some of the burger, add seasonings to use for taco meat etc delicious!

We raise Charlois and Charlois/angus cross. When we are not selling the cow we actually kill on the farm and there is a special truck that hangs it up and take its to the butcher and its $75.00. We have to get rid of all the guts, legs, etc ourselves but we have a local family from Asia that comes and gets all the parts we don't want so we literally just bury the poop and intestines. Then to chop and package its about 200.00 When we Butcher for sale, its usually around 500.00 but most of our cows usually end up 700-1200 hanging weight depending on the age and how we finish it out. Our expenses are different because we grow our own hay. We contract fallow fields from retired farmers so we do several hundred acres of hay and only buy grain...but not buying hay you have equipment, equipment maintenance etc. but we can offset some of those costs by selling hay as well. We kill on average 1 per year but this year we will be doing at least 3. We have a herd of 11. We split the meat between 3 families (that which we don't sell)...my parents raise the cows. I do all the chicken and turkey since we have only a small homestead and they have a farm and we share. I do about 200 chickens per year and last year we did 40 turkeys. Welcome to the 5 freezer family! LOL To free up a room I highly recommend canning some ground beef. Adding taco seasoning makes great fast burritoes etc. Canning beef stew is awesome as well and it will cut down on the freezer space issue. Avg. 1lb of ground beef = 1 pint. Good job guys!

We pay $2.75 hanging weight (it was $2.50 but just went up) and $0.50 for processing with a $30 kill fee.

I very much want to grow out my own meat. I have more than enough space but, I still have to work outside of the home so I'm looking into local farmers. One of these days!🤞🏻

I’m so excited for you all! My first thought was, “Oh no! No more room in your freezers for anything else!” I’m guessing you have another freezer for veggies, etc, or you’re buying one. I’m thoroughly enjoying your channel.

We had a steer that weighed over 2000 pounds. and we got back a ton of meat. talk about trying to find freezer space lol

Congrats to y’all on T. BONE 🥩🥩

Time to put up some meat sauce, chili, and burger stew Jen, I'm gonna be going through the same thing in about 2 weeks, we have 4 freezer chests in the basement, we've slowly acquired because my girls and boys husband included are hunters, we raise meat chickens, and raise a couple pigs usually in the spring so freezer space is always needed. Love you guys you make me feel normal lolzzz. =)

Wwoooooo that's a lot of "TBONE" BLESS HIS HEART! Now to get another freezer since the chickens will be ready for processing before you know it. Very proud of you all!!😉

Now just be sure you have a back up generator or two! LOL

Just an idea for a lot of the meat.I would can it.I went to this one small store that has their own meat processing place there and they have meat sales every so often.so my friend and I go and buy a bunch of different things from there on their sale and bring it home and can a lot of it and then keep some out into the freezers.It will last a lot longer too if you can it instead of keeping it in your freezer.no waste that way either if power goes out for awhile due to any circumstance.

Wow, you raked in the beef! That is some good eating.

If you like Salisbury steaks you can make them out of hamburger. Basically make a meatloaf mix. Make into patties the same size as your wide mouth qt mason jars. Brown the patties. Put a thin slice of onion on the bottom then stack 4 Pattie’s in the qt jar. Add a little beef broth to the jar. Seal like usual and can for 90 min or what is correct for you area. Then when you want to eat them, use a baking spatula under each patty to ease out of the jar. Place in baking dish. Put broth in a pan to heat up and add you choice if thickener, and add mushroom and onions or your choice and pour over Pattie’s and bake till heated thur. Serve with rice or taters. And enjoy. I did the same thing with pork loin with sauerkraut and apples. Browned the meat first it was delicious. That makes for a quick meal and saves space in your freezer.

My husband and I butchered our 7 year old Charolais Bull. He was Tender as Butter.! Folks, Bulls are NOT Tough meat! that is an Old story. Please Give way to get another freezer, Your kids are growing and will their appetites. Very good video, Thank you for sharing!

Thankyou T-Bone

Looks like y'all need to can some 🍖 beef lol! It's a wonderful feeling knowing you have meat in the freezer that you know exactly what it was fed and how it was raised. My best to y'all!

Good job! Make some bone broth to pressure can while the weather is cooler. And pressure canning some of the hamburger will open up some freezer space.

Trying to talk my wife into getting some cattle for our beef. She can't get passed of them being pets lol. Maybe one day.

I started with freedom rangers this year sheep and a cow or 2 are next! Great video.

We got our first Angus Jersey mix 1/2 it is by far the best meat we have had...the Jersey in that mix makes it so good...the fat is yellow from the butter fat makes the meat so good

Thank you for showing us what T-Bone yielded, beef-wise. Many of us who don't own cattle for food have no clue how much meat it yields, let alone the cost. Thank you!

Went to Kroger and it was CLOSED! Detroit Michigan area due to low stock.

Just picked up a steer here in Louisiana last week, .98 lb to butcher, 80.00 kill, 80.00 to hang extra 2 weeks. all vacuum sealed

That is awesome

This is so awesome. So happy for you guys! How long can you store before Freezer Burn?

Did you as for the tallow? You could have rendered it for some natural soap or something. Good for you guys! I love learning from your journey.

Nice feeling having home-raised meat. Taste is sooo much better than store! Just a note, be sure to have a good generator in case power goes out/ can most of the meat. We lost over 200 pounds of beef thanks to a short power outage which blew our freezer, in the middle of summer and the alarm didn't go off.

We can't have large animals where we live. We have friends that raise cattle and go in with neighbors to purchase 🕜 . Last year's beef was about three dollars and twenty-five cents a pound packaged. Local grocery store prices from Kroger has ground beef at that time over $4 a pound. I would highly recommend this way if you can't raise your own. God bless your family you're going to need a bigger freezer.

Now that you are back canning and have your freeze dryer, you can cook double meals and put one away for busy days and can ground beef and beef tips for good convenience foods this summer.

Back when we still farmed, we had the luxury of having plenty of pasture to rotate (roughly 120 acres) Our beef was 100% grass fed until maybe 2 weeks before processing. , and then only part of the time, we didn't always finish them off with grain. So, winter hay and normal minerals that were always accessible were the only expense of raising them, and we grew the hay. Processing was nominal, probably around $100, and that included them coming to the farm and dispensing the animal on site. I miss those days for sure! When I was a kid, we raised a steer in a little pasture our neighbor had. I know we had to feed him, and Dad probably paid or bartered the pasture rent. We processed him on the kitchen table, as well as a hog we'd raised too. Last fall, we went in with our daughter on a half hog and it cost us $118 each.

What Little Feet Farm Homestead said!😄