Houston makes me laugh! Ours are 16 and 13. When they were little they’d shout a blood curdling scream “mom” from the house while I was at the barn feeding. I’d come running thinking someone was impaled! Turns out they would want to ask something that definitely could’ve waited!! They quickly learned to wait til mom gets back. BTW, love a full freezer!
Helpful hint from a HVAC Guy, don’t let your freezer stay that empty. It will run all the time trying to stay cold. Freeze water jugs in there to help keep it cold and it will save money on your light bill. Love your videos!
I love seeing freezer full of meat. Looks like all that meat was shrink wrapped. Should stay good for a while. You might hit 100k today. Early congrats.👍
It is very satisfying to fill a freezer. Our steer dressed out at about 440 lbs. Our processing fee was about $320. We had most of the oddball steaks and roasts like the 7 bone roast ground up. But I get all the bones back to make beef stock. Well worth it.
I liked your funny comment. Even might, spelled as mite, is still a nice slang, poetry, prose way of putting things.. lots of people use slang words... it adds spice.
wow dad calling your kid out for being rude while you're on camera way to go I am so impressed discipline those kids and raise good godly kids way to go Dad so proud of you
Had to laugh when you mentioned hamburger! My dad used these guys for so many years that he didn't have to make a list for them, until one year that he took a beef in for my sis and me. The owner shut down processing of our order, because' Mr B NEVER orders burger, and I'm not about to ruin his order!' . We waited an extra week for our order because dad was out of town!
Duch could make the same video with JESSIE and he wil get hammered with negitivy . Because He had us praying for Jessie and you caritoized crazy eyes so different. That was very smart on your part great job and love how organized everything is around you homestead.
Oh gee I used to go to the meat locker in town with my Aunt to pick up meat. They had a farm but never saw how things were done as I was raised as a city girl. I think what your doing is awesome. Thanks!
Very nice video! Title definitely grabbed my attention! Appreciated all of those details broken down. A person alone doing that job would have a lot of dead animal garbage (310 pounds) just to get to "hanging weight", then would still have bone & who knows how much more to try to figure out how to correctly dispose of... Wow! Just Wow!!! Makes a processor really worth their salt/wages, etc. I appreciate them a lot more now!!!
We had an Angus girl. She was just like crazy eyes. Her personal space was 100m away from you. Such a pain when all our other cows even our bull come up for a pat.
Caught up on the videos. Crazy Heifer dressed up pretty well. Glad to see that you & Crazy Heifer can meet in peace over the dinner table with a glass of wine & some Hines 57! 😉
I have to make 2 comments, 1- I love Houston's curls,it makes him so pretty. 2- I think I would be really weird if you saw me on your next video. Considering I live a long way from you and I don't think I am scheduled to do anything like that. ( I am a bit of a literal thinker so it weirds me out when all you tubers say that at the end of your videos.) Thanks for the show. Blessings to you and all you love.
My family started processing because local processors were dishonest. They kept some of the best cuts and replaced them with old poor cuts from other animals. After we started our own processing we started getting a lot more meat per cow.
Looks like you forgot some of the best parts of the Beef, no short ribs, where are the neck bones? Oh man can’t make good soup with out the knuckle bones! Maybe I am just old but those are important parts of a cut sheet! And God knows the Tripe have to have that too! Great video thou
Will Dwyer a friend of mine raises water buffalo and sheep. He does barf and has the healthiest looking Australian Shepard. He does partner should work with the local vet school at Uga. He will tell the students about it but the professors don’t wanna talk about it LOL
Wow, I just noticed that crazy heifer charging towards you. It's good she's gone and in the freezer. She definitely could have hurt you badly. I almost had a similar incident with Angus heifer. Her calf is totally different and is really calm & friendly but Mama, was a .............(I'll let you fill in the blank). Thanks for all the cost data. Enjoyed a full-watch and have a fine week.
It's a very large animal to process by yourself. Maybe some people don't realize how much it would take to process a whole cow. Well congratulations on all the meat!
Had me going on the thumb nail!! I was going "What"? All your meat sounds really good, enjoy!! Please let us know how it tasted, pretty good I bet!! You all have a great week ahead, almost to 100 thousand, I knew this channel was gonna grow!! Congrats!!
Phil/// YOUR RIGHT,HE DIDN'T ADD IN THE COST OF FEED.I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW THE ESTIMATED COST OF THE CALF ADDED IN IF HE WOULD HAVE PURCHASED IT!!!!! I DO AGREE THAT IT'S A LOT EASIER TO TAKE IT SOMEWHERE AND HAVE IT PROCESSED!!!!! .50 A POUND IS A GOOD PRICE FOR THE ACTUAL PROCESSING.I LIKE THE WAY IT WAS PACKAGED,VACU-SEALED.
@@ezrabrooks12 Agreed. 50 cents a pound is a good price for cutting and packaging, especially vacuum packaged. If Daniel would process the beef himself, he'd need at minimum a walk-in cooler and a meat bandsaw to do it right.
Me too! My brother butchered a 6 month old calf one year, it seemed pretty tough to me... It's name was Bubba.. Bubba, & his sister, Cassie were like overgrown puppies. You had to explain to visitors to never run from them, because just like puppies they would go & run with you, but were unable to stop as suddenly as you.. Meaning they would unintentionally run you over! They liked to be very close to you. (There was also a danger of being kicked if you jumped a fence in a corner of the fencing, leaving you trapped.) I remember the day of loading Cassie.. They put chains on her to try to pull her into a trailer, three men. They couldn't get her in & were struggling terribly. I went into the house & grabbed the last of the bread from a loaf. She followed me right on up & into the trailer except her back foot.. It had only taken me under 30 seconds to have her that far loaded into the trailer. They foolishly started pulling on the chains.. she pulled all of the way out.. If they had left her & I alone she would have followed me on into the trailer.. but now I was out of bread in the house. Sad.
Uh-Ohhh!!! She’s back better than EVER!!!! 🥩 When’s the RU-vid Family Cook Out? 😁😋🐐 Hey Seriously!! Thanks for sharing the costs!!! This was really helpful!!!! You’re right! You processed Crazy H at the right time! You made the BEST decision for everybody!!!
Thank you for breaking down the costs....I like the informative content in your videos....Beautiful family...... beautiful farm/ranch....It must feel so satisfying to have accomplished so much for your family.
I agree it is much easier to take your animal to a processor and have them deal with the whole thing I really enjoyed this videos very helpful me and my wife have been talking for a long time about taking a cow to the processor and having it processed you just shared a lot of light on the out cost of everything well I guess it's time to go process a cow thanks arms family Homestead for these videos keep them coming we really enjoyed your channel I am a new RU-vidr and just getting started and I learned a lot from watching your channel God bless you guys from South Carolina
Good explaination of costs.. and reasons for doing it your way. Of course others can do it differently.. but the point is to give info.. not to tell folks what they should do.. they can decide. Love the cutie child.. I bet mama sent him out to get you.
Great parenting with Huston. You have to start at that age to teach kids some manners and responsibilities. Some times they can take advantage of a parent.
My uncle gave us a heifer for helping him with hay last year. His neighors dogs had ran her through the fence and broke her leg. She couldnt jump in the trailer so I called the butcher shop and they gave me a number of a guy certified to do a farm kill then transport to them. If that sort of thing ever happens or you want to try and reduce the stress of transporting. That guy charged 50 dollars and he removed the head and internal organs but in Missouri things are generally cheaper.
We do our deer at home only because it's dead winter and can leave it hanging. We also grind it all into Hamburg venison sausage to make sure it's eaten every year as that way is our favorite. It is a real chore to work right hours travel another 3 hrs back n forth for $15 an hour. You are going to have to eat 2 deer per season. He also does our raised bed gardens solo and has to head to bed at 7:30pm in order to grab a shower. I have been wheelchair to bed, bed to wheelchair for the last two years and now waiting for a heart operation. Growing and also trying to eat as much grass fed is a ton of work even without the animals that you have. Thank you for wanting to for your family.
In Indiana "chicken fried steak" is "cubed steaks". And, ya'll don't have pork tenderloin like we do. Congrats on the amount of meat Crazy Eyes made. That was a good average.
Nice video here in Jamaica 🇯🇲 we would get a lot more, the head and foot is very nice when brown stew with broad beans. The skin is awesome brown stew or curry and the soup bones those make a bad beef 🥩 soup 🍜
Interesting. When i process my steers here in Poland I pay around $45 for the slaughterhouse, but i pick it up in quarters and then break down the carcass and wet-age the meat myself. I also keep the hide for curing, and I keep all of the internal organs as well to make various recipes. Most interesting is the bones - I have a meat table saw and I cut the bones into 4 inch long pieces and freeze them in bags of 3 to 5 pieces. We use them as soup stock, it's super healthy and makes all soups and stews far more nutritious. it's true that i have to invest around 7 hours of my time for breaking down the carcass but with the bones and the organs I end up with significantly more in the freezer than that - I need two huge chest freezers to store half of one steer - my brother takes the other half and fills up his as well.
I’m sure you have a backup generator or two in case of power failure. We have one for our home refrigerator and freezer and we live in south Texas. The weather these last few years has been so unpredictable and we’ve had a few power outages that lasted 12-14 hours during storms. I’d hate to see you lose all that beef 🥩
LOL! You had me fooled by the subject...I thought by Crazy Eyes being back that the crazy thing escaped the meat packaging place! 😄 That's a nice looking freezer full of good eatin'! She probably lost 100 pounds that day she was an escapee on the run! 😏 How much longer will you keep Big Mac? He still has some filling out to do I'd say.
I would do the same thing and let the processer do the work . It's a lot of work doing what's needed . Took my deer meat to them . Just didn't want to deal with the mess . I tried 1 year and that was enough . Around here lean ground beef ( 80 - 20 ) sells around $2.79 to $2.99 a pound when it's on special which happens quite a lot . Good steak is around $10.00 lb ( rib eye , T-bone ).
Glad crazy eyes is at home again right where she needs to be. 👍🐄 , . Lots of good eating ahead . Thanks for sharing hi to everyone look forward to next vlog u are all awesome.
I live in the city. So I call the processor they find a beef and last year price was 3.99 a pound. Not bad for the good cuts. Also get the bones for broth
I'm Glad I'm a butcher I have 3 Jersey bull Calfs bottle fed them I'm not going to keep over winter too hard to water them up here in Mass. Probably late November
So glad Crazy-eyes didn't kill you. You probably could have gotten at least some of the bones back for puppy treats. I don't know if it would adversely affect the price/lb. Anywho, now comes the best part of raising Crazy-eyes -- eating her! Take care, God bless, and bon appetit!!!
lol, your intro was so messed up. I honestly thought you brought the crazy cow back to the farm. but not packaged. My best to you and your family. A Montana fan.
