crimsoncrazy
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By that I mean you finish, butcher and cut your own beef? My family still does. It's like a holiday for us. We butcher. Hang for 2 weeks then cut it up.
crimsoncrazy":2attsngv said:By that I mean you finish, butcher and cut your own beef? My family still does. It's like a holiday for us. We butcher. Hang for 2 weeks then cut it up.
Here the health department will not let the processor age them over 2 weeks. At least that is what they say. Could be the cooler space or them not wanting to have the power bill an additional 2 weeks.highgrit":2kozxlyt said:We butchered 54 deer here this year. But I feel like beef needs to age for 3 - 4 weeks myself. And till we build a large cooler it's not going to work. Sure stinks paying someone to do what you can do yourself.
Rafter S":39pjqy7g said:Not any more, but we did when I was a kid. Although we didn't feed them out. Dad would pick out a heifer that was ready to wean and we'd shoot her in the pasture with a 22 and get to work.
We raised and butchered hogs too. Scraped them instead of skinning, made sausage, blood sausage, rendered the lard, smoked the bacon, sausage, and ham, and had hog brains and scrambled eggs for breakfast the next day.
And then there was the chickens. I hated picking chickens.
And rabbits.
We didn't buy much meat.
I didn;t mind scalding and plucking chickens, I still do it with wild turkeys. It was/is the drawing them that turned/s my stomach. After that I can;t eat any kind of bird for a couple of daysCaustic Burno":3k0oezde said:Why did you have to remind me of those dam chicken's.
Scalding them almost turned me against chicken.
Talk about have a bunch of men mad get the water to hot and set the hair on that hog.
Caustic Burno":3yc20egh said:Talk about have a bunch of men mad get the water to hot and set the hair on that hog.
Rafter S":15ha3lbg said:Caustic Burno":15ha3lbg said:Talk about have a bunch of men mad get the water to hot and set the hair on that hog.
And the women could sure fuss when I'd pour the water too fast cleaning casings. Or turn the handle too fast stuffing sausage. I was sure glad when I got big enough to help the men instead of the women.
Caustic Burno":83e3kog4 said:Rafter S":83e3kog4 said:Caustic Burno":83e3kog4 said:Talk about have a bunch of men mad get the water to hot and set the hair on that hog.
And the women could sure fuss when I'd pour the water too fast cleaning casings. Or turn the handle too fast stuffing sausage. I was sure glad when I got big enough to help the men instead of the women.
I have no idea how many times I turned the crank on that old sausage grinder.
They lined the kid's up and we got to have fun turning the handle.
You had better like hog liver or eggs and brains that day or you had better just get a biscuit.
That was all there was going to be that day, might be some hot water cornbread.