Red Boots Farm
Well-known member
Oh my gosh. That's horrible. Now I'm for sure willing to feed a couple of extra months if it means using our trusted butcher.Ours is a 14 day hang time as well. One time we had to use a different slaughter guy, it took him two shots to drop the steer, at 20 feet away. When we went to pick the meat up on a steer that was huge, he comes out with two boxes of meat for an entire steer. That he hand carried out, he knew when I looked at him that I knew he was trying to rip us off. He starts handing us packages of pepperoni from someone else's pile. It almost ended up in a fight right there. Turned out the old owner had passed away and these crooks where trying to scam people to fill out their storefront. They lasted less than two months and we're out of business. I'll wait several months if I have to for my regular guy.
Are there butchers who don't have a retail storefront? Would those be more trustworthy?