Were we are, we are lucky enough to have a butcher come right to the local farms in our area to process the animals on site. He’s been well trusted for years.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Nice my friend. Thanks for watching!

@childofgod3675

Жыл бұрын

That's so awesome! I'm also blessed. My father was a butcher and as long as he us living (he's 82!) he still comes every butcher day to assist; at first he butchered and taught us by explaining with examples. Now, he sits and watches, there if we need help or answering the questions we're asking. It is such a tremendous blessing to still have him around and to be able to gain from the knowledge he shares.

@StephenJelinek

Жыл бұрын

If I was a young entrepreneur setting up a mobile butchering trailer would be worth considering. I saw a story on Wyoming PBS. A butcher up fitted a semi trailer into a butcher shop. Went out to a ranch, shot a buffalo, and processed it on site. A service like this I think would fill a calendar up.

@StephenJelinek

Жыл бұрын

@@childofgod3675 My father was a butcher as well. He died in 2010. When I process chickens I can almost hear his voice.

@archieburson4301

Жыл бұрын

@@childofgod3675 every time one of our senior citizens passes there is a wealth of knowledge that goes to the Grave with them. But the Generations over the last five to seven decades as taken more with them to the Grave. Those Generations knew how to survive.......

Amen Billy! I spend a lot of time wondering what scares our Politicians the most and it always seems to be the same answer: A nation of citizens who are so self reliant that they need no Government at all. Life Goals.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree my friend. Thanks for watching!

@jenbear8652

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@rickwilliams967

Жыл бұрын

Most people won't have the capability or stomach for this. Trust me, I do this for a living. He's feeding you some lines my guy.

@koicaine1230

Жыл бұрын

@@rickwilliams967 I definitely don't have the stomach for it but my Boyfriend does so we should be ok. We don't have animals yet, we need fence, shelters etc., but if SHTF today, he can provide the meat. As long as I don't kill the garden, we will have veggies and some fruit. We are trying to make a food forest but it's really hard because we have sand, not soil.

@rickwilliams967

Жыл бұрын

@@koicaine1230 what I'm saying is this dude is giving some bad info. If he's saying that's how a butcher works AND he's a butcher, it means he's probably that bad. And 60% of the weight is very good considering you have a lot of bone waste. If you go to a halfway decent butcher, you will absolutely get what you pay for. Once again, I think it's an amazing skill to learn yourself, but I guarantee your husband won't get much more than 60% of the weight out. It's very time consuming too, especially if you're new to the skill. Not saying he can't do it, but you should really weigh labor vs. processing fees. It'll take at least twice as long until he gets the skills. My point is that this is not an option for most people. You guys are probably exceptions. Quick to learn, but very tedious to get efficient. I am super happy to see people trying it, but just be realistic you know? And supporting a local butcher helps strengthen local economy. It's kind of a balance thing really.

We had a steer butchered a couple of years ago. We kept hearing that the butcher we used was stealing meat. Last year we sent our steer to a different butcher shop. We split it with another family member and still had more meat than the previous year, from similar sized steers. We are never using the butcher from 2 years ago again.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Wow sorry that happened my friend! Glad you found someone new!

I used to work part-time for a deer processor, who was a former grocery store meat-cutter. I only hung, skinned, and gutted the deer, then moved them into the cooler. I watched him work carcasses, and listened to him talk about yield weights. I wouldn't say that he was dishonest about it, but I would say that he was wasteful. I watched an awful lot of good meat, still attached to bones, go into the garbage. When I asked him about it, his response was that meat wasn't "worth the time and effort" to de-bone. I could've gone behind him and worked over just the bones from about a half-dozen deer after he'd finished, and would have had enough ground venison to last my family a year!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

You make some great points there, my friend!

I have to say my 3 son's are the most honest mechanic around our town. Geez they even will tell you what's wrong with it and how to fix it yourself or will do it for you and won't ever charge you an arm or leg. Blessed I am!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Now that’s what I’m talking about!

@greatdanerescuemom1

Жыл бұрын

my hubby has been a mechanic for the last 42 yrs and he answers to a heavenly father , so he is more honest then i can tell you.

@jhoxihum3230

Жыл бұрын

Well, I have to say...every mother's donkey is her racing horse. That is why mother's are never trusted as an alibi in court cases.

I bought beef from a guy who took in a cow and specifically asked for the hangar steak. He had never heard of it, but he asked for it and the butcher was like "how do you know about that?" Guess what I was given last week lol

@doubletee9000

Жыл бұрын

This is because the hanger is in the organ cavity and often gets destroyed when splitting a carcass. Most places, large or small, would never bother to harvest this as it would take an extra set of hands or a special effort. It's super tiny, and a lot of people don't like their taste, so it just goes to grind or is lost in the disposal of the organs. It's not like you found his secret that he was eating at home. He just made the extra effort to get you something you wanted

We take the hanging weight, receive the butchered result, and ALL scraps and bones; 100%. We turn the other bits into scrapple and the kids go bonkers over it; zero waste. Thanks for sharing.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Love to hear it my friend. Thank you so much!

@JesusIsRealToMe

Жыл бұрын

What about the skin? Do y'all get to keep the skin?

We have large feral hogs all over our land and can harvest them year round. Enhancing our butchering skills is equivalent to free pork for life! Thank you and blessings to your hardworking family!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it my friend. Thanks for watching!

@rockjockchick

Жыл бұрын

I know in the southern states they are getting out of control and people are encouraged to kill them year round. They are breaking into and tearing up people’s houses etc.

@daleval2182

Жыл бұрын

How does it compare to farm raised pork, as for texture, colour,flavour

@terrahillfarm

Жыл бұрын

@@daleval2182 As long as they’re in the 75-150 pound range, they taste much better than store bought pork. They’re leaner so no surplus of bacon but they eat mostly acorns, roots and forbs so 100% organic pork!

@daleval2182

Жыл бұрын

@@terrahillfarm excellent, if they come to my land I'll have extra meat. Thank you , good info

My butcher is amazing! I got half a cow for $2,100 and walked away with 486lbs of beef cut the way I wanted some ground the rest vacuum packed. It worked out to be under $4.50 a lb. Edit: I also got 25lb of bones and 45lb of talo.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Nice my friend!

@graciesavage2

Жыл бұрын

I'm guessing it was over 2000lbs live weight.

@SgtRudySmithbRet

Жыл бұрын

@@graciesavage2 I think full slaughter weight was just over 1900lb

@hirotakasugi4891

Жыл бұрын

what was the live weight of the cow and the hot carcass weight? a lot of people forget that bones, weight, and hides also have weight as well as moisture loss reduces the overall end weight of the meat you end up with.

@oscarb9139

Жыл бұрын

@@hirotakasugi4891 plan on about 45% of live weight for beef.

Bravo Billy👏👏👏 Very well said, EVERYTHING you said. Sorry you were taken advantage of and hopefully those days are over for you. Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge and your passion(s). And thanks to Michelle and Billy for their share of the work behind the scenes. 🙌🏽 Getting excited for springtime gardening. 🌱🌱🌱

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it my friend. Thanks so much for watching!

Brought a ram lamb to a local butcher, and they told me I could only get chops, or rack of lamb, but not both from my lamb. Also, when we dropped off they had no lamb in the case, but on pickup day, they suddenly had lamb chops, and shoulder steaks. I couldn't prove anything, but come on.....

@tabp8448

Жыл бұрын

Wow

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Wow I’m sorry to hear that my friend!

@rockjockchick

Жыл бұрын

Omg. Bastards

That's why I encouraged my boyfriend to process the deer at home like how my dad did. I remember even being a little kid being so excited when dad brought home a deer cause it was a family effort, I loved helping learning how to gut, skin and butcher a deer with my dad. Anyway I showed him how to do it at home, we kept all the meat ourselves. I kept the skin the scrap and keep for my own use. I showed him how to cut and all that. I remember how excited I was to show my boys how as well. My absolute favorite thing from butchering cow, pig, deer, is making sausages and cold smoking them. Yeah cleaning the intestine is a pain in the ass, but worth it.

What a great skill to have. That's too bad that you can't trust someone to do the right thing and take pride in providing a service to their community. Take care Billy.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

I agree. Thanks for watching!

We’re going to be getting some pigs this spring. We plan to raise them, and butcher them ourselves thanks to encouragement from you, and Brian. Watching his live on butchering his own really helped squash any fears I had about it. We’ve done deer before, so I don’t know why I was hesitant. I’m excited now!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Right on!

Meyers hatchery in Polk, Ohio is having a sale on pullets that couldn't get fly out of Columbus Ohio today. Anyone that can get to Polk, Ohio on Wednesday can get them at $2 a pc. It's a mixture of all pullets. I think I will be getting some even though I'm about 3hrs away. Grabbing a bunch to sale as started pullets.

We used the same butcher for 2 different beefs. I have learned you need to be very clear about what you want. I told him I want all the fat and bones back. He cut off all of the fat from every piece of meat. I was SO bummed when I opened up our brisket for Christmas dinner. He told me they couldn’t per USDA (I would have been able to get my “excess” bone). Not going to him again. Another tip I would add for those of us that don’t have the space to raise cattle (we purchase locally) is to know the USDA “rules” for yourself. Also, study up on the cuts and tell your butcher you want the “throw away meat”.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Even if you tell them, everything, you still get robbed most of the time.

@dennislock3415

Жыл бұрын

👍

@mmpatriot2170

Жыл бұрын

@@happydogg312 I was really fortunate to meet up with an old farm boy on my first successful elk hunt. He help me to get that first elk, showed me how to bone it out in the field, then told me how to hang it, and a couple weeks later came to my home and showed me how to process it. The whole process was really interesting and I’m so grateful to Marvin Ropp to this day.

We have a butcher in Buchanan, GA that I have used for years. Been doing it for 50yrs I think. He is good and an honest man. Had another processor steal a bunch of meat from me 2 years ago. I still don't get everything I took to them. I have found that if you are not specific in your list then you don't get it. I always put, I want all bones, organs, and anything for dog food. I have a 12x20 building I am turning into a processing shed/ cooler. So I can hang my pigs and rest chickens. Another project to get done though. Add it to the list. Glad we have an honest butcher near me though.

@tabp8448

Жыл бұрын

The LIST!! Lol, seems there's ALWAYS another project to add to the list.🙃

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Glad you do too. Thanks for watching my friend!

That’s so sad!! We have a 3rd generation family run butcher that we use in SE Georgia. One day, we hopefully can do our own. Many Blessings!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot my friend. Blessing to you!

Outstanding video! Getting only 35% of the hanging weight is outrageous, I'm surprised it didn't come to courts or the other way that men handle thieves. Everything but the squeal from the hogs and just like it, everything but the crow or cackle from the birds. I respect their life, which sustains my family, by giving them a healthy and comfortable time, a death as quick and painless as possible and by wasting nothing. Even if the intestines and contents or dirtied bits can only be used by burying a couple feet and planting on top, that nutrition is recycled, not sent to some landfill.

@rockjockchick

Жыл бұрын

Right?!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

I’m right there with you, Matt!

The price you pay in a CoolBot is well worth the meat you with store due to purchasing it. I know a fella who does it with his deer processing cool at home. Just the largest A/C window unit and a CoolBot hooked to it. Sucka gets down to 34 degrees and keep the meat perfect!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Nice my friend. Thanks for watching!

Thinking you and the Bearded Butchers need to connect and do a collab. So much information to be shared between you guys that could be brought to us viewers.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

I would love to meet those guys one of these days!

@mmpatriot2170

Жыл бұрын

That’s the other meat cutting channel I watch! 👍

This video further confirms why I butchered my hog this weekend. It was in the 20's and my buckets of water froze as I worked into the dark. I skinned it laying on the ground. It hasn't left the property. Things are cold here right now, so I hung the pig inside the box trailer and will cut it mid-month. Your meat looks so much better than my hack job and obviously I am not a great butcher. Even if some of the chops end in the grind it is still a better price per pound when I don't pay a thousand dollars to the butcher.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot my friend. Keep at it!

Thank you so much!!!! We need to be told the truth. . .the truth shall make you free!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Elizabeth!

We make bone stock with our instant pot. It's like 1000x better than the junk broth from the store. And much more filling for soups.

my family has been butchering hogs and Beef with the same neighbors for as long as i can remember I'm 54 now and still the same families get together. nothing like making scrapple and cracklings.

I have a locker that doesn't steal meat. It's a one in a million. My friend directed me to them. They are honest. I took my bones, organ meat, lard , and packaged meat home and weighed it. I added the weights up and it totaled the hanging weight. My hog weighed 540 pounds live, 465 hanging weight. They have been in business for 21 years. The business is ran by the wife and her crew. Her husband raises cattle and an expensive breed of horses. He stays out of the locker business. It's all on her to run it. My friend told me to not worry about them stealing any meat. He guaranteed that I would get all my meat back and not someone else's meat, and I did. Best locker ever. I will never go anywhere else.

@rockjockchick

Жыл бұрын

Where is this?

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you found a good one my friend!

I worked for a game processor for about six months; one of the reasons we had a very loyal group of hunters (some from out of state) was because we ensured that the meat they received was from the animal they killed, and they got it all - including making sausages, snack sticks, etc. if requested. One of the complaints about other processors was that they'd take in your animal, weigh it, estimate the processed weight, and give you the equivalent meat from an animal already processed.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you pointed that out. In fact, I wish I would’ve said that very thing in this video.

@genesotdorus413

Жыл бұрын

That is illegal to do in Pennsylvania.

I have that pig in my freezer. Thanks to the whole family for the blessing.

Thanks Billy. Bought a book on butchering to go through while I save for the course.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

That’s what I’m talking about, my friend!

Another great video! I'm a butchers son with ZERO butcher experience. Tragic right. It's ok, my best friend worked for my dad and has butcher skills so it's not a total loss. Thanks for the video.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Of course my friend. Thanks for watching!

My prime rib roast didn’t make it home last summer! I was mad when I realized it New Years! (Our traditional meal)!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Oh no my friend. I’m sorry to hear that!

Thanks for all your tips!!! Great tip from my husband (former butcher and worked in sales for TN Pride and Jimmy Dean sausage companies) … we found huge pork loins on sale at Costco for 0.99 a pound. He ground them up added some seasoning…. Best tasting, least expensive ground sausage ever. We will never by a roll of sausage from the store again. Easier to save a dollar than to make a dollar. Love your channel❤

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

That is awesome Tricia! Thank you so much for the kind words also!

Amen! We are setting up to be ready or our steer next spring and are butchering our first pig this Saturday. You and your family have been a blessing to our journey. Keep up the great work!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Love to hear it Robert! Thanks so much!

So true!, I wish I was younger and healthier to be able to do things like that but I am not, I will not get any younger but I will get healthier with God's help and do what I can. God bless you and your family, really appreciate your videos my friend! Hugs to you all Billy!🤗💞

@SuperJill1111

Жыл бұрын

This aging stuff is for the birds. So much we want to do but can't. It's like, what happened? So this is what is like to get older...

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video my friend. Thanks so much!

Tye more I learn about homesteading the more I realize I’m throwing good stuff away. Don’t forget to make bone broth!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

You got it Shantel!

“The hardest things to find is an honest mechanic and butcher” Few min later “ I know because I’m a butcher”. 😂Well, I thought I found one never mind. Lol keep up the great info.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot my friend.

Did you ask to get all cuts? Most people don't want cuts your missing. But, fully agree its best to butcher your self. Most places you take your deer to will give you someone else deer. Deer that sit out in the heat.

Thanks so much for the shout-out!! We can't wait to have you back in SC.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Of course my friend!

I've subscribed to a lot of these types of channels. I happy yours was suggested because of it. Looking forward to looking through your content and learning more.

I had a steer butchered and they ground the whole thing into hamburger! I ended up with 300 ish pounds of hamburger that I have almost no use for! I was so mad. This was a pasture raised grass feed beef into hamburger when I wanted steaks and stew meat. I wanted the bones and the organ meat also. I got nothing. I left a honest review of the butcher and made sure to post the information on my Facebook account tagging the company.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that my friend.

@Mindy56743

Жыл бұрын

@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I did my best to make sure others knew what happened. I don’t know why they did it and they told me the owner ordered it, they told the owner that I did it. Unfortunately for them the owner is my best friend and cousin.

@froglaps40

Жыл бұрын

I had the same thing happen with a deer a couple years ago.. will never happen again.

Last year I got a quarter a cow. The other three people did not want the organ meat so I took that. I also got the tongue and half the tallow which was 20 pounds of tallow. I also got a small pig. Took the feet and neck bones. So much meat on the neck bones. I asked for all the lard. I was asked are you sure it’s going to be a lot of fat. When I picked up the pig I noticed they sell fat for rendering it was $3 a pound. I rendered the tallow and lard. In jars in my pantry. Get all that you pay for! Blessings all around

Oh yea you know soooo much about butchering, I promise most butcher shops will give you back what you ask for and what’s left is either trash or hamburger

You have to specifically ask for anything not on their cut sheet. My favorite cut on a cow, besides the steaks, is the beef shank. it is so flavorful and tender, and the bones make awesome bone broth.

@rusticfox4283

Жыл бұрын

you shouldn't have to ask for whats yours.

@ruth9396

Жыл бұрын

@@rusticfox4283 Most butchers have a standard cut sheet that they use, so yes you do have to specify what you want.

@doubletee9000

Жыл бұрын

@rusticfox4283 The meat off the cow is yours, sir... but you do, in fact, have to specifically ask for things to be customized the way you want it. This guy makes it sound like the butcher took home your osso bucco if you didn't get it, but ifnit wasn't on the cut sheet, it went into your ground beef.... not his plate.

@landonpackard8935

Жыл бұрын

​@@doubletee9000exactly, or that's how it should be. And alot of people want 90% or extra lean burger and if it's a nice fat grain fed steer, they don't realize the weight lost in trimming extra fat.But on the otherhand, there are also some people that don't know how or are too lazy to bone out real good too.

Good stuff there Billy! The wife an I were just saying, while watching this, we are gonna have to sign up for one of your butcher classes. We can go visit one of our best friends out that way afterwards. 🙂 Thanks for all the great info!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot my friend!

Good to see ya back! Love the shirt... it's missing an item; Ready, Set, and ACTION! EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW HOW TO DO THESE SIMPLE TASK.

Just processed two hogs over 450# each last weekend. I kept everything I possibly can. Animals get what we don't. Soon my steer will hang from my tree also.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Very cool my friend. Thanks for sharing.

Oh my goodness. I am grateful that my husband was a butcher when he was in HS and a year after. When he gets a dear he tends to the butchering. Sadly he has not gone hunting for some years. I miss venison.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Love to hear it my friend. Thanks for watching!

This was an awesome video you are on point with how much you can get doing it yourself most small scale homesteads don’t even have a scale and have no idea what they are going to get back or if it’s correct when they read the hanging weight

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

I’m right there with you, my friend!

Just found your channel. I really appreciate your direct, honest approach. I'm working towards possessing my own animal's. I have often wondered about what I get back from someone else possessing our meat. I am now convinced I need to do this myself. Thank you.

I was ordering beef before it was processed. I'm me Mexican so I wanted the cow tongue, cheek, tripas etc. The person said they weren't able to get those...from their own animal...

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know what this world is becoming…

Holy crap Billy! That was just plain highway robbery there. Bones = bone broth/beef stock. Beef fat = tallow. Not to mention the organs that could have been turned into animal food. You could even go a step further and get the hide back for leather.

Wow Billy, you ate soooo right !! I bought a hog from the butcher shop. It took about 2 months to get it and I was VERY disappointed in the little bit of meat I got. I did ask for the fat & they forgot it so had to call them and go back and get it.we butchered our own 4H buddy pigs years ago and I thought we got a lot more meat. Now after listening to you I can guess why. Thanks so much for all your info !! PS. Just marked it on March To order more comfrey from yall !! Thanks again ! God bless !!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found the video helpful. Thanks so much for your support!

@johndyer9232

Жыл бұрын

This video reminds me of a butcher shop in our area. Location will remain anonymous to protect the guilty. 😉A fellow I work with, he’s about 6’3 or 6’4, said he harvested an elk in Colorado. He brought the quarters home the backstraps were each longer than he was tall. He only got back 4 small packets of backstrap that were about 2 inches thick each. He asked them if they enjoyed the elk bbq and never went back. That was the same year I payed almost $100 for a doe to get processed. After that I learned how to do it myself.

We processed our own Kunekune Pig this year. We don't have a tractor yet so we used hubby's Motor Puller/Cherry Picker and a gambrel to hang the pig up lol. It actually worked great!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Whatever works my friend. Thanks for watching!

Thank you for this video, I'm now a subscriber and a customer 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your support my friend.

Thank you for the reminder! There are just so many skills in life that are lost on us. Thank you for sharing.

One point that is important is you need to let the butcher know you want the organs before they kill the animal. On kill day, things that aren't the main carcass are discarded. During the butcher, excess fat and bones are discarded. The offal where I work is picked up by a company that makes animal feed. Most people don't want osso bucco, they want burger. If you don't specifically request a cut, how is a butcher to know you want it. Also, request to view the operation. How do they label the animal to guarantee you get what you brought? How clean is it? What is their process for butchering and packing, Etc? Not everyone will be able to learn to do it, but knowing what to expect is a good first step.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot a my friend.

A 350lbs steer is small and most would consider that EXTREMELY SMALL. Enough so it would be considered VEAL. Cows sell by what most call 4 weight 5 weight 6 weight 7 weight, and those mean 400-500-600-700 pounds. Most folks don't take cows to market till they are 10 Weight or 1K pounds plus.

This was a very enlightening video! Thank you Billy for sharing!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!

Wow...Billy, this is SO FREAKIN AWESOME. We THANK the good LORD for you and your family🙏🙏🙏

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it Mandie. Thanks for watching!

Thanks Billy for getting the truth out there. You are 100% correct.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, my friend

Billy, Thank you You are serving your community. Excellent knowledge to share.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Of course my friend. Thank you so much!

Hello, for the first time. I glimpsed Been on a video and I said to myself, “What did I miss?” I love that family. But you were doing your own video. I was confused for a second, to tell you the truth. So, I subscribed, to your channel. I’m in the process of, owner financed, purchasing a .61 piece of property in north west NC. Purchase will be complete 2027. I’m collecting knowledge, in the meantime. Coming to you from Beverly Massachusetts, thanks for insight. I think your family will be on the top of the loved list, also. I learn so much from the Hollar Himestead.

Lack of enough land keeps me from raising livestock but I do appreciate my honest butcher. Your videos are interesting and informative. Thanks.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the vote of confidence, Debbie!

Great information as always! I’m presently Apartment-Steading. You are a fountain of knowledge and passion. Starting Herbs and some micro greens.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Phillip!

Each butcher is different. But they'll give you the various part's if you ask. I told my husband that we need to get thing's set to process our own stuff, cure it, etc. Our mobile butcher is retiring (he's almost 80) & we didn't have a good result using a USDA inspected butcher.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

The best way around all of this is to become our own butcher.

this is huge! I am subscribing!

Good job, good job. Very interesting. I will be watching a lot more of your videos. Great work - thanks...

Great video as always Billy!!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Tj!

There are a few things wrong here. First is you should get a checklist from the butcher on what you want and how. They might charge a little extra for lots of small cuts versus roasts but you can absolutely get the organs and bones if you'd like. Second is no WAY a butcher is charging a grand for a steer for owner's use only. The only time it goes that high is for USDA inspection for resale meats. Unless there is a state law where you're at that is gouging you hard this seems like a miscommunication.

This is SO disturbing! Thank you for bringing it to our attention!!

I do the same thing man! We do our own pigs, cows and birds. I made my dog a mix of chicken meat, broth, duck eggs and rice. She got really highbrow over it. hahah

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure your dog loves that!

You have to specifically ask for them to keep in everything like soup bones, fat for making tallow and organ meats. But I'm pretty sure they took hf the brisket off.

Thank you for this. I immediately liked and subscribed.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

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Awesome, thank you!

I've been butchering deer, chickens, rabbits and waterfowl since I was a kid. Made it easy to start butchering our own meat when my wife and I started our homestead. I have a fridge out in the shop with a hook in the top of it. Take out the shelves and hang my deer, goat, sheep, carcass in there to dry age when we butcher. Yeah it takes a bit of jury rigging to make it fit properly but it works

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Very cool my friend!

That is precisely why we started processing our own deer. I now process my own chickens, and this spring I am raising a couple pigs ( with a neighbor) for the first time, and we hope to be able to process them ourselves.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

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We need to get everybody on board my friend!

I'm glad we have three local honest butchers around my area.

im also a butcher for over 25yrs... the bone weight and gristle and connective tissue is removed when pre-paring cuts .... if you buy a hind quarted or fore - quater and ask the butcher to pre-pare it at the same time you can ask him to keep all your trim and bones... also depemding where you live will depend on how the carcass is pre-pared ... if you are of the black community they eat pratically all there meat on the bone where as white people in the uk tend to have there meat pre-pared to a different standard... as a butchers we cater for all communities.... 👍

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Lol, let’s see, is that the hanging hot weight of the full carcass at 360lbs? Then you have to hang it for 2 weeks minimum, which loses weight. After that, you have to decide if you want the bones or not. I saw no bones in that freezer. It is impossible to get 80% of the hanging weight from slaughter day. The slaughter house charged the butcher the hanging hot weight, not the finished hanging weight. If they charged on the finished hanging weight, they charge more per pound. Hanging hot weight does NOT include offals. So at half of the carcass weight would be 180 lbs. with the bones you’ll get 60-70% max yield. Without bones you’ll get 50% yield. And yes, I’m a trained butcher and these numbers are what I’ve seen over thousands of sides of beef cut.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

That was a hanging weight for one side

We recently picked up a 1/2 of a cow from the butcher. I felt we were shafted. I asked for the bones and fat. They didn’t give me shit for bones. Dogs deserve treats to!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

I agree my friend!

That's a dang shame to have a dishonest butcher. We're lucky enough to have an Amish butcher shop and they're great to deal with. A couple of years ago we butchered our own beef with some Amish friends and it was a lot of work, but a great experience.

@rusticfox4283

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The Amish are some of the friendliest and most honest people I have seen. (as long as your respect them and their way of life)

@Hatfield_Country

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@@rusticfox4283 yes they sure are! We have some amazing Amish friends and neighbors.

Man great video and words, thank you for the info!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked the video my friend. Thanks for watching.

I love this knowledge, keep it coming! I am going to the basics in life, learning to make bread from whole wheat berries, preserving food canning, eating nutrient dense food, growing my food, sharping my knives all to be self sufficient and not depend on culture to make it in life.

Thanks Billy, I’ve learned so much from your channel. Thank you!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it. Thanks for watching!

"I don't want to beat that dead horse..." Nahhh, go in!!!! lol I'm here for it!!!!!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support my friend.

Excellent channel! I love it!

Thank you for a honest knowledgable video that has the potential to change everyone's life. I knew I wasn't getting all my meat from the processor. I have changed many times because of this. Thank you for opening my eyes more. And giving me an opportunity to do it myself. True Freedom. 🇺🇸

My father worked on a mink farm along with growing up on a farm. Then one of his good friends, I still hunt with his sons and grandsons, worked in a butcher shop. With deer season just with my nieces and nephew we can have 10 deer here in PA. We normally cut up 20 to 30 deer out of the barn and have an area to cut deer in. Last year we butchered a steer instead of having a butcher do it. The farmer that raised it worked as a mechanic, retired and is the local magistrate now. he was surprised just how fast a few of us cut it up. The old solders 10 level skills manual for the army had preparing wild game in it I think until the 70s. It went over the different cuts. by the 90s when I went to fort Lost in the woods, it was out of the manual. It is still in the cook's manual and had two deer used as training when I was at Ft Hood.

@Mr_Luca82

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Ft. Leonard Wood 2008. Essayons!

@brett76544

Жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Luca82 Oh, yes in 1990.

@Mr_Luca82

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@@brett76544 MP or Engineer?

@brett76544

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@@Mr_Luca82 12 BoBo, but had 62J, 62E, 12F and supply as squad leaders. So, I learned how to operate everything.

@randydobson4719

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Combat engineer 1977 🇺🇸

Glad you are covering this!! So many butchers/processors are stealing & I know it!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

He said it all right they’re proud grandma!

@wadeshelton2911

Жыл бұрын

I’ve had 3 steers butchered in the last 4 years,all within 50 lbs of each other and have taken them to 3 different local processors all with the same cutting instructions, unbelievable how the finished weight differed and amounts of items varied. Proof to what he is saying. I will find the time to do my own the next time.

Very interesting! Thank you so much! I appreciate you all. ❤

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I'm to your channel and I appreciate you so much brother thank you for real

I prefer pork broth. So much flavor. Our butcher gave us the bones. Asked if we wanted organ meat. My bull filled a deep freeze entirely and 2 shelves of our upright.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Love to hear it Cindy!

New subscriber. Thank you for all of this info. Will be going back to watch some of your other vids

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

@consco3667

Жыл бұрын

@@PermaPasturesFarm21 thanks for the great content and spending your time educating us about your craft

Thank you brother from the Bronx

Great info!! Thanks for sharing!!!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

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Of course my friend. Thanks for watching.

You can count on loosing on an average 40% in weight with inners, hid and bones.

This goes for deer processors also. They keep and throw away a lot.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

They sure do my friend. Unfortunately.

@jenbear8652

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We have Amish friends building their own butcher house/shed because of that very thing. Plus they said when they make a good kill for the best quality meat, they’ve gotten back from the processor tainted meat. They found out the butcher was mixing different peoples deer up or mixing the meat together instead of keeping each persons deer separate. Now he’ll be doing all his himself.

Thank you, great subject! Its not just what they keep, I've had them on my beef switch some of my prime cuts for a garbage raised beef, no doubt that went home with them. Found out friend had the same happen to them, do it yourself, not worth loosing what you invested.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that my friend but I agree, do it yourself. Thanks so much for watching!

Hey Billy!!! Good stuff buddy

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, my friend

Just subbed. This is awesome,thank you.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support my friend!!

You are absolutely right. We have been robbed every time we have had meat processed. We are doing it all ourselves from now on. I wish I could have back all that money we wasted and we don’t even know if they gave us our actual meat. Thanks!!