Don't sell yourself short, you have excellent and informative videos. Keep them coming!

Evan, the look of Pride, and Accomplishment, on your face!! WELL DESERVED! You guys have every Right to be Proud of your hard work!

My steer was around 1000 lbs live weight when I sent him and we got 502 lbs of meat back. And with the 28 day hang the meat was incredibly tender. So the longer hang time paid off for us.

@LedgemereHeritageFarm

2 жыл бұрын

That’s absolutely true. It’s well worth the wait

@freeholdequine2733

2 жыл бұрын

@@LedgemereHeritageFarm yeah . Have been raising lamb for a few years and decided to raise a bottle calf for the first time to gauge how difficult it would be to see if it was a viable option for our farm . Like Evan we do a little of this and a little of that.

@LedgemereHeritageFarm

2 жыл бұрын

@@freeholdequine2733 same here. I get Jersey calves from A local dairy for next to nothing. We have sheep and chickens as well

We just picked up a hog from the processor today too. It’s such a great feeling having freezers full of good healthy meat that you raised.

Great video! Very informative… Really enjoying your channel.

Thanks Evan and Rebecca for sharing with us, so glad you both are doing so well with your work on the farm. Stay safe and keep up the good work and videos. Fred. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻✋🏻✋🏻

Thank you very much that was a very good video I wish you all the luck in the world

great video,, i needed to hear all the info. i can, thanks Evan.

Good to see you guys again. Mighty fine haul of meat from the hogs. Looking forward to a great video.

More talkative than your usually vids maybe but highly informative. The hoof weight to finished product and such was interesting for starters. And personally I never even knew there was such a thing as a fridge/freezer option in the same unit - haven't purchased either in a few years. So yeah thanks for the info and another great video.

Thanks for the information.

I always enjoy hearing your breakdown of the costs and how things went. They are real helpful to me in showing me what to keep track of personally in my own enterprises.

Thanks for sharing. I am strongly considering making the jump to raise my own animals as well. This helps a feller learn somethings. 👍🏼

Very interesting video today. I really enjoyed it.

Talk all you want, your speech is knowledge. That is why we watch and listen. Great video!

Great video. Important information to pass along.

Well done, very informative and enjoyable to listen to..

I just subscribed to your channel a few days ago and I’ve got to tell you your videos are excellent I love the detail and the slow pace and everything, you definitely have a talent for this and it is really cool to see your farm develop , thank you and keep up the good work please !

Found this very interesting and informative

Great information Evan

Thanks for giving a City Slicker a run down of costs, most interesting, and you know exactly what you are getting.

Thank you for going thru that.

Thanks for sharing. Blessings🙂

wow nice job! This city slicker loved tbe info..I took notes! I never even heard of a convertable freezer/fridge

Always good to see your friendly, smiling face on a new video, Mr. Evan. I perceive the time is coming when all of that stored food will serve you very well ...

Some great info! Thanks. Never heard of the convertible freezer. That's amazing! Definitely need to find a local farmer to buy meat next year.

Wow, they were huge. Great job.

The pigs turned out really well for you and Rebecca and now you are ready for the winter with plenty of pork and the beef is coming, so you will have home grown beef, pork, vegetables and fruits in the freezer. I like the way you have done the pole barn, the dog kennel looks really good and I know the dogs will love it and the rest is coming along also.

Thank you a lot of useful information something to think about thank you

Enjoyed watching and listening!

Informative video for sure. I can't say its one of my favorites but it really is a good one to learn from. Kind of like needing that one college course that you have to have but it's not the most exciting subject... lol We're getting ready to move out to our new property in a few months and will probably be taking a similar journey as you guys, dipping our toes into different things to see what we can and can't do or, more like, what we want and don't want to do. Thanks.

Thanks for the video Evan. Really appreciate the day to day life on your lifestyle block. You come across as a real down to earth decent person. Not the typical loud brash in your face American that we see and hear in the media here in Australia. Keep those videos coming Mate ( Australian slang = friend)

This is a great info video.

Good video thanks

Very interesting video thanks for sharing

Love your transparency on the costs etc and my word.........thats a lotta meat!

Wish I lived closer I’d buy a half a steer from you! Thanks for the up date. 🥰🙃

Wow, they weighed so much more than what they looked like on video. Absolutely large.

My freezers are full of venison right now. Full freezers is a good problem to have. Congratulations on your harvest. 👍👍❤

Proud for you and Rebecca!

Good info

Great videos... Happy Thanksgiving! Keep up the good work.

The pork is so dark. Looks amazing also a good idea to have the convertables

Very interested video

One of the best video's on youtube.

Great job!! You sure are going to be very well stocked up. You forgot to touch upon the fact the the frig/freezer will be great to have it on frig mode for the meat to rest once you start butchering your own meat. You can do that for the chickens next time you process them 👍 Happy for you both Corpus Christi TX

@CountryViewAcres

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I was definitely thinking using it for when butchering chckens.

JudithB We enjoyed having our own meat from the farm, processed the way we wanted! We had to shuffle our current freezers to get sale turkeys in, plan to cook and can 2 next week! I think we are going to concentrate on hams and pork roasts after Thanksgiving and fill more jars.

Cold beers for the summer time 🍺🍻 in the pole barn Evan 😊👍

Look at all that meat, it´s very very good to have this for the winter to come, and also know where your meat comes from, nothing extra weird in those, wonderful, I liked to know this even that the costs doesnt match in my country, it is still interesting :)

As always a Great Video , its great that you look after the family in the process , and YES this is heaps cheaper than buying from the store , Packet meat from the store is expensive , at least you know what your getting is super fresh and great quality , again just an awesome way of life , it aint easy , but definitely worth it , a huge Hello from Perth Australia

Good stuff.

Thanks for sharing. The meat looks great! The bacon looks like it will be a great breakfast delight. It seems like you will save a lot with all that meat and the cost of things going up.

I have a steer that I will be sending to freezer camp in September. I am hoping he is not too terribly big by then because I have one old freezer and plan on getting another one soon. I am hoping to can a some of the meat. I have gotten a side of beef before and it filled my freezer.

chest freezer with extra temp. control to cut off at 33 deg and on at 36 deg will save a lot of money over an upright freezer in upfront cost and in running cost.

Good advice! And I can't eat commercially produced ag products (Roundup makes me ill) and was so lucky to find a farmer who produces pasture raised, chemical-free beef (I get milk from his dairy) and now his brother is producing pastured pork. I had to buy a freezer, too! It is now almost half-full of beef and I have yet to pick up our half pig! Hope it fits! And the price per pound was much less than what I would pay at my organic food market - so I have not only more meat, but cuts that I could not afford to buy. This amount of meat will last us a year (or more).

It's good that the pigs are back from Camp freezer .Thanks for Video . When's the cook out ?

That looks like a great load of prime meat. U know they have had a good life & will taste great. 😋

Me and wife liked this video. Me and wife enjoy your video's.

Picking up my hog today. Picked up half a beef 2 weeks ago. We are set for a little while. Now I just need to find a local chicken farmer.

We always used to cure the bacon and hams ourselves. We liked a wet cure, and had so much fun exploring different methods of curing.

@CountryViewAcres

2 жыл бұрын

We cured our own bacon before. I didn't think about it this year.

We had a pig farm in the 1990's. Back then the industry average was about 600 pounds of feed to take a 40 pound pig to market weight at about 240 pounds. In those days lean pork was more desirable, I believe market hogs today are much heavier. We never butchered our hogs we always had that done at a local processor. We sold lots of live hogs to customers where we normally delivered the hog to the processor. We had one customer who always had the whole hog processed into sausage. Thanks for sharing this with us.

@CountryViewAcres

2 жыл бұрын

It the past couple years I seemed to feed 900 pounds of feed to each pig. For around a 300 pound pig. I will track it better next year.

That pork shoulder roast will take a long time to smoke but well worth it. It just did 2 roasts and froze a lot of the smoked pork in one pound packages to eat during the winter when it’s too cold to be outside. This past summer, we purchased a 1/4 cow from a local farmer and the meat is fabulous. The average price of the beef was $5 a pound and we haven’t been disappointed. We are considering half a pig next year.

Looks like your estimates on weight a couple weeks ago were spot on Even.

You know exactly what went into the animals and how they were treated whilst alive. Just knowing that makes them taste better. Traceability, Farm to Fork. Worth every penny.

Great video, very informative, thank you. You remind me of my other favorite farmer YT channel called Just a Few Acres Farm. Pete in central NYS, has great information and brings joy…you do too…thank you.

@CountryViewAcres

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Pete has a great channel.

I don’t see any reason to buy special pig feed just to keep track of feed costs, when you know what you’ve got works for all your critters. You know how much you’ve bought (weight wise).. just put a clipboard with a tally sheet next to your supplies and put hash marks for every 5 gallon pail used (for each animal group). Weigh a full pail of feed and use it as an approximation to figure your future or past costs (since you fed them every day x times)… it’s not exact, but should suffice. Don’t waist time and money buying “special feed” when you’re going to get the best price buying bulk corn and processing/mixing it yourself. You’ve already proven it works!

Thanks Evan for taking the time to make the cost breakdowns. I can't think of any other homesteader doing this as consistently as y'all. Could you estimate how much your grocer costs are because of everything self-produced? Maybe a rough estimate of savings for what you don't spend on groceries. Your whole 'system' of getting to where y'all are from your first vlogs has been a great inspiration for a DIY lifestyle. Liked to ask for hunting vlog if your inclined to, for this season, just another harvestable resource from the farm. Happy Thanksgiving!

Good morning from Grand Forks

Looks like your set for another year!

YAY! The pigs are back! 😃 ... Wait a moment... ... Somehow they look a bit different...😮 😉 Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻

@Infinity.....

2 жыл бұрын

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Good one

Evan nice haul on the pork,my question is since your freezer all full where you gonna put the beef at.

Thx

That was interesting, nice job! You could just weigh a 5 gal. bucket of corn, and keep track of how many you feed your pigs for an end-of-year, per-pound cost of the feed.

Nice..

at our Krogers store in the Houston area, the pork roasts were $0.89/lb last week. Yesterday, we bought beef ribeye steaks at $5.97/lb and we bought a ham and got free turkey at Brookshire Bros grocery. 3 weeks ago I dropped two nuisance feral hogs but I left them for the buzzards. we have a bad feral hog problem in East Texas.

I would get two larger chest style freezers. Take care folks.

Great info. We are wanting to be able to pay a friend that raises their own personal beef and buy our own steer and have it processed. That way you know it's all natural, no preservatives or antibiotics. And I was curious the cost to process if you haul the animal to the shop alive. In the old days when I was growing up, the shops we went to came out, killed and dressed the animal on site, cut it in half and hauled it off in a refrigerated truck. It got to the point where that was expensive. We tried on a steer once to do the field dress ourselves and that was downright messy! I think the last few years my parents butchered their own, they hauled it in live but I had already moved away. Anyhow, very informative. Thanks.

WOW that is alot of meat and all i got is very hungry { lol} i think there is a high number of people doing just what you folks did because then u know what u are really eating.. great videos...

There are two year waiting list here in Kansas.

There’s a site you want to look at just a few acres more Homestead farm he does a lot of pics and that he has a very good system storing

That shoulder!!!

I have never heard of a convertible freezer. I'm just curious what brand and model your new one is. I deffently need one. Thanks for sharing. Big thumbs up..........

@CountryViewAcres

2 жыл бұрын

It is an insignia ' bought it from best buy. Ordered it, took about 5 days to get it.

Consumers have no idea how much it costs to grow an animal for slaughter. Thank You for sharing

Now that's a lot of meat to eat! Happy eating!

With so many refrigerators and freezers, wonder what your electric bill jumps to next month. What about a root cellar? Could that be a helpful option ?

Evan, that is a good thing. I prefer larger hogs to butcher. You get larger hams, picnics and shoulders. The upside to me is you can have one ham cut into steaks, as well as one shoulder, plus have the ones from the other side cut in half. I bought a half a hog at the locker plant this year, I ended up mostly with bacon and sausage, my friend did not want any shoulder roasts, and I forgot to have the picnic cured and smoked. If they did the jowl, they marked it as bacon.

How long did you end up having the pigs on the farm? Our first ones we are feeding out are scheduled to to go in March. I'm nervous we got them to early and they will be pretty large by then.

Let’s have a cookout!😊🥩🥓🍗

Concerning feed estimates, Could you take the number of months last time and figure your average cost to raise pigs per month and then use that number for each of the extra months this time?

We have been raising our own beef for many years. We prefer to take ours strait off of grass to butcher. Seems to have better taste than feeding out for more weight.

Chest freezers are more economical to use whatever country or are you then stand-up ones you can store more food in them specially the big ones I think you need to look into that

@CountryViewAcres

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, chest freezers are more economical and store more food. But uprights are easier to find what you looking for and take up less floor space. They each have their advantages and disadvantages. Just depends on what you want. If you want a cheap way to store lots of frozen food, the chest freezer is the way to go.

FYI: Fridges and Freezers need to be kept in a heated or cooled space between 50-80 degrees F, recommended to be 60-65. Unconditioned spaces are not recommended because the fridge/freeze has to work harder to keep things cool. Otherwise you are wasting energy, found that out the hard way. Read the manual...

@theElderberryFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

If you know that you are going to have to put the fridge or freezer in an unheated/uncooled space, look for appliances marked as "garage ready". They are set up to operate in wider temperature ranges than a traditional fridge or freezer.

@philswords6390

2 жыл бұрын

Obviously easier to cool in 70degree space vs a 95 degree space. Requires a little more maintenance to keep cooling fins clean and clear of junk.

@CountryViewAcres

2 жыл бұрын

I read my manual, it said to keep it the coolest location. You just don't want it colder than the temperature setting.

Hope you have a whole house generator?

What’s the ball park on what a 1/2 pig works out to for cost per pound for the customer? When we get a 1/2 side of beef it usually comes out to about $3.50/lb which is much cheaper than the grocery store and for much better quality meat. Do you have any plans for getting USDA inspection to allow you to sell individual cuts?

I’ve never heard of the freezer refrigerator like that what are they called

Evan you try to salt cure a ham. that is really good fried up for breakfast with eggs and biscuits .+

If you like shredded pork, you might consider canning that pork shoulder. 1 pint per pound and it comes out absolutely delicious. I can mine with nothing else in the jar, just pork. It's great for tacos, pulled pork sandwiches, you name it. Plus it frees up room in your freezer.

Surprised at $1.21 per pound processing but after thinking about it, doesn’t seem that bad. Growing up approximately 50 years ago I remember many local processors. Now I don’t know where a processor might be locally. Guessing at least an hour if not two hour drive. But is better or at least more convenient than store bought. Another good video.

@CountryViewAcres

2 жыл бұрын

If I wouldn't have had the cured and smoked hams. It would have been only $.78 per pound. The curing and smoking add up.

For reference, how long will all that meat hold in a freezer? I was always under the impression 3 months tops for meat, but maybe that's just store bought and not vacuumed sealed.

@CountryViewAcres

2 жыл бұрын

Vacuum sealed it is good for a year or more.