For research article number 2 I am going to talk about the butchering of cows.
Often after having raised a cow for a year they will most likely be ready for butchering. There are two options for butchering. The first is transporting the cow to the meat locker. The other option is to pay a butcher to come out and kill the cow on your farm.
My preferred method is to have the butcher come to the farm and kill the cow there. The reason I picked this is that the cow does not get tense or stressed and this makes the meat less tender. When you transport a cow it gets stressed which makes the meat much tougher and sometimes not able to be eaten because tough meat dose not taste good. So if you have the butcher come to the farm, you do not risk stressing the cow and more than likely the meat will be very tender.
When the butcher comes, he will distract the cow in the pasture with a bucket of feed. Then he will shoot the cow with a 22 rifle between the two eyes right in the head. (Mike W.) Once the cow is shot they will lift the body with a loader tractor up in the air, chop the head off, then gut the cow and skin it. The butcher will then take the remains back to the meat locker. (Mike W.) Such as the Eureka meat locker.
Then you can bury the head of the cow or throw it away. If you bury the head and wait about a year you can dig it up. Depending on how long the horns are, in the condition they are in and if they haven’t been roped or broken you can get anywhere from $500 to $1,000. In the next article we will talk about the cuts of meat that can come from the body of the cow.
Often after having raised a cow for a year they will most likely be ready for butchering. There are two options for butchering. The first is transporting the cow to the meat locker. The other option is to pay a butcher to come out and kill the cow on your farm.
My preferred method is to have the butcher come to the farm and kill the cow there. The reason I picked this is that the cow does not get tense or stressed and this makes the meat less tender. When you transport a cow it gets stressed which makes the meat much tougher and sometimes not able to be eaten because tough meat dose not taste good. So if you have the butcher come to the farm, you do not risk stressing the cow and more than likely the meat will be very tender.
When the butcher comes, he will distract the cow in the pasture with a bucket of feed. Then he will shoot the cow with a 22 rifle between the two eyes right in the head. (Mike W.) Once the cow is shot they will lift the body with a loader tractor up in the air, chop the head off, then gut the cow and skin it. The butcher will then take the remains back to the meat locker. (Mike W.) Such as the Eureka meat locker.
Then you can bury the head of the cow or throw it away. If you bury the head and wait about a year you can dig it up. Depending on how long the horns are, in the condition they are in and if they haven’t been roped or broken you can get anywhere from $500 to $1,000. In the next article we will talk about the cuts of meat that can come from the body of the cow.