Billy the Steer 'D' Day!

The kids were super excited to butcher the steer. Here they are all watching from the window. They have also been missing the beef we've have been doing without. Steer butchering = BEEF to them which I think is awesome! If you look thru the window you can see a hay bale and a black blob.. that's Billy the Steer moments before death. Papa walked behind the hay bale and stunned him between the eyes with a small cal rifle, that we borrowed :) Then he slit the jugular with my big kitchen knife. Quick and painless. 

This is the steers back. For a jersey holstein, angus he was VERY tall and consiterbly fatter then I thought he'd be. Grassfed beef.. very yellow, good for you fat! We skinned and gutted him before cutting him into about 6 pieces to take to a local meat shop. Normally we would hang and cut & wrap him ourselves but we have no place to hang him this late in the year without him freezing solid (which is not good for aging), and we've been super busy and not slowing down much, so we decided to have him done. We were going to cut him into quarters and lift them into the back the the T-all but he was BIG and we knew we could not lift them in. Even in 6 pieces we had a time getting some of the bigger ones in. He weighed in at 656lbs at the butcher shop! Just a warning. There is a kinda nasty picture of Papa coming up! I think it's funny because it has happened to him a few times and he has a way of getting FILTHY doing something that someone else doesn't even get dirty doing! He has a reputation at work for attracting dirt just by looking at it.

J REALLY wanted to help and he cut this foot off by himself with the meat saw. 

As Danno likes to say.. DON"T LICK YOUR LIPS!!