Does anyone else butcher their own meat?

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I've hung deer from a tree before to skin and gut them. From there they get quartered and dropped in an ice chest. After several days on ice, drained twice a day, then to the kitchen to be processed.

So you live in a isolated rural location with a harsh climate.......:lol: there's no place like home!
 
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We butchered my meat chickens this summer, but now that hunting season has started the fun butchering has finally started. We butchered an antelope yesterday, it was interesting.
 
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Pronghorn is not an antelope...its more closely related to a giraffe then anything else. But yeah definitely not the same family of critter.

Maybe out on the range people call them antelopes?
 
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Butchering meat birds is way less fun than butchering big animals. Birds are gross! We are doing a pig soon... Anxious to do it all at home this time! Well, except the smoking. We have a friend who's set up for it so why bother trying to do it at home?​
 
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NH homesteader said:
Butchering meat birds is way less fun than butchering big animals. Birds are gross! We are doing a pig soon... Anxious to do it all at home this time! Well, except the smoking. We have a friend who's set up for it so why bother trying to do it at home?​
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I agree i hate doing poultry but i dont eat store poultry so i must!!

I like doing deer and pigs.
 
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We don't do store poultry either. In fact we don't do store anything unless we are desperate!

Between now and Thanksgiving we need to butcher 8 turkeys and 36 or so meat birds, and a pig. Hopefully we'll also have a deer shortly after!
 
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