Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

I got all the legs done yesterday, shoulders and hams, plus some backstrap. I cut the bottom shank of the legs off for soup and stew.

Kyle brought his pruning loppers when we slaughtered the lambs. I was amazed with how easy it made cutting off the lower legs and cutting through bones. I have several, so I picked a likely pair, sharpened it and used it in the house. So much better than hacking at bones with a hatchet, cleaver and much easier than a meat saw or hack saw. I'm gonna buy a brand new pair and keep them in the house just for slaughter.

After I take my SIL to PT, I'll come home and finish up. Now it's all the small pieces, flanks, trim and such. Time for the meat grinder. I'm weighing pieces as I vacuum seal and I'll total it all up when I'm done.

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[fuzzi]

I got all the legs done yesterday, shoulders and hams, plus some backstrap. I cut the bottom shank of the legs off for soup and stew.

Kyle brought his pruning loppers when we slaughtered the lambs. I was amazed with how easy it made cutting off the lower legs and cutting through bones. I have several, so I picked a likely pair, sharpened it and used it in the house. So much better than hacking at bones with a hatchet, cleaver and much easier than a meat saw or hack saw. I'm gonna buy a brand new pair and keep them in the house just for slaughter.

After I take my SIL to PT, I'll come home and finish up. Now it's all the small pieces, flanks, trim and such. Time for the meat grinder. I'm weighing pieces as I vacuum seal and I'll total it all up when I'm done.

Ace GT2617A 32 in. Carbon Steel Bypass Lopper Mfr# GT2617A - Ace Hardware

These Ace Branded loppers are designed for smooth clean cuts on all branches. You will get premium cuts at a tremendous value. Non-stick coating on the blades will prevent cutting blade gumming. Non slip grips will aide you in cutting at any angle.Find the LOPPER BYPASS HD 32 at Ace.

www.acehardware.com

I imagine bolt cutters would work well, too.

 

[Baymule]

I imagine bolt cutters would work well, too.

They don't open wide enough. I have some and they don't have to opening range that loppers do.

 

[drstratton]

I got all the legs done yesterday, shoulders and hams, plus some backstrap. I cut the bottom shank of the legs off for soup and stew.

Kyle brought his pruning loppers when we slaughtered the lambs. I was amazed with how easy it made cutting off the lower legs and cutting through bones. I have several, so I picked a likely pair, sharpened it and used it in the house. So much better than hacking at bones with a hatchet, cleaver and much easier than a meat saw or hack saw. I'm gonna buy a brand new pair and keep them in the house just for slaughter.

After I take my SIL to PT, I'll come home and finish up. Now it's all the small pieces, flanks, trim and such. Time for the meat grinder. I'm weighing pieces as I vacuum seal and I'll total it all up when I'm done.

Ace GT2617A 32 in. Carbon Steel Bypass Lopper Mfr# GT2617A - Ace Hardware

These Ace Branded loppers are designed for smooth clean cuts on all branches. You will get premium cuts at a tremendous value. Non-stick coating on the blades will prevent cutting blade gumming. Non slip grips will aide you in cutting at any angle.Find the LOPPER BYPASS HD 32 at Ace.

www.acehardware.com

Have you discovered a new line of work?

Baymule's Butcher Shop
You raise it, we help you braise it!

 

[murphysranch]

See that ear? Its about 7-8" long. My friends hubs got a special elk tag, and it took two weeks to find this bull. He saved those hooves, cus one of them has hoof rot. He'll turn them in and get put in a drawing for a special tag again next year. They are trying to track hoof rot.

 

[drstratton]

See that ear? Its about 7-8" long. My friends hubs got a special elk tag, and it took two weeks to find this bull. He saved those hooves, cus one of them has hoof rot. He'll turn them in and get put in a drawing for a special tag again next year. They are trying to track hoof rot.
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Thank you for sharing the size of the ear. Puts it more into perspective, couldn't tell it was that big from the picture. They are such magnificent animals.

Sad about the hoof rot. Hope he wins a tag.

 

[Baymule]

Have you discovered a new line of work?

Baymule's Butcher Shop
You raise it, we help you braise it!

Not a new line of work to me. I've done all kinds of butchering. I raised rabbits and quail in my early 20's and had tons of recipes for rabbit. LOL I've processed lots of deer, only have shot 2 deer myself. I've raised domestic hogs, slaughtered and processed some of them and processed feral hogs too. I've never slaughtered or processed lambs, just couldn't do it. I could take them to a processor and pay $95 to have it done. I said I could if I HAD to, but I didn't have to. Well now processing is $150 and it's not worth $450 plus hauling them, to have them done. Now after processing them, I think next time I can shoot them myself.

I processed skirt steak yesterday after/evening. Lots of work, I can see why it gets ground up. Lots of fat, ligaments and just hard to clean up. I cooked a small piece, cut into strips it was way too tough and chewy. So I cut it into tiny pieces and that was good, I snacked on it while I worked.

My appointment for bone scan results got moved to next Tuesday and I'm ok with that. That gives me all day to get finished up, I will be grinding meat today, the flanks and meat scraps. The flanks have a covering of tough, not silver skin, not ligaments, but a film of tough whatever it is that clogs up my little meat grinder. I'll try to clean off as much as I can and will just have to stop and clean the grinder often.

In other news, I AM GETTING A HORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Next Wednesday the 19th, I'm going to Corpus Christi to watch a school program that my middle granddaughter is in. She is in Drum Club and they are putting on a presentation.

The next day I go pick up my horse. He's an 11 year old Thoroughbred. Free. Sad circumstances. His owner is the lady that gives riding lessons to my youngest granddaughter and she is in kidney failure. She is giving away her horses to find good homes for them. He is too spirited for a lesson horse, he is not a kid horse, but I can deal with spirit, just won't deal with crazy anymore. She also has 2 very old geldings, 30 years old, that if they were any younger, I'd take them too. But she said they are in bad shape due to their age and probably couldn't make the trip. I'm pretty sure she will wind up putting them down. She is only in her 40's, has husband, kids, this is awful for her. I feel bad for her. Being sick is bad enough, but she is unable to care for her beloved horses anymore.

No, I am not ready for a horse. I don't even have a pen to put him in. But when did being totally unprepared ever stop me? The crappy shelter I used for Reina, the bat sh!t crazy palomino mare I had, is still standing, so I'll do some work on it to make it better. I have panels for a 60' round pen, and can throw that up. I have mowing to do and some clean up and he will have accommodations. Not fancy by any means, but it will do. Later when I get proper fencing up, he will have fields to run and graze in. In the meantime I can RIDE.

So let's see.........finish up the lamb processing today..........take SIL to PT Wednesday morning, Friday morning and Monday morning. I have doctor appointment next Tuesday in Tyler, it will be an all day thing.I can work on shelter and pen Wednesday afternoon, all day Thursday, Friday afternoon, over the weekend and Monday afternoon. Leave Wednesday, the 19th for Corpus Christi and come back Thursday with my horse. AND I have @Ridgetop and her husband and their dog Ozel on the way, probably tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon, for a hot date with Buford. Hopefully she will be wildly attracted to that handsome stud and fall madly in love, consummate that love and then drop him like a hot rock and be ready to go home to her sheep. At least by Friday, ok Saturday, but she can take all the time she wants as long as she sees Buford as an acceptable baby daddy. Ridgetop and I talked and decided that I can pull the stock trailer in the sorting pen and drop it. I can open the gate (not really a gate, it's a hog panel I can swing open or closed) and give Buford access to the trailer so he and Ozel can flirt with each other all night before we resume the mating dance during the day. Hmmm........ I gotta put the tractor diesel in the truck, the fuel light is on, won't go far like that. fuel gauge is broke. Then I can go to Apple Springs and pay the big money they charge for being the only gas station for 25 miles in any direction. At least enough so I can make it to Lufkin later to fill it up.

Getting daylight, do chores and finish meat. I'm off and running!

 

[fuzzi]

Happy, happy for you!!!!!