Does anyone else butcher their own meat?

[Poka_Doodle]

We butcher all meat we kill. This includes turning our shop ing to a butcher room after each sugcessful Elk or Deer hunt. We also do our chickens, and it takes all night. I manage to escape every time from killing and chicken butcher. But I oddly love helping the guys butcher Elk or what ever they get. Cutting meat takes a decent bit of time and I have been know to also cut myself when not wearing latex gloves, but it is still so much fun. I only escape chicken butchering because I have a close connection with the species.
If anyone else does or is interested in it please post about it. This is also on TSS.

 

[Goatgirl47]

We butcher deer, and chickens ourselves, but we bring our cows to a slaughter house. Do you raise meat chickens?

 

[Baymule]

I butcher my own chickens, so far it's been old hens and the roosters from a straight run. But I want to get better set up for growing off my own chickens and my breed of choice is Delaware. I will get chicks in the spring.

2 years ago, I ordered 20 ducklings, raised them up and butchered them. Tasty. In the far past, I raised rabbits, quail and pheasants and butchered them.

I can take a deer from the field to the plate. I haven't hunted in a long time, but a friend of ours has promised us deer meat if his hunt is successful. Told him to skin, gut, quarter and drop in ice chest. I'll take it from there.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Cool, we raise meat chickens, next year I will be doing it for 4h for my first time.
I might get to butcher 2 elk today

 

[Latestarter]

If you happen to have any extra elk, please let me know and I'll gladly take it off your hands!

 

[Southern by choice]

We only do chicken, turkey, duck, goose and deer.
Goats go to our local processor... very inexpensive and cut the way we want. Vacuum packed, labeled, weighed.... $60 for </=60 lbs hanging weight >60 lbs is $1 lb. additional.
For us the time savings as well as having it ground up and cut the way we like is well worth the (basically) $1 pound.

@Latestarter - YOU need to go hunt some elk and ship some out to me.

 

[Hens and Roos]

We do rabbits, chickens, and sometimes turkey and meat chickens.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

If you happen to have any extra elk, please let me know and I'll gladly take it off your hands!

I actually would, but we never do . Maybe you should learn to hunt and thenput in for a last season cow tag in Creed next year. That is a family thing and it took 2 days to get 2 elk this year. If you are looking to buy beef let me know, my uncle farms cows in SD but then brings them back and sells quarters

 

[Latestarter]

I've hunted all my life... just much older now and makes it a lot more work and all my kids are grown and gone so nobody to go with My kids were basically raised on venison and some elk.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

I don't hunt anyways, but Creed is a great hunting area