Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

[C-Mag]

Which part is the vienna sausages?

Snouts and Assholes

I will be making some sausage out of her, but not a lot, some real bologna would be fantastic. Shootin for 150# each Steak, Roast, Burger, remainder will be misc. Stew meat, ribs, etc.

Most the big round steaks I'll cube, gotta have some chicken fried steaks. I'll cut the roasts a minimum of 3#, but try for a 5# because a roast really doesn't cook right smaller than that.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Wow, you doing it all yourself? No mobile butcher?

[C-Mag]

Wow, you doing it all yourself? No mobile butcher?

I did have a local mobile butcher do the slaughter. I'm not set up to lift and move an animal like that right now. But I will do all the butchering after she has aged.

[Montegriffo]

Slaughtered the Beef today.
Hanging Carcass Weight was 577 lbs. Right about where I thought she'd be. Good marbling, she'll hang for about 17 days aging, then I'll butcher.

I shot a couple pics, I'll get them up when I can.

Do you have to follow legal guidelines for the slaughter like we do in the UK.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/slaughter-p ... onsumption

[SuburbanFarmer]

Slaughtered the Beef today.
Hanging Carcass Weight was 577 lbs. Right about where I thought she'd be. Good marbling, she'll hang for about 17 days aging, then I'll butcher.

I shot a couple pics, I'll get them up when I can.

Do you have to follow legal guidelines for the slaughter like we do in the UK.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/slaughter-p ... onsumption

Uhhh no.

That’s a bit silly, tbh.

[Montegriffo]

Slaughtered the Beef today.
Hanging Carcass Weight was 577 lbs. Right about where I thought she'd be. Good marbling, she'll hang for about 17 days aging, then I'll butcher.

I shot a couple pics, I'll get them up when I can.

Do you have to follow legal guidelines for the slaughter like we do in the UK.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/slaughter-p ... onsumption

Uhhh no.

That’s a bit silly, tbh.

Animal welfare is ''a bit silly''?
Why would you say that?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Do you have to follow legal guidelines for the slaughter like we do in the UK.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/slaughter-p ... onsumption

Uhhh no.

That’s a bit silly, tbh.

Animal welfare is ''a bit silly''?
Why would you say that?

Imagine you were about to die.

Would you rather be shocked senseless, wait 20 minutes, then be shot, OR simply shot in the head and done?

[C-Mag]

@Monte

I have no idea what the laws are on that kind of thing here. Probably not much. Honestly never crossed my mind to talk to the government about the rights and wrongs of butchering my animal.

I tell yell, I fretted over the decision how I was going to slaughter the cow for about 6 months. The mobile butcher slaughter was only like $120...................... but I'm such a cheap bastard on stuff like that it was a quandary for me. I just hate, hate paying others for shit I'm perfectly capable of doing myself.

[Montegriffo]

Uhhh no.

That’s a bit silly, tbh.

Animal welfare is ''a bit silly''?
Why would you say that?

Imagine you were about to die.

Would you rather be shocked senseless, wait 20 minutes, then be shot, OR simply shot in the head and done?

Don't know where you got that from. Not my link for sure.

Anyway I looked it up, you have the same rules about stunning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Slaughter_Act

7 U.S.C.A. § 1902. Humane

No method of slaughtering or handling in connection with slaughtering shall be deemed to comply with the public policy of the United States unless it is humane. Either of the following two methods of slaughtering and handling are hereby found to be humane

(a) in the case of cattle, calves, horses, mules, sheep, swine, and other livestock, all animals are rendered insensible to pain by a single blow or gunshot or an electrical, chemical or other means that is rapid and effective, before being shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast, or cut.

(b) by slaughtering in accordance with the ritual requirements of the Islamic and Jewish faith or any other religious faith that prescribes a method of slaughter whereby the animal suffers loss of consciousness by anemia of the brain caused by the simultaneous and instantaneous severance of the carotid arteries with a sharp instrument and handling in connection with such slaughtering.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Animal welfare is ''a bit silly''?
Why would you say that?

Imagine you were about to die.

Would you rather be shocked senseless, wait 20 minutes, then be shot, OR simply shot in the head and done?

Don't know where you got that from. Not my link for sure.

Anyway I looked it up, you have the same rules about stunning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Slaughter_Act

7 U.S.C.A. § 1902. Humane

No method of slaughtering or handling in connection with slaughtering shall be deemed to comply with the public policy of the United States unless it is humane. Either of the following two methods of slaughtering and handling are hereby found to be humane

(a) in the case of cattle, calves, horses, mules, sheep, swine, and other livestock, all animals are rendered insensible to pain by a single blow or gunshot or an electrical, chemical or other means that is rapid and effective, before being shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast, or cut.

(b) by slaughtering in accordance with the ritual requirements of the Islamic and Jewish faith or any other religious faith that prescribes a method of slaughter whereby the animal suffers loss of consciousness by anemia of the brain caused by the simultaneous and instantaneous severance of the carotid arteries with a sharp instrument and handling in connection with such slaughtering.

Your link says that they have to be shocked or knocked senseless before slaughter.

The US statute that you just pasted, simply says to shoot them.