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nicolesspirit
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we are buying a cow!
nicolesspirit
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Not that it matters since he will be neatly packed away in our new chest freezer but husband decided to get our own organic cow this year and have it processed so we can choose the cuts of meat! We eat alot of fish, so it will be a change to have an almost unlimited supply of meat but I like that it is so healthy and supported a local farmer!
Anyone else do all organic meats?
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Re: we are buying a cow!
look at the birds | bless this food
We are buying a half so it should equal out to be around 450lbs of meat but it will be 1.98 to 2.10 a lb for any cut I want. I can also get them as lean as I prefer which may increase the price by a few cents but not much. Our grocery bill will be so much less every month were saving so much money its ridiculous!
~*DUE MARCH 5th 2014*~
we try to do mostly organic everything... milk is so much better and the juice doesn't make my 2 year old hyper!
Congrats - that is a great idea... i would have to buy another freezer though!
LOL. We usually split a cow with my parents. Delicious. I could so go for a burger right now.
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Ok, maybe I should know this, but can someone please define 'organic cow' for me?? Are you just talking about local, grain fed beef?
Anyway, we've done this for years because my uncle raises cattle. Whenever he butchers one, we usually buy half. I showed a steer in FFA in HS too and we butchered him because he didn't make the sale. He was huge!! 18mos, 1652lbs live and dressed at 60%. We ate 'Poof' burgers for a long time. Home, grain fed beef (or anything else) is always way better than store bought.
(Yes, I know some people find this callous and horrifying, but that's just the way I was raised and it doesn't bother me. We raised and butchered pigs too.)
More than likely, it's not a 'cow' you're buying... it's probably a steer (a male castrated at a young age), that's what is typically butchered for private sale purposes. A cow is a female of the bovine species, and although cows all end up in the meat supply at some point in their lives, usually it is as ground beef.
Is the farmer selling it to you as organically-raised, or are you just calling it organic because it is from a local producer? The only difference between conventionally-raised and organically-raised animals is in the production methods used (organic is not allowed to use antibiotics when an animal gets sick, otherwise the diet, processing, etc. is the same either way). There is no actual difference in the end meat product itself, but it costs the consumer more since it is a niche product. Same with dairy - the only difference between conventional and organic is the production methods - the milk from the cows is the same. There is absolutely no way to tell the difference between meat/milk from an organically-raised animal and that from a conventionally-raised animal. I have a degree in Dairy Science and have been on a farm my entire life, so I learned this stuff from a pretty young age.
We buy either 1/4 or 1/2 a steer every year, we go together with my IL's and buy a steer from a 4-H or FFA kid at the county fair livestock sale, usually for anywhere from $1.65 to $2.00 a pound. Good way to support youth programs and have meat in the freezer year-round. Definitely saves a lot from paying retail at the grocery store. And like the pp, I too have butchered my own steers & pigs.
Thats awesome, my cousins from Ohio do that, not organic, but get a whole cow. My cousins wifes grandfather has a farm and they buy their cow for however long they use it for. Its pretty cool I would LOVE to do thta, but don't have a freezer like that (we did, but we gave it away)