I completely support harvesting your meat that you have raised. Nothing better than eating what you have raised for your own family consumption. Delicious! By the way my wife and I love liver and onions! Very good vlog today and excellent teamwork for your family food.
Justin, You need a second hoist and hook near the first hoist. Hook the front quarter before cutting it away from the hind. It won’t hit the floor. Having a rail to roll one away might be nice or something like Ben Hollar made for scalding hogs might be helpful.
Love to see others learning also .. this is life on a functioning farm .. You have a very happy and healthy lifestyle. You are both fun loving and dedicated parents.. Happy Day ❤
So I've been following your channel ever since the great American farm tour series you did way back, and I keep coming back to watch some of those episodes, because they taught me so much. And now, seeing the recent material, seeing how the boys have grown into men... Makes me feel old. Thank you so much for these videos, they mean a lot to me
In my country beef liver is a delicacy! Dont grind it, thats a crime😂. Cut it in slices like steak. Fry it a little bit in olive oil, get it out because when its overcooked it gets hard and in the remaining juices add chopped onions and cook them down. In the end add plenty of fresh lemon juice and add the liver back for a second. Serve it with the onions and some rice to soak the juices. My gosh, my mouth is watering just thinking about it😂
Those saying too many chiefs and not enough Indians.....this is a learning process for all, it's good to have the kids ideas and input even if they are wrong. Everyone had great ideas, some worked some didn't that's what the whole process is about LEARNING and the main thing doing it together. When we did our chickens we let our son try a slightly different way and he found it harder in the end but we let him try. One leader doesn't always mean efficient. Just remember your watching a family learn and grow, your not watching a MUST DO IT OUR WAY video. This is literally their life , we are just seeing a glimpse. Great job everyone ❤
I loved hearing Josiah and his friend tell you “I’ll do whatever you say”..good boys! Jonah is a Master..Justin you’ve done well teaching your children..they are amazing! Blessings❤
Liver may be a strong flavor, but done right it can be a spectacular meal. When I was growing up, I couldn’t even do the liver at first. But the liver and onions with a good gravy, really changed my mind. Watching everyone dive in on the butchering, was quite impressive! The boys will be able to process the meat in record time if they keep this up. These are life skills that need to be passed on.
Hard to watch, but it’s a necessary process and I’m sure those cows had a better life than any factory farm. I learned a few things which is good because one day we want to have cattle for meat. But for now we just have our dairy goats and we get meat from neighbors.
An older friend of mine bought a dozen cows to eventually butcher, 8 years later he has a dozen pet cows. He couldn’t do it. Neither could I. But I love beef, and all meat
I can't believe the YT czars have allowed this to stay up. LOL Appreciate your teaching and willingness to share. I look forward to meeting you all one day!
GREAT family learning and working together.. One word on a helpful tool during butcher - Reciprocating Saw... Tongue is delicious but needs a several step preparation to include pealing off that outer layer and lots of seasoning.. 50 Years ago a lovely Mexican lady that was working for a friend made us cheek tacos and tongue tacos.. I've never forgotten it!.. I love the liver idea to add to other meals.. GREAT job Lily on the cooking! Looks delicious... Great harvest day family! Thank you for sharing.
Shout out to John for getting right in there I'm sure he does not have the time in as the boys do takes a special person to get right in there, good job John!
Good work everyone! Maybe next time just a little tip. Get you a cordless sawzaw and a 12” blade. So so so much faster quicker and easier than a hack saw.
Justin. look up danish leverpostej, its a liver paté great for bread as a spread. its even beater when heated, and with bacon on the side. it should help you in your meat diet.
Beef cheeks are so delicious when cooked slowly in a slow cooker, they come out so tender. They were also cheap before Covid and now they are so expensive, but I still love them.
Oh my goodness, beef, tongue, tacos, and beef cheap tacos are the best! I’m glad you looked up how to cook beef tongue you have to pull that thick layer off after it has cooked for a while. I hope you enjoyed your tacos.
Justin I know this isn’t about this video but can you give info on where you get chicken butchering equipment and how big you got because I am doing turkeys and chickens. We do beef too
Austin should check out Matt Carriker utube channel. Hes recovering an abandoned 400 acre resort off the Guadalupe river in texas. He is a wild game enthusiast, needs pastures recovery, needs meat, needs a permaculture grazer and grower to supply the resturants, resort store for campers, events and guests. Greg Judy supplies the grass finished cattle, sheep and goats. He has labor, equipment, land and over 5 million subs. Austins channel and Greg Judy channels would blow up. Sell the meat by hanging weight, vegtables ect. Also has living accomodations. Plenty of water and a bluff to move it to padlocks. Would be a great opportunity. Matt is to busy building and cleaning up the old buildings to think about pasture recovery and food yet. Greg Judy could rent the ground reasonable and lock down becoming a primary start up supplier. Using food trucks loosing food revenue.
Hey Justin. Ever try liver as fresh as the day the animal was killed? The glycogen doesn't break down into lactic acid (stress hormone), and is sweet and healthy. It will also avoid the manure-y flavor.
Definitely easier to cut steers then bulls, testosterone increases the strength of the individual muscle fibres makes the meat chewier too. If you can find a way to hang the sides or quarters till rigor mortis sets in about (12-24 hours) you'll find the meat is tenderer then if it sits and is allowed to rigor without tension.
Mom used to do tongue with onions in the pressure cooker & then we'd have it with horseradish & some green salad & peas .. There are days that I wish I wasn't allergic to beef as some times I "crave" it so bad.... It's been nearly 40 yrs since the last time I tried to eat some with bad results.... 😢😢😢
This is how much more meat should be produced, one bad day and on farm slaughtering. Ofc on an industrial level this will always be difficult to du but they could at least try to get closer to this ideal.
Justin, I hope you learn a taste for beef tongue. It's one of my favourite parts. It's highly nutritious, it's tender and juicy. You just have to get your head past where it comes from. I mean, if you can get past where eggs come from, surely you can manage tongue...?
Just a reminder to be careful around that meat grinder. I know of at least two young boys who have lost one of their hands while helping the family make sausage.
I know, right. It's interesting my children don't see it in this light since they've grown up around it. It's totally normal to them. I think because people my age have been disconnected from it and are coming into in adulthood it's more emotional/dramatic.
@@theJustinRhodesShow even though I grew up in the city, the death part of rearing livestock was never lost to me because backyard chickens are common, and also having a goat or cow slaughtered for special occasion wasn't uncommon. However, my kids have never experienced such a thing because they are born and raised in Europe. So yes, it's our generation that's not making the connection.
so I remember telling a vegan on a UA-cam channel a year ago, "How your kids are pretty intelligent, and homeschooled, and they butcher their own food, and much more intelligent than most older adults, since they know where food comes from, but I wouldn't say they're smarter than kids in regular school", and they responded saying "There's nothing intelligent about taking someone's life against their will" so I responded back to them saying "Well tell that to Justin Rhodes here on UA-cam, not me, he's the one who butchers his own animals, i'm sure he'd like to have a conversation with you about it" lol, "some people" I guess just don't understand smh 🙄🤦♂
Good video, it is a good thing that you are involving your young men in the process of producing good quality food for your family, three steers in one day great job ,when I was their age we did 4 hogs in a day I guess one day soon it will be their turn to squeeze the trigger enjoying your content.
I completely support harvesting your meat that you have raised. Nothing better than eating what you have raised for your own family consumption. Delicious!
By the way my wife and I love liver and onions!
Very good vlog today and excellent teamwork for your family food.
reciprocating saw with stainless steel blades 20min turns into 20 seconds
I was about to say the same!
Yep Amazon has them for the sawzall.
Did that with a hog! Makes the job so much easier.
Some meat hooks would make handling those beef quarters a whole lot easier.
With a small I-beam crane to move it to and from the pallets maybe 200 bucks for everything
Rebecca, about Henry and wanting to wear the same shirt... buy 3 the same so you don't have to worry about the laundry :)
Love ❤Moms😂🥰
Duh???
Brilliant!
Ever think of not letting a toddler boss you around? You don't have to be mean, just a parent.
Justin,
You need a second hoist and hook near the first hoist. Hook the front quarter before cutting it away from the hind. It won’t hit the floor. Having a rail to roll one away might be nice or something like Ben Hollar made for scalding hogs might be helpful.
Love to see others learning also .. this is life on a functioning farm .. You have a very happy and healthy lifestyle. You are both fun loving and dedicated parents.. Happy Day ❤
So I've been following your channel ever since the great American farm tour series you did way back, and I keep coming back to watch some of those episodes, because they taught me so much. And now, seeing the recent material, seeing how the boys have grown into men... Makes me feel old. Thank you so much for these videos, they mean a lot to me
I thanks for this it keeps me connected to where food come from
What a wonderful team effort god bless your family
I can understand the thoughts of having 3 shirts the same or you could just teach him the reality of life "You don't as always get what you want".
It's great to see the whole family working together and doing such a great job.
It really is! I was hoping to get that message across without words and you caught it! Good job. Everyone did do so good.
I love Annie and her T-shirt❤
In my country beef liver is a delicacy! Dont grind it, thats a crime😂. Cut it in slices like steak. Fry it a little bit in olive oil, get it out because when its overcooked it gets hard and in the remaining juices add chopped onions and cook them down. In the end add plenty of fresh lemon juice and add the liver back for a second. Serve it with the onions and some rice to soak the juices. My gosh, my mouth is watering just thinking about it😂
I LOVE bovine tongue. I have it every Christmas. Would love to have it more often, but it's not easy to get a hold of it the rest of the year.
Same in my country. Only see it around Christmas time. I buy at least 2 large ones.
Get a maggot farm to put the scraps in, use the maggots to feed the chickens.
He did maggot farming videos a few years ago. Not sure why he stopped.
.410 “very powerful gun”
Umm, not really…haha
Compared to 22 mag
Powerful enough to do the job!
Too many bosses and a lot of second guessing going on need 1 designated leader even if it is not Dad but that means what leader says goes
Does the leader choose the leader?
So yes leaders do it all the time put a person in charge and then follow what the person they gave the power to that is running the project so yes
I have an eight week old, and we dont have a farm (only a cat, lol) but when my daughter is a little older we are getting chickens! :D
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To Justin- @21:37😅
"What Did You Say!?"
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Great job! Blessings!
Those saying too many chiefs and not enough Indians.....this is a learning process for all, it's good to have the kids ideas and input even if they are wrong. Everyone had great ideas, some worked some didn't that's what the whole process is about LEARNING and the main thing doing it together.
When we did our chickens we let our son try a slightly different way and he found it harder in the end but we let him try. One leader doesn't always mean efficient. Just remember your watching a family learn and grow, your not watching a MUST DO IT OUR WAY video. This is literally their life , we are just seeing a glimpse.
Great job everyone ❤
Nice work family! When we do our goats and pigs, the first one is slower as you have to work out the rusty skills, then you get on a roll.
AUSTIN YOUR JOB IS TO STOP THAT AWFUL MUSIC
I think it's so cool.
@@theJustinRhodesShow omg really oh dear
"This is a .410, a very powerful shotgun" 😂
Even if I don’t watch consistently, it’s crazy to see how big the kids get each time I tune in. Beautiful family and beautiful homestead y’all!
Welcome back!
I loved hearing Josiah and his friend tell you “I’ll do whatever you say”..good boys! Jonah is a Master..Justin you’ve done well teaching your children..they are amazing! Blessings❤
Liver may be a strong flavor, but done right it can be a spectacular meal. When I was growing up, I couldn’t even do the liver at first. But the liver and onions with a good gravy, really changed my mind.
Watching everyone dive in on the butchering, was quite impressive! The boys will be able to process the meat in record time if they keep this up. These are life skills that need to be passed on.
I don't ever remember not liking liver as a kid. Liver was a popular dish in the 1980s. lol.
If you put the liver in the freezer for about 15 mins before you grind it it will make it so much easier to grind! Love your family! ❤
Good to know!
Hard to watch, but it’s a necessary process and I’m sure those cows had a better life than any factory farm. I learned a few things which is good because one day we want to have cattle for meat. But for now we just have our dairy goats and we get meat from neighbors.
An older friend of mine bought a dozen cows to eventually butcher, 8 years later he has a dozen pet cows. He couldn’t do it. Neither could I. But I love beef, and all meat
@@WilliamWBG such a relatable comment. I understand completely!
AUSTIN'S A BEAST!!!
My mom
Made tongue into slices and used for sandwich meat with mustard. She also pickled it into a corned beef. And then made it into hash
I can't believe the YT czars have allowed this to stay up. LOL Appreciate your teaching and willingness to share. I look forward to meeting you all one day!
GREAT family learning and working together.. One word on a helpful tool during butcher - Reciprocating Saw... Tongue is delicious but needs a several step preparation to include pealing off that outer layer and lots of seasoning.. 50 Years ago a lovely Mexican lady that was working for a friend made us cheek tacos and tongue tacos.. I've never forgotten it!.. I love the liver idea to add to other meals.. GREAT job Lily on the cooking! Looks delicious... Great harvest day family! Thank you for sharing.
Shout out to John for getting right in there I'm sure he does not have the time in as the boys do takes a special person to get right in there, good job John!
Good work everyone! Maybe next time just a little tip. Get you a cordless sawzaw and a 12” blade. So so so much faster quicker and easier than a hack saw.
Justin. look up danish leverpostej, its a liver paté great for bread as a spread. its even beater when heated, and with bacon on the side. it should help you in your meat diet.
Liver, kidneys and onions fried on bread is the best breakfast
My mom used to make beef hearts in a sour cream sauce. It was delicious.
Beef cheeks are so delicious when cooked slowly in a slow cooker, they come out so tender. They were also cheap before Covid and now they are so expensive, but I still love them.
This brings back memories of my father and I on a misty West australian morning butchering sheep in the shearing shed.
Oh my goodness, beef, tongue, tacos, and beef cheap tacos are the best! I’m glad you looked up how to cook beef tongue you have to pull that thick layer off after it has cooked for a while. I hope you enjoyed your tacos.
The 410 garden gun putting in the work.
Justin I know this isn’t about this video but can you give info on where you get chicken butchering equipment and how big you got because I am doing turkeys and chickens. We do beef too
Big props to John and Sam for their helping hands!
Gideon wearing his “dad plaid”. 😊
Justin you need to try stuffed heart its amazing stuff hugssss
Very impressive! You guys are living life the right way.
I love eating beef, but I just could not pull the trigger. If I was a farmer, I’d end up having a farm full of pets. 😆
Heat those toenails with a torch and the nail caps pop right off, we use the whole hoof in hispanic cooking!
Yeah, I would like to see how Hispanics butcher and cook the different parts of a cow. They make better use of the whole cow.
@@twc9000 Some of the men in our family come home and do the steer and pigs for us each year because my husband and I are in our 70's
Austin should check out Matt Carriker utube channel. Hes recovering an abandoned 400 acre resort off the Guadalupe river in texas. He is a wild game enthusiast, needs pastures recovery, needs meat, needs a permaculture grazer and grower to supply the resturants, resort store for campers, events and guests. Greg Judy supplies the grass finished cattle, sheep and goats. He has labor, equipment, land and over 5 million subs. Austins channel and Greg Judy channels would blow up. Sell the meat by hanging weight, vegtables ect. Also has living accomodations. Plenty of water and a bluff to move it to padlocks. Would be a great opportunity. Matt is to busy building and cleaning up the old buildings to think about pasture recovery and food yet. Greg Judy could rent the ground reasonable and lock down becoming a primary start up supplier. Using food trucks loosing food revenue.
Been down the Guadalupe on inner tubes quite a few times. Will have to check out the channel.
Matt Carriker, as in Demolition Ranch Matt Carriker?
Happy Days are here again...👀👀❤❤🙏🙏🌷🌷🌻🌻🌺🌺🏵🏵
Hey Justin. Ever try liver as fresh as the day the animal was killed? The glycogen doesn't break down into lactic acid (stress hormone), and is sweet and healthy. It will also avoid the manure-y flavor.
Definitely easier to cut steers then bulls, testosterone increases the strength of the individual muscle fibres makes the meat chewier too.
If you can find a way to hang the sides or quarters till rigor mortis sets in about (12-24 hours) you'll find the meat is tenderer then if it sits and is allowed to rigor without tension.
That's interesting, thanks.
Boom! That's what's up! Model American family right there 😊
Did you put cumin in the pot with the tongue?
You got to do that if you are wanting to use it for Mexican meals.
Justin, you are the best housewife ever! Good for you, Rebecca! 😆
Hey Justin! Check out the Filipino dish PINAPAITAN.
❤ beef CHEEKS, low and slow. Very tasty😋
We used to have tongue sandwiches in school. The meat was slow cooked. Cooled and then thinly sliced. Kinda like roast beef sandwiches. Or sliced ham.
Mom used to do tongue with onions in the pressure cooker & then we'd have it with horseradish & some green salad & peas ..
There are days that I wish I wasn't allergic to beef as some times I "crave" it so bad.... It's been nearly 40 yrs since the last time I tried to eat some with bad results.... 😢😢😢
Y’all should think about building a drain for all that blood. Not a big deal. Just a thought.Greetings from Naples !
This is how much more meat should be produced, one bad day and on farm slaughtering.
Ofc on an industrial level this will always be difficult to du but they could at least try to get closer to this ideal.
I love being in the older kid season. I have 4 the 2 older are 10 and 14 and it’s already such a difference.
PICKLING TONGUE: Ever have corned beef? you must try this in your kitchen, it's amazing!!
Justin, I hope you learn a taste for beef tongue. It's one of my favourite parts. It's highly nutritious, it's tender and juicy. You just have to get your head past where it comes from. I mean, if you can get past where eggs come from, surely you can manage tongue...?
Justin if you pickle the tongue like you would a corned silverside it is delicious.
thats pretty awesome
Jersey steer. Foul (not) four letter word on the farm. Their personalities are priceless.
You need a ca4dboard for the front quarter to fall on
Lengua aka tongue, after removing the outer layer, slice thin and pan fry crispy.
Sliced tongue sandwich with hot mustard. So good.
You eat thevtoung cold with mustard onion and lettuce in sandwiches. Its wonderful
Justin you can put your foot down. It's like a circus at times. Take lead and lead them...
Child labor 😂😂
Next time Justin try having one of the boys drive the skids with the blue containers right under your rear hinds, then you can drop them right in.
For the tacos chop onions 🧅 cilantro and make a salsa verde look up UA-cam how too make it delicious 🤤 good luck
You can slice that heart into 1/2-inch-thick slices and fry it with butter, garlic, salt and pepper. Heart is my favorite piece from any animal.
Just a reminder to be careful around that meat grinder. I know of at least two young boys who have lost one of their hands while helping the family make sausage.
Pickled cows tongue is delicious! Sliced thin with sour cream, finely minced onion and capers.
Smoked tongue is great. Also, don't need to grind the liver until after you saute it.
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Awful lean meat, not finished.
It’s a dairy breed it’s not going to retain too much weight.
Okay? Not everyone wants obese cows that suffer before they die
Family farm doesn't need more meat than them
They ain't selling it so it won't matter
well dun boy's you did well
Lots of arm chair quarterbacks in the comments. Not sure how I would do butchering a steer. Nice job all.
I use the exact same gun.
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Tacos de lengua!
Are you not going to age the meet in the frig?
Does this hurt the cow?
Not with a well-placed shot. I just watched the uncensored version on Abundance Plus and the steers went down immediately.
@173rd_Cowbell I meant it as a dumb sarcasm kinda comment lol. Lotta soft folk nowadays who couldn't put down a dying animal.
@@mortinakathelegend7272 I figured. No offense was meant. 😊
My favorite meal is fried cow tongue I e and potatoes
Armed with sprayers, you are in charge of monetization.
What if I wanted the beef head lol
It amazes me how folk in the west find even something like butchering a chicken a spectacle.
The more advanced a society gets, the more out of touch it gets with things that were a common occurrence.
I know, right. It's interesting my children don't see it in this light since they've grown up around it. It's totally normal to them. I think because people my age have been disconnected from it and are coming into in adulthood it's more emotional/dramatic.
@@theJustinRhodesShow even though I grew up in the city, the death part of rearing livestock was never lost to me because backyard chickens are common, and also having a goat or cow slaughtered for special occasion wasn't uncommon. However, my kids have never experienced such a thing because they are born and raised in Europe. So yes, it's our generation that's not making the connection.
Put the tongue in the smoker
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You can cook the entire head in a pot and then pull the meat off and chop it all up. I think 🤔 😂
I hope that Wasn't Jonah doing wheely on the bike 😮😮😮😮
Probably was.
so I remember telling a vegan on a UA-cam channel a year ago, "How your kids are pretty intelligent, and homeschooled, and they butcher their own food, and much more intelligent than most older adults, since they know where food comes from, but I wouldn't say they're smarter than kids in regular school", and they responded saying "There's nothing intelligent about taking someone's life against their will" so I responded back to them saying "Well tell that to Justin Rhodes here on UA-cam, not me, he's the one who butchers his own animals, i'm sure he'd like to have a conversation with you about it" lol, "some people" I guess just don't understand smh 🙄🤦♂
Tongue is an amazing meat. Lily if no one told you what it was you would never know.
Good video, it is a good thing that you are involving your young men in the process of producing good quality food for your family, three steers in one day great job ,when I was their age we did 4 hogs in a day I guess one day soon it will be their turn to squeeze the trigger enjoying your content.