My wife and I started buying a half beef every year about 20 years ago. Helped a LOT when our kids were younger. Cost WAY less than grocery store, mass produced beef AND it tastes SO much better!
Bought 1/4 last season and imma get 1/2 cow and whole hog this season (2025) . Very excited that will be plenty for me and my large dog. Can't wait. God bless.
I like the tongue, liver, heart, and kidneys too. Oxtail for oxtail soup too. You can simmer and peel the tongue, then treat it like a pot roast. It will be one of the best cuts of meat you've ever eaten.
Yep!! Exactly! That would be one HELL of a hit to lose all that to a power failure!! Where I live, if the wind gets up, the power is going! A storm, its guaranteed to go out. Can be out a few minutes to a few hours or longer, just depends. Luckily the longest I ever remember being out was 4 days. Back in the 90s when we had a big ice storm.
@@missys199 Our power was out for 10 days after Hurricane Sandy. We had to throw away all of our refrigerated items after the first 3 days. We kept packing the fridge and freezer with ice bags but when the ice melted we were unable to salvage what food was left over. After that happened, we never have more than a few weeks worth of food in the fridge.
@@rocker76m88 Sucks so BAD to lose food!! Especially as expensive as it is in today's world. I spent 2 months in the hospital around this time last year and during that time my refrigerator quit!! Not the freezer part thankfully, but the refrigerator. I lost everything. Due to basically living in a field and having issues with mice, I put everything in the fridge. All my dry foods. Lost ALL of it because it molded!! Nothing was safe. I cried. I'm not going to lie. I actually cried. I went hungry many many days!! Because I hadn't been able to work and had no money and now no food. Not a good situation.
@@missys199 I can relate with being upset about losing food. You spend your hard-earned money to buy food and having to throw it out is so aggravating. Here's to hoping we never have to do that again 🤞 All the best to you!
Well we don't eat vegetables anymore so it's just meat in our freezer. Thank God I don't have to deal with vegetables and potatoes. We eat a Lion diet meat and water period. At 72 I've Never felt better in my life.
After my unfortunate and severe reaction to a Taco Bell meal, I'm back on Carnivore now, for good. "Would you like a side of anaphylaxis with that taco?"
Wow, what an amazing video. I have been trying to come across one like this, being as I’m looking to start selling beef retail. Just out of a little meat shop, and local delivery. I love that you based your cow off of a 1,000 lb steer. My question is, when you say package, is that one cut per package? As in, 16 packages of ribeyes, = 16 ribeyes off this one cow? Thank you so much for a response. God bless you as well.
@@redriverliving so 52 chicken fry steaks off one cow, at 1,000 live weight? Wow. I also noticed that you kept the cuts simple. You have just the popular cuts, then the roast, and rest ground beef. Question.. all those other cuts, for example, seven steak, tri tip, flank, etc. Did you just grind it all in with the ground beef? If you did, how drastically did it improve the meat quality of the ground beef? I want to have a high quality tasting ground beef, becuase I’m going to have a lot of it to sell it looks like lol. So I’m basically wanting to avoid trying to figure out how to sell all those individual cuts, and keep it Ribeye, NY Strip, Fillet minion, Top Sirloin, and Sirloin. Then have the roast’s, brisket, and the rest ground beef.
@@TheFreelanceCowboy Yes, on our cut sheet we asked for meat that we usually would purchase from the store and had everything else ground up into ground beef. We eat a lot of ground beef and for its quality, it tastes delicious!
@@nevinkuser9892 12 dollars a pound is good if all you are looking at the prime cuts eg. the rib, and the loin. But 12 dollars a pound for shank,chuck, round, plate, brisket and ground beef to name a few is pretty high.
Good video! If I were to process an animal I would want very little hamburger and more roasts. Roasts are over $12 a pound. I can find hamburger for $5-$7 a pound. I would also want some beef bone for Pho broth and roasted bone marrow. I getting hungry...lol
This is real health food !! Humans have been eating meat for thousands of years why do you think we have millions of Arrowheads scattered all over everywhere? Our ancestors didnt take the time to make just to cut broccoli 😅😂😊 JS
It's all from a personal perspective. Things that we've done for "thousands of years" do not mean it's healthy or right. For example... for thousands of years there were tribes and groups of humans that had eaten raw meat before the discovery of fire, and then there were also groups of humans who consumed other humans (cannibalism). What has been done over and over by a large group of people does NOT equate to being healthy or right (e.g. eating organ meats, eating dogs, etc.). And yes, we did eat a lot of plant-based food like broccoli before the direction of eating meat. Look it up. Think harder and deeper, eh!
Thank you for watching. We shared everything that we received back in the video, we decided for our first experience we would get the cuts that we would normally eat.
@@redriverliving All ideas welcome then! Everything from sausage casings to tongue,. Because the focus got shifted to steaks, the richest meats, liver, heart and kidneys, tend to be forgotten about! Tripe, brains, sweetbreads, even haggis casings (I'm being euphemistic, of course!). The skull, stewed, makes fine stock.
When Biden put the squeeze on the petroleum industry, it drove the price of everything up that has anything to do with transportation grain hay cattle processing everything
Well Biden did scrap the keystone pipeline which would of made all of north America self sufficient on oil production so now we are buying oil through the middle east that probably comes from Russian they don't like us so we're buying at a high price per barrel so if the cost of oil goes up everything else behind it goes up if the fuel to transport a product goes up so does the product to off set the price increase and it tumbles down the line so I'd say it's pretty fair to say Biden definitely helped with increasing inflation not to mention funding 2 different wars that don't really involve us and borrowing money from our biggest rival China to throw money at different situations
Hey, why not try keeping them whole, happy & enjoying their beauty!! Why do humans have to Kill Every Single thing they get their frickin' hands on?? 🐮 💟 🐮
I would agree with you that they are beautiful animals! In our family, we eat beef though and are fortunate enough to be able to raise our own. By doing this we know exactly what it was fed and how it was treated. Thanks for watching!
My wife and I started buying a half beef every year about 20 years ago. Helped a LOT when our kids were younger. Cost WAY less than grocery store, mass produced beef AND it tastes SO much better!
Bought 1/4 last season and imma get 1/2 cow and whole hog this season (2025) . Very excited that will be plenty for me and my large dog. Can't wait. God bless.
@allancrawford8390 how do I find someone who sells locally?
@@jasielnikka Google search: local beef ranchers direct sell near me.
Especially if you have male teenagers and kids in sports or on a carb free diet 👍🏼
My husband and I bought our first cow this year, it’s been great, and worth it for us.
So glad to hear! We are very happy with what we got and are grateful for a full freezer! Thanks for watching!
I like the tongue, liver, heart, and kidneys too. Oxtail for oxtail soup too. You can simmer and peel the tongue, then treat it like a pot roast. It will be one of the best cuts of meat you've ever eaten.
Thanks for sharing! Appreciate you watching!
In my country, we eat everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING) from an animal that we butchered... except for the stuff that we can't eat like hoofs.
I would definitely have a backup generator for when the power goes out.
Yep!! Exactly! That would be one HELL of a hit to lose all that to a power failure!! Where I live, if the wind gets up, the power is going! A storm, its guaranteed to go out. Can be out a few minutes to a few hours or longer, just depends. Luckily the longest I ever remember being out was 4 days. Back in the 90s when we had a big ice storm.
@@missys199 Our power was out for 10 days after Hurricane Sandy. We had to throw away all of our refrigerated items after the first 3 days. We kept packing the fridge and freezer with ice bags but when the ice melted we were unable to salvage what food was left over. After that happened, we never have more than a few weeks worth of food in the fridge.
@@rocker76m88 Sucks so BAD to lose food!! Especially as expensive as it is in today's world. I spent 2 months in the hospital around this time last year and during that time my refrigerator quit!! Not the freezer part thankfully, but the refrigerator. I lost everything. Due to basically living in a field and having issues with mice, I put everything in the fridge. All my dry foods. Lost ALL of it because it molded!! Nothing was safe. I cried. I'm not going to lie. I actually cried. I went hungry many many days!! Because I hadn't been able to work and had no money and now no food. Not a good situation.
@@missys199 I can relate with being upset about losing food. You spend your hard-earned money to buy food and having to throw it out is so aggravating. Here's to hoping we never have to do that again 🤞 All the best to you!
@@rocker76m88 Agreed. The best to you as well
In Anadarko Oklahoma,We owed 5$ on our City Electric,they turned it off.We lost all our meat and new freezer.We were in Wyoming at the time!
Yikes. That's a nightmare. Makes me want to get off-grid at any cost. Do you guys get enough sunshine for that to be feasible?
Why would you owe only $5 and how many warning letters did they send to you? They usually cut after 90 days or more late.
Are there any vegetarians in Texas? Only kidding...I love ❤️ beef
Only in the big cities
How much did it weigh before it was cut?
Well we don't eat vegetables anymore so it's just meat in our freezer. Thank God I don't have to deal with vegetables and potatoes. We eat a Lion diet meat and water period. At 72 I've Never felt better in my life.
After my unfortunate and severe reaction to a Taco Bell meal, I'm back on Carnivore now, for good. "Would you like a side of anaphylaxis with that taco?"
Wow, what an amazing video. I have been trying to come across one like this, being as I’m looking to start selling beef retail. Just out of a little meat shop, and local delivery.
I love that you based your cow off of a 1,000 lb steer. My question is, when you say package, is that one cut per package? As in, 16 packages of ribeyes, = 16 ribeyes off this one cow? Thank you so much for a response. God bless you as well.
Thank you for your feedback and for watching. All the steaks are two per package, for example, 16 ribeye packages = 32 ribeyes.
@@redriverliving so 52 chicken fry steaks off one cow, at 1,000 live weight? Wow.
I also noticed that you kept the cuts simple. You have just the popular cuts, then the roast, and rest ground beef.
Question.. all those other cuts, for example, seven steak, tri tip, flank, etc. Did you just grind it all in with the ground beef?
If you did, how drastically did it improve the meat quality of the ground beef?
I want to have a high quality tasting ground beef, becuase I’m going to have a lot of it to sell it looks like lol.
So I’m basically wanting to avoid trying to figure out how to sell all those individual cuts, and keep it Ribeye, NY Strip, Fillet minion, Top Sirloin, and Sirloin. Then have the roast’s, brisket, and the rest ground beef.
@@TheFreelanceCowboy Yes, on our cut sheet we asked for meat that we usually would purchase from the store and had everything else ground up into ground beef. We eat a lot of ground beef and for its quality, it tastes delicious!
@@redriverlivingthanks for dropping knowledge
Can you customise the thickness of the cuts? Sirloin steak looks a bit on the thin side.
Butcher gives you a cut sheet, you have a few options.
What would your price per pound be if you sold a full Steer?
$2 per lbs. processing plus ~$3,500/330 = about $12 a pound. Not bad for super high quality beef.
@@nevinkuser9892 12 dollars a pound is good if all you are looking at the prime cuts eg. the rib, and the loin. But 12 dollars a pound for shank,chuck, round, plate, brisket and ground beef to name a few is pretty high.
Great video.. how is business going bro?
Good video! If I were to process an animal I would want very little hamburger and more roasts. Roasts are over $12 a pound. I can find hamburger for $5-$7 a pound. I would also want some beef bone for Pho broth and roasted bone marrow. I getting hungry...lol
How big is that chest freezer
It’s a Frigidaire 24.8
How much is your electric bill 4.freezer?
Nothing crazy, we have two upright freezers! When we got the second we didn’t notice much difference in our bill. Thanks for watching!
Freezer’s use a lot less power than a kitchen fridge.
This is real health food !! Humans have been eating meat for thousands of years why do you think we have millions of Arrowheads scattered all over everywhere? Our ancestors didnt take the time to make just to cut broccoli 😅😂😊 JS
It's all from a personal perspective. Things that we've done for "thousands of years" do not mean it's healthy or right. For example... for thousands of years there were tribes and groups of humans that had eaten raw meat before the discovery of fire, and then there were also groups of humans who consumed other humans (cannibalism). What has been done over and over by a large group of people does NOT equate to being healthy or right (e.g. eating organ meats, eating dogs, etc.). And yes, we did eat a lot of plant-based food like broccoli before the direction of eating meat. Look it up. Think harder and deeper, eh!
Says cost in the description then says at the end you're not going to say how much the beef actually cost. DECEPTIVE
Not deceptive at all, the description says Butcher Cost and we share that in the video. Thanks for watching!
why would you loose stuff on the bottom????
What's the house panther's name?
🐈⬛ I believe that was Millie! We have a few running around. Thanks for watching!
Where is the tail???
People should buy a generator in case their power go's out so you won't loose all your meat and foods
This is a great idea! We are in need of a generator, do you recommend one in particular?
200# of hamburger???… Boy I’d be pissed!!! 😡…
These cuts were exactly what we ask for on our cut sheet. We are a family that eats a lot of ground hamburger meat.
What happens when the power goes out and the wars are getting worse for us all 😢😢
Salt, drying , etc
And the offal?
Thank you for watching. We shared everything that we received back in the video, we decided for our first experience we would get the cuts that we would normally eat.
@@redriverliving All ideas welcome then! Everything from sausage casings to tongue,. Because the focus got shifted to steaks, the richest meats, liver, heart and kidneys, tend to be forgotten about! Tripe, brains, sweetbreads, even haggis casings (I'm being euphemistic, of course!). The skull, stewed, makes fine stock.
@@redriverliving The latest breakthrough is the use of ultrasonic tenderising.
For me a steak weighs a half pound, so thats a dollar a steak!
Woild rather buy from a small farm. Especially considering how much damage is being done by big beef companies
Who the butcher
Bayco Meat Processing in Seymour TX.
It cost a hole lot less before Biden became President.
Exactly
This was our first time getting a cow butchered, so we wouldn't know! Thank you for watching!
“It cost a hole lot less”
Like we'll over $1000 here in Colorado it costs over $3500 I remember 3 years ago it cost $1700 boneless $2100 with bones.
Whole
This seems expensive for what you getting where is the offal meat head and skin
This was our first experience, and we ordered the cuts of meat that we usually eat. In the future, we may expand our horizons! Thanks for watching!
Im from Oklahoma! Wyoming Beef has no flavor!! 😢
For all the people blaming Biden for the increase in price, thats like blaming Elon for the drop in gas prices. No connection whatsoever 😂😂
When Biden put the squeeze on the petroleum industry, it drove the price of everything up that has anything to do with transportation grain hay cattle processing everything
Well Biden did scrap the keystone pipeline which would of made all of north America self sufficient on oil production so now we are buying oil through the middle east that probably comes from Russian they don't like us so we're buying at a high price per barrel so if the cost of oil goes up everything else behind it goes up if the fuel to transport a product goes up so does the product to off set the price increase and it tumbles down the line so I'd say it's pretty fair to say Biden definitely helped with increasing inflation not to mention funding 2 different wars that don't really involve us and borrowing money from our biggest rival China to throw money at different situations
Hey, why not try keeping them whole, happy & enjoying their beauty!! Why do humans have to Kill Every Single thing they get their frickin' hands on?? 🐮 💟 🐮
Mmmh steak!
I would agree with you that they are beautiful animals! In our family, we eat beef though and are fortunate enough to be able to raise our own. By doing this we know exactly what it was fed and how it was treated. Thanks for watching!
If God didn't intend us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
Read your bible.
@@donb6474 Yeah, the best fictional novel of all time?