Pricing my longhorn steer

Couple people have suggested a roping career for this steer. But at 26 months old, that ship has sailed. You gotta train them for roping and he's likley too old and too big to do it safely or successfully.

I agree that the salebarn would be a losing proposition, you'd give him away there. Best bet is eat him yourself or advertise as grass fed beef and sell by the pound. See if you can find any other ads for grass fed beef in your area and price yours similarly. Craigslist, bulletin board at the feed store, local paper, etc. to advertise.

In the meantime, price him as pasture ornament or such on craiglist, kijiji, hoobly, oodle - lol - and you never know. . .might sell him before you need to butcher.

Either find a buyer or two for sides of beef, or put him in your own freezer.

If you end up having him processed (either for a beef buyer or two, or for yourself), ask the processor to cut off the horns for you. Clean out the inner core (usually just leave them set outside but protected from the weather for a little while, maybe a month or so?) and then you can either make something of them yourself if you are artistically inclined....or list them on eBay, Craigslist, or the like. Loads of people out there that do those historical reenactment groups or make things out of various cattle horns.

We get $3.75/lb hanging weight, we pay processor fees, on our grass-fed Highlands. Sometimes you have to do some advertising around, health food stores & such, but there are people that are out there looking for something better than the grocery store meats.

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