Black Friday Blues (pic)

[topside1]

"I'm heading to town tomorrow and shopping for a big screen is not on the list, I've got the cattle trailer blues."
He's 24 months old and should hang heavy....all for now. Topside

[CrabbyChicken]

Thank you for sharing pics!!!! Good luck!

[topside1]

Just got home, 1050# live weight....I'm happy, he's not....Topside

[topside1]

26 cent a pound to process, 24$ kill fee...Topside

[kycrawler]

Cheap butcher compered to here $ 45 kill fee and .54 a lb hanging weight good looking jersey steer

[Wanda]

Yes that is a very low processing charge. In my state (Il.) the disposal fee to the small lockers drives the cost. Rendering companies have no competition to hold down the price,since there is not enough business to support more than one.

[simi-steading]

Nice lookin' bovine... Sure wish I had me one like that..

Wow.. $24 to shoot a cow huh? I'm looking at this little 50 count box of .22's and thinking I'm sitting on a fortune since I got a few bricks of them....

We just butchered a bull last month... Yep, it's a lotta work, but I don't get paying someone so much to have it done.. Get a few friends, pass some of the meat to them, or let them buy into it before they help, and it's so much cheaper...

[Wanda]

If you have ever butchered your own beef and had to dispose of the gut pile, $50 does not sound nearly as bad. When you bleed and gut a beef you need a very good area to do it in.

[agmantoo]

When the kill fee and the process charges are calculated there is a hidden benefit to the processor that is seldom referenced. There is a gain to the processor that goes unrecognized. That gain comes from the selling of parts that typically are unsold in this country. Tongue on the European market brings more than $15 per pound. The hide will bring more than $75 to the leather market. Pancreas and other organ meats are marketed in the Far East. The medical market will render parts for their industry. In total by-products bring more than $140 from a slaughtered bovine.

[myheaven]

up here its 200 to have a bovine shot, gutted, and quarteed. then 42 cents hang to cut up.

[Wanda]

Originally Posted by agmantoo

When the kill fee and the process charges are calculated there is a hidden benefit to the processor that is seldom referenced. There is a gain to the processor that goes unrecognized. That gain comes from the selling of parts that typically are unsold in this country. Tongue on the European market brings more than $15 per pound. The hide will bring more than $75 to the leather market. Pancreas and other organ meats are marketed in the Far East. The medical market will render parts for their industry. In total by-products bring more than $140 from a slaughtered bovine.

The large kill plants have a market for the odd parts in quantity. I would guess there is not much chance of the local butcher marketing a few pancreas a week to the Far East.

[ne prairiemama]

That's awesome topside and he was pretty! Bet he'll be tasty too!

[po boy]

Originally Posted by Wanda

If you have ever butchered your own beef and had to dispose of the gut pile, $50 does not sound nearly as bad. When you bleed and gut a beef you need a very good area to do it in.

We have buzzards for that.

[simi-steading]

Originally Posted by Wanda

If you have ever butchered your own beef and had to dispose of the gut pile, $50 does not sound nearly as bad. When you bleed and gut a beef you need a very good area to do it in.

So true.. we were lucky and had a back hoe.. I dug the hole in about 15 minutes.. .

[Gabriel]

With the title of "Black Friday..." I thought I'd see an Angus!

[kycrawler]

id rather have that jersey than a feedlot angus I still dont think $300 to get that guy back in white paper packages frozen is a bad deal at all

[Wanda]

We have cut up several after they were slaughtered and aged at the locker. We have our own walk in cooler and the saw, grinder,ect. but never did get a walk in freezer. That is one thing that gets overlooked sometimes, is freezing time. If you stack a lot of room temp. meat in your freezer, it can take a long time to get the center of the stack down to zero.

[Jlynnp]

Originally Posted by topside1

26 cent a pound to process, 24$ kill fee...Topside

---We are in Sparta - where did you take yours to be processed? We delivered our Hereford to Cope's on Friday. She was a bit smaller than yours only 855.

[topside1]

H and R in Crossville....Been using them for 10 years now. Great outfit.

[wannabfishin]

the going price in Maine is around $65 to slaughter and $.65 a pound to hang, cut, wrap and freeze.