My Dad was a large animal veterinarian. We raised our own steers and processed it ourselves twice a year. We had a family of six. He considered this our education. We also raised dairy calves to pay for our college. I am 71 years old and I am very glad to have this skill set!

Shame on KZfaq for demonetizing you for teaching people how to provide for themselves. I'm so happy you did this and shared it.

Randy seems like he is enjoying this so much. He is smiling and energetic in every task he help you with.

Your beef and pig videos are the best I've seen. Clear, engaging, concise, enough information to be interesting but not so much to be boring, and not all over the place. It's a shame your best work for you demonitized

If all those steaks were at our home, they'd be gone in a hot minute. I know you guys are so proud to have not only the skills, but also the ability to reap the rewards. Let me know when you pull out those tomahawk steaks and I'll bring desert!

You KNOW EXACTLY what the cow was fed! You KNOW NO hormones or steroids were use! ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT!

Amazing. Wish I were 40 years younger to do this, but will just have to stay in touch with local farmers. I still garden and can. Good for you and your family.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, part two wrapped it all up. I have much respect and admiration for you family and sure would love to try one of those burgers.

What an amazing feeling it must be when you can replenish your freezer and pantry with home grown groceries. 🗣️ WHAT A BEAUTIFUL FEELING!!

I'm so impressed. You are able to be super picky and extra careful to remove bones and stretchy fat and know your grind etcetera. Just excellent. Your so set up with organic meat.

This brought back many memories. I did this with my grandparents many years ago. Y’all did an awesome job. I’ve been binge watching your videos. Thanks for sharing.

We have processed deer many times, but a steer, never! It IS a family project that teaches many skills. Memories and food both being made at the same time...priceless! 😍

My husband and I eat a half of beef about every year and a half. We also give away extra burger and enjoy meals with family and friends.🐮💙

PS those rectangular boxes so often seen in restaurants by people bussing tables was genius! great size to lug around.

I was Penelope’s age and running the grinder in my great uncles butcher shop. That was a LONG time ago. Congrats on a freezer full of beef!🎉

If it’s just going to be your family eating it, I think it will last you 16 months to go through all the beef. Because you will go through the ground beef faster than the other cuts. But Lorraine really like to make soups and stews and roast and things as well. It might last a month or two less but I am thinking a family of three sixteen months. I am sure you blessed Randy with some of the need for helping you all with all the processing.

I worked in a butcher shop so I was able to practice breaking down pork, beef, chicken. I enjoyed the process. I can appreciate the amount of work it takes.

If you were to take to a Butcher, you would end up with far less. Loved watching your videos on this process. And loved that the whole family participated.

It was so worth it! You were able to hang it longer, keep everything you wanted with no waste, you didn’t have to pay someone else to do it, AND you developed a new skill. Way to go guys!

Liver absolutely changes the flavor of the ground beef. Great family tradition. Get some tools like bone saw to speed up the process. Do a lot of the work on the band saw before knife work begins. In 5 years it will be a 1 day job.

You’re making memories and teaching a skill to others and your daughter. I know girls her age that won’t even touch raw meat, or even want to spend time with there parents. Enjoy every minute. You’re such a good family.

Such a process. So proud of you guys ❤❤❤

I think it’s great that you guys processed it yourselves! What an awesome skill to have! Great job and great video!! Thanks for sharing! ❤

I don't eat a lot of meat, but I really respect seeing it processed in this way. I think we have become so disconnected from our food. Thank you for sharing this.

Wow, what an accomplishment!! Everyone worked so hard and had a good attitude. A blessing to have your in-laws there. Memories made ❤

After watching your videos, I don't regret going to the processor one bit.

I've always wonder if your get the same animal you took to market back. In 1969 my stepfather took our 4 pigs in and it seemed like it wasn't that much back. Mom wasn't happy with the amount. You know your out come and from birth to processing. Quality, cleanest.,and amount. Cost$$$ would be out of this world at these prices now. Also a family affair. Great work guys. Happy new year 2023

Beef bones are so expensive in the store… you are so lucky to have them to make bone broth…

All that teamwork, I think y'all did amazing! I'd be the one that would do the same thing, if in your shoes. What a great way to save even more money. I'm so proud of you guys! :)

The trick when making your own ground beef is to fry up some to see if you need to add more fat or less.

I would say that beef should last your family almost a year. It was great you had Lorraine's parents to help.

Liver is also good for fishing. Go to the dollar tree and buy nylon stocking. Tie the liver in nylon bite size. Put in freezer . When ready for fishing put in refrigerator the day before.

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Tongue and heart are the of the really choice cuts. Please don’t grind them up or feed them to your cats and dogs! Tongue: 35 mins in the instant pot with an onion and a couple of bay leaves. Remove then peel the tongue and then braise using the brith from the IP. 300 for 90 mins. Remove the tongue and slice into nice coins. It’s beyond delicious. Don’t over flavour the braiding liquid. Just onion garlic and celery. Heart is wonderful stuffed and slow roasted. Leave so of the fat on the outside. It is just delicious after being slow roasted.

A 1/2 lasts our family of 3 adults 9-12 months.

My brother always threw the ribs and upper necks away from the deer. I took them and cut the ribs in half...put that in the pressure cooker for 20 minutes...smoked it in the smokehouse for 4 hours...then bar-b-qued it! He hasn't thrown ANYTHING away since!

It is worth doing yourself. You know it is your beef and it is clean!

We process our own beef. We used to take it to the locker plant and had them kill and process. Now there is at least a year on a wait list not to mention the last time we had a beef processed, they charged us $500.00 just for the processing and some of the cuts were not the way we had asked them to do it. We now do it all ourselves so we get the cuts the way we want them. It takes us three days. We have three grown kids with families of their own and they hep with the processing. One steer will feed all of us for about six months. We also do hogs and chickens on our own. We like it that way. 😃

You'll get faster every time you do it and it is a lovely skill to know. My dad was a butcher as an occupation and we did our own and it's something that I still love to do.

It should last you for 18 to 24 months with chicken and pork that you have- That's why vacuuming is a better solution, makes it last longer. If you go too slowly through it, you might consider canning some of it.

It was amazing to see you guys process your own beef. It seemed that the amount grew as you went on. Ha. It was a lot of work, but so worth it. You KNOW what went into the meat you eat. So proud of you all. Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎆🎇🎈 Oh, do you still have your dog, Charlie??

Shows how disconnected ppl still are about food. Thank you for continuing to share even when you are not getting paid for teaching these skills. We appreciate you.

Multi generation working together for a goal that's HOMESTEADING

Oxtail is great. It's uber expensive now compared how it used to be. Try smothered Oxtail!

Hey mate I am loving your content, thanks for sharing great to see family working together 🥩🥩

9 months with the chicken …Great job!!!

After you make the bone broth, you still have the bones left...... You can throw them in a fire which will make them extra brittle... Then can break them apart and basically make a powder... This is called "bone meal" is fantastic for the garden!!

We appreciated the uncensored version on abundance plus. Highly recommend watching it. Very informative. Thanks for what you teach us.

I have heard stories of people not getting or getting more than what they sent to the processor, this way you are guaranteed to get what you raised.

We processed 9 hogs in 2 days that were so big they wouldn't fit in the scalding box but never process beef. It for sure was a job and experience for us but so worth it in the end.

We are a family of three as well. We go through the steaks really fast, within a couple months. But the ground and roasts will last us almost a year for about 300 lbs of freezer meat. Thank you for the videos, always great content.

I hope your videos encourage and teach more people how to be self-sufficient. Your videos are put together in a way it's easy to learn. Shame on KZfaq for not allowing you to show the whole process.

Always worth butchering all animals yourself. At 16 my stepfather put me through his "college" lol. He was an old farmer. Since then never taken anything to a processor. Love watching you guys go through it and just jump in and learn. You guys did awesome.

We have 4 people in our family, and we purchased 1/2 of a cow in Spring of 2022. We expect it to last us all through 2023, so about 18 months. You all did such a phenomenal job!!!

It’s so much work but so worth it! You’ll get quicker and better the more you do it. Good job!

I think for the other cow you should take it to the processor just to show the difference in return from doing it yourself vs taking it somewhere. Would also maybe help identify any cuts you missed or maybe ones they missed that your family enjoys. Would be really cool to see the results.

Processing the steer yourself not only saves money but you get a lot more usable product. Even if we take the chickens in to be processed we don't get the feet or the organs, just the body and the necks. That's how it is here where we are. If you don't know how to tan a hide I'm sure you could find some one that does.

I totally agree about the educational quality of doing this sort of thing. Our neighbors with their cattle ranch down the road invited me over this week to help slaughter and process two of their cows. I'll be going back in about two weeks to learn to butcher them, too. Great experience, and fascinating to get hands on with!

I’m really impressed working together all your hard work rewards ❤

This has been truly epic to see! What a dedicated process. I love that you did it all!! Good eats for sure and such a wonderful way to honor God's creatures.

Gosh, what an impressive job all of you did!! 👏

When I was at home, we put up half a beef a year. There was 4 of us at home, and my sister was there alternate weekends and half the summer. We also had a lot of company. We ate rabbit about three times a week too.

I am so glad you only did the one beef.This is a lot of work.

Wowza! You all really nocked this out of the park! Your tummies are going to be happy-happy-happy!!!! Tradition for sure. It’s a lot of money to use the processor. When I was in FFA 18 months was the average age before processing. Like Loraine stated, it’s a perfect size for your family. It will take your family 278 days to eat all the beef. I suggest that the other steer be processed before the end of spring or early next fall. In the “no flies” season and when your garden isn’t in full swing. 😊

14:30 she makes a great point about this being a good skill for the family, it's a tough tradition to try and keep up with though. Perhaps the meat will last you longer than you expected though, and next year it won't be necessary to break down something as large as a cow, it would probably be pretty easy for y'all to break down a feeder pig together. LOVE Y'ALL'S CONTENT!!❤️

Your next big investment sold be a meat band saw. It will save you at least a day on a steer. Also saves lots of time for pigs too.

If you are going to do it on regular basis it might be useful to buy a Meat Master Electric band saw to cut up the meat. My dad had one and use to do a cow about 3 times a year and it was worth it.

Brought back so many wonderful memories. THANK YOU!!!

This was very rewarding for you all, but also for me watching. There is a lot of skills involved , including the assembly line part of it.. I truly appreciate the process ( even maybe being a better cook from knowing what each cut of meat can be used for.) Thank you guy's🤗 I'm also not happy with the demonotizeing your videos😕 see ya next time 👋🤗❤👍happy New Year

dear knife victims buy a whetstone. a honing rod is for straightening. an automatic slotted sharpener is for dulling/chipping. a whetstone is immediate and will keep the blade from slipping when used. buy a whetstone. I recommend KING 4k/6k to start

You should invest in a chamber vacuum sealer. We just bought a vac master that can do 4 bags at a time in under 20 seconds. We bought one from MEAT and hated it. It can only do one bag at a time and the chamber is not big enough to vacuum seal chickens. We get our bags from Ultra Source. You raise all your own meat so it would pay for itself in no time. We have a butcher shop so it has already paid for itself.

It will go faster the more times you do it. My mom, dad(disabled) aunt and uncle butchered a beef and a pig together. They had the wood stove going to boil the liver, hearts and such as they make sausage to put in the smoke house. All pork ham and bacon was hung in the smoke house so there was not as much work doing the pig but you know how much work is in doing the beef. The steaks were made into roast to make it go further. We never ate hamburgers pork chops or steak when growing up. But we did have delicious sausage in the smoke house. Three kinds. Liver, blood and one other kind which was the only one i would eat. You did good for the first time.

Good job! We processed moose many times from kill to freezer. It gets easier as you get the routine,and find ways that work better. Worth it..happy for you all.

If yall create different sausages with a large portion of the pig grinds you can diversify the use of that meat.

So happy you are enjoying the big brother!

I think it is so great that you guys process your own animals.. In a couple years you guys will be able to add pig and beef butchering classes to your repertoire. A skill many in this day do not have. My family grew and butchered our first pig ever this year. It is a ton of work but we'll worth it in New skill and saves alot of$

HooRay! You did it! Family is a blessing!

Keep us apprised of what you do with the tail pieces.

I know you are probably aware of this but raise Dexter Cattle, they are about 1/2 the size of Angus, etc. They are also docile and easy to care for.

As a family of 4, a whole 1000# beef would last us a year. We would get around 400-450# of meat. Of course, we had chicken and pork as well. My husband's family always processed their own meat (chickens, hogs, steers/deer) but we chose to have them sent to processor. Just made sense from time/money standpoint.

Great video! I wood have liked to have been there to help! If you eat 5lbs a week, it should last about a year. Tradition for family, for sure!🐔🐖🐂

Run some cold fat through the grinder when you start and it will help let the meat slide through easier. Use bread when you are done and it will clean it some to make cleaning easier.

I appreciate you showing this for ANYBODY to see. Maybe it will help people to understand where their food comes from. I sure hope you share a lot of that meat with Loraine’s parents. Thank you.

You did an amazing job. I'm sure you're planning to share with Lorraine's parents.

With my dad being a butcher alittle advise for the burger. Get a scale and make a ball of burger like a softball and weigh it. It gives you a rough idea to go off of and just check yourself every dozen or so. It will save you alot of time. It's doesnt have to be exactly 1.00 lbs

Next purchase needs to be a home meat band saw.

Thank you so much for posting. We are harvesting this weekend, and we do have help but it is nice to know what to expect for home processing. I am watching the whole series for this harvest.

Femur bones are great if you enjoy the melted marrow

I write the content on the end of the bag. When I open it I cut that portion off anyway and I can reuse the bags.

We still use my granfather's electric meat saw he bought when he was still a jong homesteader. Buy once and generations will use it...

I love your videos! I'm so happy I came across this channel. It's exactly what I need to motivate me daily to get to the point I can homestead with my family!

How wonderful to raise and process your own beef. Cabela's has the best vacuum seal bags. Thicker and good channels to remove air better and cost less than FS. I get the 1 lb pints and quarts already cut. Saves a lot of time too. Also, I recently made liverwurst , recipe from The Spruce Eats and it's very good. It called for pork liver but I used beef. I enjoy your channel much.

We had our beef processed, at a processor, and had the option to watched, but I didn’t think I could handle it, but now watching you do it I think next time I’ll watch and learn the process. Thanks for this video ! 🐄🐮♥️

Wow! Lots of work, but the rewards are awesome! Congratulations!

Another thing I want to note left you a message in the freeze dry egg video 2 months ago video. if you could look at that but, your ice box video when you installed at the farm Justin's homestead with the bot cooler or something I like that opened up my mind to other possible things with that unit and style. Easy, affordable and DIY all-in-one perfect. I was watching you when you first got there thats how long I have been looking for a price of land to try out for a couple of years to see how well ke it and to build affordable housing/ homestead places for others in need

Great job guys, when you grinding your meat add a little bit of onion on it and you make it taste better and saving some time before cooking 👍🏻

Our main meat is beef and chicken. I roughly figure 4 lbs of beef and 4 # of chicken for my self and husband per week. its rough, because sometimes the adult kids or company comes over. WE also take beef to the lakes to cook over the camp fire. Its amazing that way.

Great job processing everything yourself. I think I’m going to keep taking mine to the butcher after watching your videos!

It was totally worth it the education yall all got out of it is priceless the butcher shops may not be thear one day your living off the land. God bless

We had a half cow processed. We are a family of 4 with 2 teenage boys it lasted us about a year.