If someone comes up with some numbers. I’m very well in for 1/4-1/2.
Also in for 1/4 to 1/2. Just got a freezer.
I have cows across the street from me… I watch them grow up, I watch them go in my belly.
IIRC Alabama Meat Market on 77 in (Sometimes called IGA) will do all the butchering/packaging for you if you don’t want to do it yourself.
if you jerks wanted to …
Ford brothers in West Valley -butcher place … find out if they pick up with in 5 miles and how much it cost
I have the land and barn … the fence is 80% up … I removed some to ass hat … but it can be fixed … and you guys can rent/buy into doing this … im really not kidding … its to late to start now … you need to get them in march but we can work things out for next year
how much does a cow usually yield in meat? What is the cost for a 1/4, 1/2 and full? also interested in pigs too
My family sells beef cows,
on a side not i always get a laugh out of the organic BS . Its all a scam to over charge.
^^ not all of it. If you truly believe that it is you are very misinformed and should pay better attention to what the family is doing.
I know what they are doing, I grew up on a farm. I still say the whole organic thing is all a scam from ppl to make money. People see the word organic and will pay more money due to it being claimed organic.
Post some specs, or PM me some rough prices, I’d very much like to purchase a 1/4-1/2 in the next few weeks depending on availability. (would wait longer or move sooner if needed)
Oh im sure they scam the heck out of the word organic just to make money. That’s why you buy from the little guys with morals that actually deliver what they promise. Pm me as well.
Anybody that is still interested in doing this there is a good size meat freezer chest at Orville’s on Bailey near Sheridan and Eggert for $116 Scratch and dent.
I believe it’s about $3.50 a pound when buying that much.
Wish I had a freezer.
My bro just bought a cow. About 800lbs of meat, $1000.
Read above post. #31. I was there again today and its still there
wow. how many chest freezers does it take to store 800lbs of beef?
He has a 14 cu.ft. chest freezer and a stand up freezer but i’m not sure how big that is. I wanna say the meat will last 12-13 months since its vacuum packed. He has 5 kids so I imagine it will last them 9 months based on the half a cow he got last year.
100% incorrect. Grass fed beef is one of the healthiest foods a human can eat for a variety of reasons. Red meat is good for you. Grain fed meat (what you get in the grocery store) is bad for you (high omega-6 content drives systemic inflammation which lays the foundation of almost all western diseases) and grain fed feed lot antibiotic treated meat is just awful.
As for taste, well, it tastes a bit game-y sometimes which a lot of people like but most people are used to really bland corn fed beef so YMMV.
Ordering a half or whole cow from a local grass fed organic type farm is extremely common. Here are a couple of places:
(My in-laws eat nothing but grass fed/pastured meat and I think they get most of it from Freeman Homestead in Stockton near Fredonia. They’re listed in eat wild.)
I’ve been to this farm and bought meat from them. Good shit.
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Oh, and +1 to Organic not really meaning much other than the producer could afford to buy the certification.
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I’m pretty sure both Beam’n Farms and Freeman will deliver. Beam’n has delivered to my in-law’s house. Freeman I think has a drop off/pick up point in West Seneca they will meet people at.
For those that do not want to commit to 800 lbs of meat we found a farm that offers 50lb packages of beef & chicken
They delivered right to our door in North Buffalo. It barely made a dent in my 7.0 cft freezer I bought for storing the meat. Everything came butchered & individually wrapped.
That place looks legit. $6/pound for a 50 pound box isn’t too shabby either.
Bear in mind that there are three weights:
-Live weight
-Hanging weight aka skinned and gutted but not cut up into pieces, this is the weight you pay for when you buy a fraction of or a whole steer
-Butchered weight aka the box of meat you get, usually around 1/3 less than the hanging weight
So if you buy a 150 pound (hanging weight) quarter of a steer at $3.50/lb it’ll cost you $525 and you’ll get about 100 pounds of meat on your doorstep. So your $3.50/lb works out to $5.25/lb in normal grocery store terms.
How much is delivery?