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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

It sounds like you have a good set-up; if you were closer and in warm 
weather, I might volunteer mine and my wife's services for a couple of weeks, 
just for the experience.  Too far, and way too cold, though.........

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--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] You think they won't 
> taxyourhomestead...............
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 8:15 AM
> I run an ad, and I have a lot of repeat customers. I hire a
> livestock 
> 'hauler' to take them to the butcher. I'm
> required to have the whole process 
> done by a USDA butcher if I want to sell individual cuts of
> meat. My butcher 
> does a great job; he  wanted to get into selling
> pasture-raised beef 
> himself, so he learned about hanging times and temperatures
> on my meat 
> (pasture-raised doesn't have as much fat, so is best
> hung at a slightly 
> higher temperature for 2 weeks).
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] You think they won't 
> taxyourhomestead...............
> 
> 
> > Dom you run an ad in the paper to sell the quarters,
> halves, etc or is it 
> > just word of mouth?  Does the butcher have the
> trailer, etc. to pick them 
> > up to take to be slaughtered and butchered and to you
> have to rent 
> > trailer, etc?  Large animals require some kind of
> equipment?
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > --- On Fri, 12/5/08, Lynn Wigglesworth
> <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Lynn Wigglesworth
> <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Homestead] You think they won't 
> >> taxyourhomestead...............
> >> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >> Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 7:55 AM
> >> > When you have nine or so (you've told me
> how you
> >> get the steer calves from
> >> > dairy farms), do they all become ready for
> butchering
> >> about the same time.
> >> > Do you sell them through a 'sale pen'
> >> (livestock auction) , OR, do you
> >> > sale them live and have them delivered live
> to the
> >> butcher, you gives the
> >> > meat to >the customer?  I'm conffused
> about the
> >> logistics
> >> >
> >> I sell directly to customers as halves, quarters,
> and
> >> individual cuts. I try
> >> to wait until I have at least a quarter cow sold
> before I
> >> have one
> >> butchered, because I don't have a lot of
> freezer space
> >> (one cow takes 2
> >> full-sized freezers). Any that isn't sold as
> >> halves/quarters I sell through
> >> my farm stand as individual cuts.
> >>
> >>  I can't get the high prices here that some
> people can
> >> for pasture-raised
> >> meat, but even at supermarket prices, there's
> a lot of
> >> profit in
> >> pasture-raised. I have about $100 in hay cost (if
> I've
> >> held them over the
> >> winter) plus about $300 for hauling/butchering per
> cow...if
> >> I sell it in
> >> individual cuts, I can gross over $1200, less if I
> sell
> >> bulk. I haven't been
> >> to a livestock auction in years, but 1,000 pound
> beef cows
> >> used to go for
> >> $250-300.
> >>
> >> So far I can only do 2 or 3 per year, but as I
> increase the
> >> number of cattle
> >> and customers, I can do more (up to maybe 15-20 if
> my
> >> business ever grows
> >> that much). I don't do steers; I do bulls...I
> think
> >> they stay leaner. I also
> >> want them for breeding, and I try to get rid of
> them before
> >> they get too
> >> 'bullish'. One good thing about keeping
> them
> >> 'on the hoof' is that I can
> >> hold them up to 2 years until I'm ready to
> have them
> >> butchered.
> >>
> >> Lynn Wigglesworth
> >> Tioga Co. PA
> >>
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