Slaughtering Every Monday...

[Packy]

I was reading about the Meat locker in a teeny-tiny littlebitty town of 750, waaay up north, out in the middle o' nowhere, named something that sounds like "Dust Bin". Though small as it is, the city of "Dust Bin" sits in two counties! There is a tourist attraction of sorts there, a large rock "grotto" built by a bored, obsessed priest, in the first 1/2 of the 20th century. Anyway, the locker is a nice, neat, tidy tin building on the edge o' town, where you can take your animal, drop it off, and have it slaughtered, every Monday. I s'pose they have one o' those compressed-gas-powered captive bolt pistols, like the one featured in "No Country For Old Men", which was the last mooovvvee I watched, about 4-5 years ago. You mark up a chart, a diagram indicating how you want it cut up. Then, they wrap everything up in nice, neat, tidy butcher paper packages, seal them with tape that have the company logos & phone number on them, and use a grease pencil to denote the 'zact contents in their coded abbreviations. That way, you won't accidentally unwrap burger, when it is time for your daily ribeye or T-bone steak, or else Sundy is coming up, and you want rump roas' & taters n' gravy to eat with the graaaandkids. Hope that helps you some. If you have cattle or hogs or ??? that you want custom-processed, pm me, and I will give you contact info.

[ctg492]

Of course slaughter houses mark your packages. It's not all burger. Of course many raise their own animals for slaughter, knowing they have meat that they know exactly what went into it. It's about as local as one can get for meats.

[Packy]

Of course slaughter houses mark your packages. It's not all burger. Of course many raise their own animals for slaughter, knowing they have meat that they know exactly what went into it. It's about as local as one can get for meats.Well, I figure they should make all of it into greasy hamburger. It will save time and money, that way. Then, the farmers can eat meat pie(Pizza), 3 meals a day, every day, and not get skinny and weak like a marathon runner or one o' them kids on the "Tour de France.". They'll be big and strong,upwards of 300#, like a lineman on the "Moo U" or "Silo Tech" or the "Cornshuckers" Football teams.

[zeaxmays]

would you believe that there are places you can take your fruits and veggies and get them canned? its a crazy concept.

[Packy]

would you believe that there are places you can take your fruits and veggies and get them canned? its a crazy concept.Really, that is not such a bad idea, in certain cases. Like, if you lived pioneer-style in a remote area with a short growing season, or you were offering it for sale at a roadside stand, etc., where you had to pack your product on a large scale, and do it to meet health standards. That said, if I had a 20' x 20' plot of zuchini or carrots or beets, I wouldn't bother with it. They are not a high-value crop, that would even be a staple of your diet.

[bae]

We do a lot of slaughtering and processing right on the farm in this county:

http://www.extension.org/pages/15739/island-grown-farmers-cooperative#.VQxiBjp0xhE

http://trivan.com/mobile-processing-unit

[Packy]

Yes, well the proper name is "abattoir". This way, most people don't know quite what you've got going on. That said, I've been thinking about getting together some investors, and building a huuuge stockyard, feedlot, and packing house for cattle, hogs, sheep and maybe even horses, out there on Orcas. Call it: "Constitution Mountain Premium Foods", aimed at an upscale market in the PNW. It would certainly be a shot in the arm for the local economy, as "they" like to say. Of course, we'd have to build more affordable housing for the workforce, and of course hire managers that are bilingual. But, that's not a problem--lots of folk are leaving California, looking for opportunities. Hope that helps you some.

[Tammy]

A little over 20 years ago my husband shot a mule deer. We butchered it with the help of our 4 year old son who carried the chunks of meat from outdoors where his dad was butchering, to the kitchen where I ground it up and packaged it for the freezer. Nothing like doing it ourselves. I wonder what the neighbors thought. We lived in a trailer park. Ha

[Packy]

A little over 20 years ago my husband shot a mule deer. We butchered it with the help of our 4 year old son who carried the chunks of meat from outdoors where his dad was butchering, to the kitchen where I ground it up and packaged it for the freezer. Nothing like doing it ourselves. I wonder what the neighbors thought. We lived in a trailer park. HaNow, that is the kind of story I like to see, on these type of discussions.