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<blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 1771438" data-attributes="member: 7900"><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">So long as one doesn't go overboard on how much they order, it should last until you've eaten it all. When we were butchering, it was the two of us and our two boys. When the freezer tended to begin to get low and the next steer went in for butchering, our butcher always stamped a date on the outside of the paper wrapping (that's meat paper used by butchers) so that we could always know which was the oldest meat. If I remember right, we used to get 1/2 of a beef and her mom and dad took the other half.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">As mentioned earlier, try a few pounds of the meat first before buying. Then if possible, start out with a 1/4 of a beef and see how long it takes to use up the meat. Check with the butcher to see which cuts of meat come from which part of the cow critter. That will help you choose which "quarter" to ask for.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">My father-in-law was a supreme believer that the best beef was Hereford, so all of his cattle were that breed. When we bought our own cattle, they were Black Angus so they were easier to tell apart from his. While the Herefords brought a little more money at auction, the Black Angus calves tended to put more meat on and weighed more than a Hereford born at about the same time. Money-wise, it was about equal with a heavier calf bringing as much as the more premium Hereford.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The first time the father-in-law had butchered a black-baldy, we changed to the type of steers we fed out for meat. The Angus meat was just so much better than the Hereford's.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Oh, a black-baldy is a white-faced Angus cow critter that is out of an Angus cow by a Hereford bull.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryMiller, post: 1771438, member: 7900"] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]So long as one doesn't go overboard on how much they order, it should last until you've eaten it all. When we were butchering, it was the two of us and our two boys. When the freezer tended to begin to get low and the next steer went in for butchering, our butcher always stamped a date on the outside of the paper wrapping (that's meat paper used by butchers) so that we could always know which was the oldest meat. If I remember right, we used to get 1/2 of a beef and her mom and dad took the other half. As mentioned earlier, try a few pounds of the meat first before buying. Then if possible, start out with a 1/4 of a beef and see how long it takes to use up the meat. Check with the butcher to see which cuts of meat come from which part of the cow critter. That will help you choose which "quarter" to ask for. My father-in-law was a supreme believer that the best beef was Hereford, so all of his cattle were that breed. When we bought our own cattle, they were Black Angus so they were easier to tell apart from his. While the Herefords brought a little more money at auction, the Black Angus calves tended to put more meat on and weighed more than a Hereford born at about the same time. Money-wise, it was about equal with a heavier calf bringing as much as the more premium Hereford. The first time the father-in-law had butchered a black-baldy, we changed to the type of steers we fed out for meat. The Angus meat was just so much better than the Hereford's. Oh, a black-baldy is a white-faced Angus cow critter that is out of an Angus cow by a Hereford bull.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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