Butchering Beef on the Homestead
Butchering beef on the homestead isn’t the easiest task. Here are the best tools and resources we found after butchering 4 cows on the farm.
Butchering
Butcher at home with our guides to hogs and beef on the homestead, a chicken butchering supplies checklist, sausage casings, and estimating live weight.
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How to Prepare Casings for Sausage Making?
The sub-mucosa of the small intestine of meat animals is used to make natural sausage casings. It is a part of the intestine that is primarily composed of naturally occurring collagen. Chinese and Western European cuisines use casings. People utilize intestines from pigs, but in other regions, sheep, goats, cattle, and occasionally even horses. How…
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Essential Chicken Butchering Supplies Checklist
What supplies do you need to butcher your own chickens? This list will show you what equipment you need to process your own poultry at home.
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How to Peel Chicken Feet
Chicken feet in soup or stock improve flavor and nutritional value, but first, you need to know how to clean chicken feet to prepare them.
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How to Estimate the Weight of a Live Hog?
How much does a pig weight? You can figure how much a pig weighs with a tape measure, calculator, and formula to estimate a live hog weight.
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Homestead Hog Butchering: Leg Quarter
One Year Ago: ~Week 43~ The most recent addition to the Homestead Hog Butchering page has been made. It was the most difficult one to piece together and therefore I saved it for last of the actual butchering of the hog. (All that remains is preparing casings and lard making.) In this video I stepped outside of my…
