Anyone ever bought half of a cow?

Is that a new species or half a cow?

If half a cow you're wasting your money
Buy beef when it goes on sale
Cheaper and not a hassle

if you are doing it to save money on meat, you won't...we used to buy cows and have them slaughtered, but that became ineffective from a cost standpoint...

elaborate please.... I'm new to this too, I like grass fed meat...

I can get a grass fed calf for 4 bucks pp from a rancher I know... plus lets say 1 dollars pp for butchering and packing. I cant get grass fed ground meat at the store for less than that.

GF Beef retail prices around BR
ground -6 pp
roasts:- 9 pp
ribeyes 23 pp
filet-- 32 pp

I still think I'm better off on the whole cow, am I missing something?

I hear ya, the stuff is marketed well....

Only time I've seen it was at an auction last year. Half the ownership for unproven bull was $12,000. Beef is retarded right now. Stay away.

I primarily eat a caveman diet. My family usually eats 2-3 deer per year, plus every other year or so I may get 70 plus pounds of elk meat if lucky. I had a bad hunting season, I put 30 lbs of deer meat in the freezer. This is the first year I've thought about it. I priced a grass fed cow and prices ran around 7 pp for 280 lbs, a rancher my pops knows said he would sell me one for 4 pp, i get to pick it, they will slaughter then hang it for a few weeks, then I go to the butcher and tell him how to cut it and take it home... this sounds like a decent deal if I know I will eat a large portion of the meat before next hunting season

I've never bought half a cow before but I have bought a Side Of Beef.

My dad this one time when I was a kid. It was a great summer for me and my brother. We cleaned that freezer out before anybody knew what was going on.

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ETA: I would guess that you are only gonna put 30% or 40% of the gross weight of the cow in your freezer...

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From what I've read you get about 60-65% of the live weight to the hanging weight.

Then from there you yield about 75% from the hanging weight. So for a generic 1,000 lbs. steer (live weight) you yield about 470 pounds (cut and wrapped).

I'm getting a calf, I'll get a lot less meat

see this breakdown LINK


more good information--- LINK


I'll report back