re: Buying a half cow butchered

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All I really need is someone to cut the steaks and piece up for me but I'm assuming if I pay a butcher anything they are going to have to do it properly? I've butchered a bunch of deer myself but I don't make t-bones and what not, I don't have a band saw.

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The slaughterhouse is doing quite a bit more than cut steaks and piece up the meat. There's, umm, the actual killing & bleeding, skinning, evisceration, etc, plus the meat is hung (aged) as sides before it is portioned into the various cuts.

You specify exactly how many larger cuts vs ground you want. If you want only the trimmings as ground, that's what you'll get.