I think it's about £340 ---vac packed , labeled, priced/kg with farm name etc ---i will find out this week when i pick the next one up
How much actual meat on a Heifer or Bullock?
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I think it's about £340 ---vac packed , labeled, priced/kg with farm name etc ---i will find out this week when i pick the next one up
M-J-G
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+/- 75% of carcass
800KG X 55%KO = 440KG Carcass
440KG X 75% = 330KG for the freezer.
800KG X 55%KO = 440KG Carcass
440KG X 75% = 330KG for the freezer.
Whitewalker
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We butchered 250 kg deadweight aa heifer recently . Cost £250 kill fees and butchered. Vac pac and labelled . Cleared nearly in 3 weeks in meat boxes . Approx £450 profit over selling to factory . Well worth the bother and good craic doing it
Not for the heifer it wasn't
Whitewalker
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Sorry 450 over costs . That’s including the kill fees etc . 
Get you now . No craic for the wee woman but she was going one way or tother .
Get you now . No craic for the wee woman but she was going one way or tother .
If I send a, say 800kg, off to slaughter, what amount of edible meat should I expect back from that?
Is there a ratio that gives weight of beast : weight of meat?
Not talking about liver, kidneys etc etc, just the meat itself.
Hope you've got a big freezer! I had a 5 month old bull calf killed and butchered last week, he filled a 100 litre chest freezer and more besides. Got 6 boxes of meat from him (no offal).
Alice thats a lot of meat of a wee calf ! 6 boxes would be 120 kg !Was this the spastic paresis calf? I still have mine he's probably 200 kg now, I can't imagine he would get down a ramp without stumbling, I don't fancy leaving him at an abattoir , how did you get on with your one ?
Hi. Yes it was that calf. The butcher was surprised by the amount too, although when I dropped the lad off the man said that he was bigger than he had anticipated. Then again he had been well fed for 2 months, plus the cow had plenty of dairy nuts for those 2 months, and he went straight from udder to hook.
I don't actually know what weight he was alive or dead, but he did have a good bum on him. I wanted to get him as close to 6 months old as I could but then it's running too close to Christmas and I'd be getting in the way at the butchers. As it was he was 5 months old to the day.
See if you can get yours to a butcher rather than an abbatoir. I've never done it before but the man was so lovely that I wouldn't hesitate to go to him again in the future.
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- Near Colchester
Do these calculation include the bit nicked by the butcher?
thanks Alice cow I will try and find a kindly butcher, thanks for that, another 2 months he might be ready
How old is he?
Being left short by a butcher....?
Alicecow he is 5 months now he's a sim x
My boy was a lim x sim
You could start looking for a tame butcher now with a view to taking the calf to him sometime after Christmas. One butcher said that the meat is too soft and doesn't 'set' if they are too young (under 6 months) but veal sells well in some places. Not much fat cover on them when they're young. My vet was giving me recipes and cooking tips!
My vet said he didn't need a letter with him to explain the leg problem, but the butcher said that was really up to the vet in attendance on the day, however he didn't ring me to say we needed one.
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- Buckinghamshire
Kill out percentage would vary a lot depending on breed. Our limos kill out between 60- 65%. Which would make a fair difference to your figures. Also certain Bulls will be fine boned and heavy muscled. We ran a bull on heifers that had very fine bone structure but was well muscled and regularly had offspring killing out between 63 and 65%.