How much freezer room for a cattle beast?

[Netherfield]

If you have someone to butcher for you ask if they can freeze it as well. You can soon spoil good meat by not freezing quickly enough.

 

[Werzle]

We re-bagged and/or double bagged ours because of the blood freezing it all together. Butcher usually wants to know how much you want in a bag or size of joints so you only have to open/thaw one for the family meal and how much chuck and mince you want.
Fingers crossed you get back the beast you sent in!

 

[JD-Kid]

like alot of said if the butcher can pack and freeze it will make it a lot easer to deal with most will have a blast freezer and can do it. for you
seen people just put it in a freezer. pack it in and the centre stuff rotted before it froze
ummmm they do take up a fair bit of room if need be yer got any mates with a spare freezer yer can put some in just incase dose not all fit

 

[redcoo235]

Cheers for replies, going to see if i can get it blast frozen before we get it. Managed to get the use of two uprights as well so hopefully be sorted know.

 

[honeyend]

Ours filled two medium sized chest freezers. I made the mistake of leaving it in the butchers shallow boxes, which fine until you want something from the bottom box. It now all in strong carrier bags, with good handles separated into cuts. We had a lot of mince and I agree its more versatile than stewing steak, I make my own burgers, and we have weekly chilli.
I turn the freezer down a couple of days before and it didn't take long to freeze.

 

[brigadoon]

Getting a fat heifer killed for sharing between three families and wondered roughly how much freezer space we will need? Beast is 650kg and will be an R grade. Have 2, 300 litre chest freezers, be enough?

TIA, John

This is one quarter of O+4l - 255Kg dwt so estimated liveweight 390Kg

 

[ImLost]

View attachment 901901
This is one quarter of O+4l - 255Kg dwt so estimated liveweight 390Kg

How much did each of the different cuts/sections come to?

 

[brigadoon]

How much did each of the different cuts/sections come to?

Ignore the first 4 columns - they are customer figures - total weight and % in last two columns - more mince than usual with this one

Mince	14.50	7.00	2.00	15.50	24.00	63.00	42.26%
Stew steak	2.00		1.00	4.00	8.00	15.00	10.06%
Braising Steak	2.78		1.00	4.19	8.19	16.16	10.84%
Frying Steak						0.00	0.00%
Rump Steak	1.88		1.02	1.94	2.21	7.05	4.73%
Sirloin Steak	2.03	1.20	2.68	2.88	1.92	10.71	7.18%
Fillet Steak	0.64			0.98	1.69	3.31	2.22%
Rib Roast						0.00	0.00%
Brisket	1.78			1.77	3.20	6.75	4.53%
Topside	2.23		2.34	3.41	4.92	12.90	8.65%
Silverside	1.82	5.00		2.37	1.88	11.07	7.43%
Ribeye Steak	0.66			0.64	1.83	3.13	2.10%
T Bone						0.00	0.00%
Popeseye						0.00	0.00%
Burgers						0.00	0.00%
Skirt						0.00	0.00%
Link						0.00	0.00%
Lorne						0.00	0.00%
						0.00
TOTALS	30.32	13.20	10.04	37.68	57.84	149.08	100.00%

 

[Chasingmytail]

at least 2 big chest freezers but really 3 as you cant freezer it all in one go. 2 will be pushing it to be honest and chest freezers vary in size. So 3.

 

[redcoo235]

Just a update. Heifer killed 374kg dead, no grade but recon R3-4L start of November. Got 252Kg back of backed meat, no oval. Will not all be meat as had a fair bit of sausages made so recon about 240-245kg meat back so recon 60-63% bone out weight. Filled 2.5 chest 200litre freezers and one upright. Meat was blast frozen before we picked it up so no worries about getting it frozen at home. Has been nice to give as gifts this Christmas.