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Re: o/t cow with broke leg


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Posted by WA-Hal on February 22, 2010 at 19:00:01 from (208.81.157.90):

In Reply to: o/t cow with broke leg posted by JNRcountryboy on February 21, 2010 at 15:51:19:

Years ago, my Dad had a large, mature cow break both front legs in a feed bunk somehow. I was living in town at the time and he called me to come out to the ranch after midnight. He only found her because he heard the cows screaming after he had gone to bed.

When I got there Dad had dragged the cow out of the barnyard with the old Case tractor. Unfortunately, the Case did not have a loader, so we ended up butchering the cow on the ground. I shot her between the eyes and cut her throat, but she really didn't bleed out as well as she should have, since gravity wasn't helping.

We worked for hours. It was raining and snowing and we didn't have the best light, but we got it done. I found that the quarters were so heavy that I couldn't lift them up from the ground, so we cut the carcass in 6 pieces. We then hung them in a shed and later took them to the meat cutter's place. All in all, it was a heck of a bad night for the 3 of us.

The cow had been horribly stressed after breaking both front legs and thrashing around trying to get up. By the time Dad dragged her out, she was pretty well worn out, but still alive and breathing.

The meat was edible, but I sure wouldn't say it was very good. My folks had lots of it ground into hamburger, which was kind of bloody. The steaks and roasts were fair. Normally we would have sold half of the cow, but in this situation, my folks kept it all. It took a long time to use it all up, but being thrifty, that was what we did. I guess it tasted OK, just not great.

Hopefully you are set up better to butcher than my folks were. Even being able to lift the carcass with a front end loader would have made the job a whole lot easier and the cow would have bled out much better. But you do what you have to do...and you don't expect super meat from an injured animal. Good luck!


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