My steer was around 1000 lbs live weight when I sent him and we got 502 lbs of meat back. And with the 28 day hang the meat was incredibly tender. So the longer hang time paid off for us.
@@tommys_trucks_trains_tractors yeah . Have been raising lamb for a few years and decided to raise a bottle calf for the first time to gauge how difficult it would be to see if it was a viable option for our farm . Like Evan we do a little of this and a little of that.
I just subscribed to your channel a few days ago and I’ve got to tell you your videos are excellent I love the detail and the slow pace and everything, you definitely have a talent for this and it is really cool to see your farm develop , thank you and keep up the good work please !
I always enjoy hearing your breakdown of the costs and how things went. They are real helpful to me in showing me what to keep track of personally in my own enterprises.
Always good to see your friendly, smiling face on a new video, Mr. Evan. I perceive the time is coming when all of that stored food will serve you very well ...
Example: Bought 3 different types of feed and mixed them together for all the animals. Total cost $800 for 1500 lbs. Pig ate 2 lbs.. per day for the first month, 3 lbs. the second month,, 4 lbs. the third month and 5 lbs. the fourth month for a total of 420 lbs. over 120 days. $800 x 420/1500 = $224 to feed the pig or about $1.87 per day. Or, you could grow turnips and feed those to the pigs.
Great video, very informative, thank you. You remind me of my other favorite farmer YT channel called Just a Few Acres Farm. Pete in central NYS, has great information and brings joy…you do too…thank you.
You know exactly what went into the animals and how they were treated whilst alive. Just knowing that makes them taste better. Traceability, Farm to Fork. Worth every penny.
at our Krogers store in the Houston area, the pork roasts were $0.89/lb last week. Yesterday, we bought beef ribeye steaks at $5.97/lb and we bought a ham and got free turkey at Brookshire Bros grocery. 3 weeks ago I dropped two nuisance feral hogs but I left them for the buzzards. we have a bad feral hog problem in East Texas.
Thanks for sharing. The meat looks great! The bacon looks like it will be a great breakfast delight. It seems like you will save a lot with all that meat and the cost of things going up.
We had a pig farm in the 1990's. Back then the industry average was about 600 pounds of feed to take a 40 pound pig to market weight at about 240 pounds. In those days lean pork was more desirable, I believe market hogs today are much heavier. We never butchered our hogs we always had that done at a local processor. We sold lots of live hogs to customers where we normally delivered the hog to the processor. We had one customer who always had the whole hog processed into sausage. Thanks for sharing this with us.
That pork shoulder roast will take a long time to smoke but well worth it. It just did 2 roasts and froze a lot of the smoked pork in one pound packages to eat during the winter when it’s too cold to be outside. This past summer, we purchased a 1/4 cow from a local farmer and the meat is fabulous. The average price of the beef was $5 a pound and we haven’t been disappointed. We are considering half a pig next year.
More talkative than your usually vids maybe but highly informative. The hoof weight to finished product and such was interesting for starters. And personally I never even knew there was such a thing as a fridge/freezer option in the same unit - haven't purchased either in a few years. So yeah thanks for the info and another great video.
I have a steer that I will be sending to freezer camp in September. I am hoping he is not too terribly big by then because I have one old freezer and plan on getting another one soon. I am hoping to can a some of the meat. I have gotten a side of beef before and it filled my freezer.
We have been raising our own beef for many years. We prefer to take ours strait off of grass to butcher. Seems to have better taste than feeding out for more weight.
Evan, that is a good thing. I prefer larger hogs to butcher. You get larger hams, picnics and shoulders. The upside to me is you can have one ham cut into steaks, as well as one shoulder, plus have the ones from the other side cut in half. I bought a half a hog at the locker plant this year, I ended up mostly with bacon and sausage, my friend did not want any shoulder roasts, and I forgot to have the picnic cured and smoked. If they did the jowl, they marked it as bacon.
Thanks for the video Evan. Really appreciate the day to day life on your lifestyle block. You come across as a real down to earth decent person. Not the typical loud brash in your face American that we see and hear in the media here in Australia. Keep those videos coming Mate ( Australian slang = friend)
Great job!! You sure are going to be very well stocked up. You forgot to touch upon the fact the the frig/freezer will be great to have it on frig mode for the meat to rest once you start butchering your own meat. You can do that for the chickens next time you process them 👍 Happy for you both Corpus Christi TX
So , you must have a Whole house generator to fall back ON , in case you lose power ! Otherwise , your frozen meat would spoil as well as anything else that was frozen !
If the freezer is full and kept at near zero degrees, the items will stay frozen for a few days if it loses power….if you keep it closed. This is just my personal experience with basic chest freezers.
chest freezer with extra temp. control to cut off at 33 deg and on at 36 deg will save a lot of money over an upright freezer in upfront cost and in running cost.
Chest freezers are more economical to use whatever country or are you then stand-up ones you can store more food in them specially the big ones I think you need to look into that
Yes, chest freezers are more economical and store more food. But uprights are easier to find what you looking for and take up less floor space. They each have their advantages and disadvantages. Just depends on what you want. If you want a cheap way to store lots of frozen food, the chest freezer is the way to go.
The pigs turned out really well for you and Rebecca and now you are ready for the winter with plenty of pork and the beef is coming, so you will have home grown beef, pork, vegetables and fruits in the freezer. I like the way you have done the pole barn, the dog kennel looks really good and I know the dogs will love it and the rest is coming along also.
Thanks Evan and Rebecca for sharing with us, so glad you both are doing so well with your work on the farm. Stay safe and keep up the good work and videos. Fred. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻✋🏻✋🏻
I don’t see any reason to buy special pig feed just to keep track of feed costs, when you know what you’ve got works for all your critters. You know how much you’ve bought (weight wise).. just put a clipboard with a tally sheet next to your supplies and put hash marks for every 5 gallon pail used (for each animal group). Weigh a full pail of feed and use it as an approximation to figure your future or past costs (since you fed them every day x times)… it’s not exact, but should suffice. Don’t waist time and money buying “special feed” when you’re going to get the best price buying bulk corn and processing/mixing it yourself. You’ve already proven it works!
Hi..... Evan nice to see you love watching your videos I really enjoy, thank you for showing your video homestead chicken Duck Goose farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐕🐈🐐🐖🐄🐝🐠🌱🌺🌹🌿🌻🌼🌸🍀🌷🏡🎥👍👍👍
WOW that is alot of meat and all i got is very hungry { lol} i think there is a high number of people doing just what you folks did because then u know what u are really eating.. great videos...
JudithB We enjoyed having our own meat from the farm, processed the way we wanted! We had to shuffle our current freezers to get sale turkeys in, plan to cook and can 2 next week! I think we are going to concentrate on hams and pork roasts after Thanksgiving and fill more jars.
Informative video for sure. I can't say its one of my favorites but it really is a good one to learn from. Kind of like needing that one college course that you have to have but it's not the most exciting subject... lol We're getting ready to move out to our new property in a few months and will probably be taking a similar journey as you guys, dipping our toes into different things to see what we can and can't do or, more like, what we want and don't want to do. Thanks.
We sold grass finished beef for several years until covid hit and now for some reason our processor is booked up for a year and a half so that basically put us out of business. We could have sold a hundred head this year if we could have gotten them processed.
@@CountryViewAcres I have an appointment but I had to book it 2 years ago. Most customers don't want to wait 2 years for their beef so unless things change we are out of the beef business.
As always a Great Video , its great that you look after the family in the process , and YES this is heaps cheaper than buying from the store , Packet meat from the store is expensive , at least you know what your getting is super fresh and great quality , again just an awesome way of life , it aint easy , but definitely worth it , a huge Hello from Perth Australia
I have never heard of a convertible freezer. I'm just curious what brand and model your new one is. I deffently need one. Thanks for sharing. Big thumbs up..........
I've learned that no matter how many pigs or cows you raise that there will be somebody that will by it. l raise 12 to 18 pigs every year 6 at a time and dad will raise 6 cows and it seems that no matter how many animals you raise that there will be people who will buy them. Thanks for another great video
For reference, how long will all that meat hold in a freezer? I was always under the impression 3 months tops for meat, but maybe that's just store bought and not vacuumed sealed.
Look at all that meat, it´s very very good to have this for the winter to come, and also know where your meat comes from, nothing extra weird in those, wonderful, I liked to know this even that the costs doesnt match in my country, it is still interesting :)
HA MAN I LIKE YOUR VIDEO. I HAVE ONE THING TO SAY, WHEN YOU STORE YOUR HAY IN THE BARN STACK THE HAY ON THE EDGE NOT ON FLAT SIDE. YOU GET VENTILATIONS.
Good advice! And I can't eat commercially produced ag products (Roundup makes me ill) and was so lucky to find a farmer who produces pasture raised, chemical-free beef (I get milk from his dairy) and now his brother is producing pastured pork. I had to buy a freezer, too! It is now almost half-full of beef and I have yet to pick up our half pig! Hope it fits! And the price per pound was much less than what I would pay at my organic food market - so I have not only more meat, but cuts that I could not afford to buy. This amount of meat will last us a year (or more).
Don't sell yourself short, you have excellent and informative videos. Keep them coming!
Evan, the look of Pride, and Accomplishment, on your face!! WELL DESERVED! You guys have every Right to be Proud of your hard work!
We just picked up a hog from the processor today too. It’s such a great feeling having freezers full of good healthy meat that you raised.
My steer was around 1000 lbs live weight when I sent him and we got 502 lbs of meat back. And with the 28 day hang the meat was incredibly tender. So the longer hang time paid off for us.
That’s absolutely true. It’s well worth the wait
@@tommys_trucks_trains_tractors yeah . Have been raising lamb for a few years and decided to raise a bottle calf for the first time to gauge how difficult it would be to see if it was a viable option for our farm . Like Evan we do a little of this and a little of that.
@@freeholdequine2733 same here. I get Jersey calves from
A local dairy for next to nothing. We have sheep and chickens as well
I just subscribed to your channel a few days ago and I’ve got to tell you your videos are excellent I love the detail and the slow pace and everything, you definitely have a talent for this and it is really cool to see your farm develop , thank you and keep up the good work please !
I always enjoy hearing your breakdown of the costs and how things went. They are real helpful to me in showing me what to keep track of personally in my own enterprises.
Thank you very much that was a very good video I wish you all the luck in the world
Always good to see your friendly, smiling face on a new video, Mr. Evan. I perceive the time is coming when all of that stored food will serve you very well ...
Wow, they weighed so much more than what they looked like on video. Absolutely large.
Wish I lived closer I’d buy a half a steer from you! Thanks for the up date. 🥰🙃
YAY! The pigs are back! 😃
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Wait a moment...
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Somehow they look a bit different...😮 😉
Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻
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Me and wife liked this video. Me and wife enjoy your video's.
Example: Bought 3 different types of feed and mixed them together for all the animals. Total cost $800 for 1500 lbs. Pig ate 2 lbs.. per day for the first month, 3 lbs. the second month,, 4 lbs. the third month and 5 lbs. the fourth month for a total of 420 lbs. over 120 days. $800 x 420/1500 = $224 to feed the pig or about $1.87 per day. Or, you could grow turnips and feed those to the pigs.
Love your transparency on the costs etc and my word.........thats a lotta meat!
Talk all you want, your speech is knowledge. That is why we watch and listen. Great video!
Great video, very informative, thank you. You remind me of my other favorite farmer YT channel called Just a Few Acres Farm. Pete in central NYS, has great information and brings joy…you do too…thank you.
Yeah, Pete has a great channel.
Cold beers for the summer time 🍺🍻 in the pole barn Evan 😊👍
Thanks for sharing. Blessings🙂
Some great info! Thanks. Never heard of the convertible freezer. That's amazing! Definitely need to find a local farmer to buy meat next year.
Thanks for giving a City Slicker a run down of costs, most interesting, and you know exactly what you are getting.
One of the best video's on youtube.
Well done, very informative and enjoyable to listen to..
Good to see you guys again. Mighty fine haul of meat from the hogs. Looking forward to a great video.
You know exactly what went into the animals and how they were treated whilst alive. Just knowing that makes them taste better. Traceability, Farm to Fork. Worth every penny.
Proud for you and Rebecca!
My freezers are full of venison right now. Full freezers is a good problem to have. Congratulations on your harvest. 👍👍❤
Thx
That looks like a great load of prime meat. U know they have had a good life & will taste great. 😋
at our Krogers store in the Houston area, the pork roasts were $0.89/lb last week. Yesterday, we bought beef ribeye steaks at $5.97/lb and we bought a ham and got free turkey at Brookshire Bros grocery. 3 weeks ago I dropped two nuisance feral hogs but I left them for the buzzards. we have a bad feral hog problem in East Texas.
Very interesting video today. I really enjoyed it.
wow nice job! This city slicker loved tbe info..I took notes! I never even heard of a convertable freezer/fridge
Thank you for going thru that.
Thank you a lot of useful information something to think about thank you
Thanks for sharing. The meat looks great! The bacon looks like it will be a great breakfast delight. It seems like you will save a lot with all that meat and the cost of things going up.
Thanks for the information.
Great information Evan
great video,, i needed to hear all the info. i can, thanks Evan.
We had a pig farm in the 1990's. Back then the industry average was about 600 pounds of feed to take a 40 pound pig to market weight at about 240 pounds. In those days lean pork was more desirable, I believe market hogs today are much heavier. We never butchered our hogs we always had that done at a local processor. We sold lots of live hogs to customers where we normally delivered the hog to the processor. We had one customer who always had the whole hog processed into sausage. Thanks for sharing this with us.
It the past couple years I seemed to feed 900 pounds of feed to each pig. For around a 300 pound pig. I will track it better next year.
Very interested video
Good video thanks
The pork is so dark. Looks amazing also a good idea to have the convertables
That pork shoulder roast will take a long time to smoke but well worth it. It just did 2 roasts and froze a lot of the smoked pork in one pound packages to eat during the winter when it’s too cold to be outside. This past summer, we purchased a 1/4 cow from a local farmer and the meat is fabulous. The average price of the beef was $5 a pound and we haven’t been disappointed. We are considering half a pig next year.
More talkative than your usually vids maybe but highly informative. The hoof weight to finished product and such was interesting for starters. And personally I never even knew there was such a thing as a fridge/freezer option in the same unit - haven't purchased either in a few years. So yeah thanks for the info and another great video.
Good morning from Grand Forks
I have a steer that I will be sending to freezer camp in September. I am hoping he is not too terribly big by then because I have one old freezer and plan on getting another one soon. I am hoping to can a some of the meat. I have gotten a side of beef before and it filled my freezer.
Looks like your estimates on weight a couple weeks ago were spot on Even.
Hope you have a whole house generator?
Found this very interesting and informative
Enjoyed watching and listening!
We always used to cure the bacon and hams ourselves. We liked a wet cure, and had so much fun exploring different methods of curing.
We cured our own bacon before. I didn't think about it this year.
We have been raising our own beef for many years. We prefer to take ours strait off of grass to butcher. Seems to have better taste than feeding out for more weight.
Wow, they were huge. Great job.
Evan, that is a good thing. I prefer larger hogs to butcher. You get larger hams, picnics and shoulders. The upside to me is you can have one ham cut into steaks, as well as one shoulder, plus have the ones from the other side cut in half. I bought a half a hog at the locker plant this year, I ended up mostly with bacon and sausage, my friend did not want any shoulder roasts, and I forgot to have the picnic cured and smoked. If they did the jowl, they marked it as bacon.
There are two year waiting list here in Kansas.
Thanks for the video Evan. Really appreciate the day to day life on your lifestyle block. You come across as a real down to earth decent person. Not the typical loud brash in your face American that we see and hear in the media here in Australia. Keep those videos coming Mate ( Australian slang = friend)
Great job!! You sure are going to be very well stocked up. You forgot to touch upon the fact the the frig/freezer will be great to have it on frig mode for the meat to rest once you start butchering your own meat. You can do that for the chickens next time you process them 👍
Happy for you both
Corpus Christi TX
Yes, I was definitely thinking using it for when butchering chckens.
So , you must have a Whole house generator to fall back ON , in case you lose power ! Otherwise , your frozen meat would spoil as well as anything else that was frozen !
If the freezer is full and kept at near zero degrees, the items will stay frozen for a few days if it loses power….if you keep it closed. This is just my personal experience with basic chest freezers.
Good one
This is a great info video.
Good info
Nice..
Great video. Important information to pass along.
Very interesting video thanks for sharing
chest freezer with extra temp. control to cut off at 33 deg and on at 36 deg will save a lot of money over an upright freezer in upfront cost and in running cost.
Great video! Very informative… Really enjoying your channel.
Chest freezers are more economical to use whatever country or are you then stand-up ones you can store more food in them specially the big ones I think you need to look into that
Yes, chest freezers are more economical and store more food. But uprights are easier to find what you looking for and take up less floor space. They each have their advantages and disadvantages. Just depends on what you want. If you want a cheap way to store lots of frozen food, the chest freezer is the way to go.
The pigs turned out really well for you and Rebecca and now you are ready for the winter with plenty of pork and the beef is coming, so you will have home grown beef, pork, vegetables and fruits in the freezer. I like the way you have done the pole barn, the dog kennel looks really good and I know the dogs will love it and the rest is coming along also.
Thanks Evan and Rebecca for sharing with us, so glad you both are doing so well with your work on the farm. Stay safe and keep up the good work and videos. Fred. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻✋🏻✋🏻
I’ve never heard of the freezer refrigerator like that what are they called
Great videos... Happy Thanksgiving! Keep up the good work.
I don’t see any reason to buy special pig feed just to keep track of feed costs, when you know what you’ve got works for all your critters. You know how much you’ve bought (weight wise).. just put a clipboard with a tally sheet next to your supplies and put hash marks for every 5 gallon pail used (for each animal group). Weigh a full pail of feed and use it as an approximation to figure your future or past costs (since you fed them every day x times)… it’s not exact, but should suffice. Don’t waist time and money buying “special feed” when you’re going to get the best price buying bulk corn and processing/mixing it yourself. You’ve already proven it works!
Hi..... Evan nice to see you love watching your videos I really enjoy, thank you for showing your video homestead chicken Duck Goose farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐕🐈🐐🐖🐄🐝🐠🌱🌺🌹🌿🌻🌼🌸🍀🌷🏡🎥👍👍👍
Picking up my hog today. Picked up half a beef 2 weeks ago. We are set for a little while. Now I just need to find a local chicken farmer.
Thanks for sharing. I am strongly considering making the jump to raise my own animals as well. This helps a feller learn somethings. 👍🏼
WOW that is alot of meat and all i got is very hungry { lol} i think there is a high number of people doing just what you folks did because then u know what u are really eating.. great videos...
JudithB We enjoyed having our own meat from the farm, processed the way we wanted! We had to shuffle our current freezers to get sale turkeys in, plan to cook and can 2 next week! I think we are going to concentrate on hams and pork roasts after Thanksgiving and fill more jars.
Let’s have a cookout!😊🥩🥓🍗
Good stuff.
Looks like your set for another year!
Informative video for sure. I can't say its one of my favorites but it really is a good one to learn from. Kind of like needing that one college course that you have to have but it's not the most exciting subject... lol We're getting ready to move out to our new property in a few months and will probably be taking a similar journey as you guys, dipping our toes into different things to see what we can and can't do or, more like, what we want and don't want to do. Thanks.
Question, now that you have filled your freezers FULL of Pork, Where are you going to put your beef?
That shoulder!!!
Evan nice haul on the pork,my question is since your freezer all full where you gonna put the beef at.
I would get two larger chest style freezers.
Take care folks.
There’s a site you want to look at just a few acres more Homestead farm he does a lot of pics and that he has a very good system storing
It's good that the pigs are back from Camp freezer .Thanks for
Video . When's the cook out ?
DUDE! YOUR FREEZERS ARE FULL, WHERE YOU PUTTING YOUR STEERS?
We sold grass finished beef for several years until covid hit and now for some reason our processor is booked up for a year and a half so that basically put us out of business. We could have sold a hundred head this year if we could have gotten them processed.
I have scheduling butcher dates when I buy my feeders, because they processors are so booked up
@@CountryViewAcres I have an appointment but I had to book it 2 years ago. Most customers don't want to wait 2 years for their beef so unless things change we are out of the beef business.
Evan you try to salt cure a ham. that is really good fried up for breakfast with eggs and biscuits .+
As always a Great Video , its great that you look after the family in the process , and YES this is heaps cheaper than buying from the store , Packet meat from the store is expensive , at least you know what your getting is super fresh and great quality , again just an awesome way of life , it aint easy , but definitely worth it , a huge Hello from Perth Australia
I have never heard of a convertible freezer. I'm just curious what brand and model your new one is. I deffently need one. Thanks for sharing. Big thumbs up..........
It is an insignia ' bought it from best buy. Ordered it, took about 5 days to get it.
you are going to have to build a walk in freezer/refrigerator the way you are going
It is in the plan to build a walk in fridge. Probably next year
Just a thought, grow your own feed? ( corn, soy) You have good fields for it.
I've learned that no matter how many pigs or cows you raise that there will be somebody that will by it. l raise 12 to 18 pigs every year 6 at a time and dad will raise 6 cows and it seems that no matter how many animals you raise that there will be people who will buy them. Thanks for another great video
Consumers have no idea how much it costs to grow an animal for slaughter. Thank You for sharing
For reference, how long will all that meat hold in a freezer? I was always under the impression 3 months tops for meat, but maybe that's just store bought and not vacuumed sealed.
Vacuum sealed it is good for a year or more.
Look at all that meat, it´s very very good to have this for the winter to come, and also know where your meat comes from, nothing extra weird in those, wonderful, I liked to know this even that the costs doesnt match in my country, it is still interesting :)
HA MAN I LIKE YOUR VIDEO. I HAVE ONE THING TO SAY, WHEN YOU STORE YOUR HAY IN THE BARN STACK THE HAY ON THE EDGE NOT ON FLAT SIDE. YOU GET VENTILATIONS.
No wrong was done to the hogs in taking their lives, their destiny as meat animals was fulfilled; same with the beeves. No guilt, ever!
Good advice! And I can't eat commercially produced ag products (Roundup makes me ill) and was so lucky to find a farmer who produces pasture raised, chemical-free beef (I get milk from his dairy) and now his brother is producing pastured pork. I had to buy a freezer, too! It is now almost half-full of beef and I have yet to pick up our half pig! Hope it fits! And the price per pound was much less than what I would pay at my organic food market - so I have not only more meat, but cuts that I could not afford to buy. This amount of meat will last us a year (or more).