EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

We picked a nice steer before we shipped last fall and fed him out at the house. On feed 120 days, 1550 lbs live weight, 962 lbs hanging weight, aged 21 days. Filled up my big chest freezer about 650 lbs of meat, and it sure is good. We are set for the year I think.
"T-Bone, before
(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/pwt3/022-6.jpg)
and after, a nice chuck steak
(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e103/pwt3/017-13.jpg)

love it

Man Paul I sure wish I lived closer I would sure be stopping by the house around dinner time  8)

Dang that looks better than my left overs I had for lunch ;D

Yep!  Hard to beat a good homegrown steak

Looks tasty.

I've got a handful of questions as this is something we are interested in ourselves.

I am assuming these pics are recent.

You picked him out in the fall of 2010, fed him out for 120 days, aged for 21.  That's ~ 5 months. We are in the end of the 8th month of 2011. What happened from Fall 2010, until March 2011. Was he turned out on pasture?

If he was turned out on pasture until the spring, at what weight did you start feeding him out?

Was he fed free choice, or a percentage of his body weight?

Was he fed a commercially available feed, or something grown on the ranch?

Sorry about the twenty questions, but as I mentioned, it's something we are interested in, and I'd like to have some basis to work off of.

Sounds like its time for an ETHD group BBQ at your place. ;D

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Chris, he was left in the pasture with a set of yearlings untill middle of Feb. when he went on feed. I just added it up and he was on feed for about 150 days. I put him on a comercial starter ration for the first 21 days and then a comercial finishing ration after that. Free choice BMR Sudan round bale at all times. I bet he weighed about 1050 when I put him on feed

Worked him up to 25lbs of feed per day with all the roughage he wanted. This steer got stale about 40 days out so I turned him out for 10 days and when he came back in he really hit the feed bunk. Hauled to the processer the middle of July.

Processing cost was $675.00, feed cost was about $6.00/day.

Do you reckon it's safe to say he would have brought ~ $800-850.00 before you started feeding him?

so roughly $3.65 a lb using Chris' $800 purchase price figure? Feed costs so much lately I have to think you can buy beef for cheaper than you can feed it out. We bought a steer a few years ago and fed him out and processed him at 1200lbs and that was the toughest son of a gun I have ever had. Maybe it was what I was feeding? It broke me from wanting to do that again. But that steak sure looks good. ;D

GAS???? are you kidding me??? you ruined a GREAT hunk of meat on gas  :D  :D  :D ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D ;) ;) ;), wheres the wood???

Yes it is cheaper to go buy it from the store, but he knows exactly how that steer was raised and fed out. ;)

Put some oak under that steak

Thanks a lot Paul.  Now, I'm hungry.   ;D

Chris, yes about $800 opportunity cost for a steer like that.

OLY, I was to hungry to wait on the wood. I have both, gas and wood smoker.

Cost come out about $4 a pound I think. But I get it feed how I want, taken to weight and age I want, dry aged the way I want, and cut the way I want. Not many folks get to eat hamburger from an aged beef, you can't believe how good the hamburger is let alone the steaks.

You never know what you are getting in the store, I know where this steer was born who his sire and dam are every bit of medicine/vaccine/wormer he got from me.

I hope you know I was just messing with ya Pual  ;D  ;D  ;D >:(  >:(  BUT REALY, LOL.

We can probably buy pork from the store a he!! of a lot cheaper then hunting it ourselves (dog feed, vet bills etcs).

We could for sure buy vegetables from the market as well (maybe not cheaper) but a he!! of a lot less work.

BUT their is a PRIDE and JOY involved in being able to do things on your own that just cannot be bought you cannot put a price tag on "KNOW HOW".

Fending for one self is rewarding at all levels.

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thats good lookin right there, reminds me of old times when my papas slaughter house was still runnin, after it shut down we had to buy from the store

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4 a lb is cheap. Sure it is high for burger but look at the steak cuts. A good steak cut is 10-20 a lb. Wouldnt mind buying a 1/4 from someone local.

what kinda price can you put on being self sufficient , and knowing what you are eating ?   it's worth alot more than 4 $ a pound .  ;)