Every year my neighbor feeds 2 beef from spring to fall, keeps one for himself and splits one between 2 daughters. And every year I give him a hand on killing day--everything up until we get them hanging. After they hang long enough to be butchered, he always invites me to pick over the leavings. This year I brought home 2 large bags of scraps and bones--and some strip loin and sirloin steaks.
Saturday, I put one of the bags in the freezer and took the other inside. He's pretty careful when butchering to take only the meat--adds the required amount of fat when he grinds the hamburger. So I just got out my filleting knife and took all the meat left on the hard fat and bones. It took me 3 hours, but I ended up with 10 pounds of basically fat free meat. I divided that into 6 bags and froze them. Now when I make Roxy's supplement "stew" to add to her dry dog food every day, it will be extra meaty. The bones I boiled down, removed the bones, and reduced the liquid into bone jelly which also goes into her food--healthy, healthy, healthy.
And I still have enough scraps and bones in the freezer for, hopefully, another 10 pounds.
It's a fair amount of work, but I figure that the old hound is well worth it to me.
Gary
Saturday, I put one of the bags in the freezer and took the other inside. He's pretty careful when butchering to take only the meat--adds the required amount of fat when he grinds the hamburger. So I just got out my filleting knife and took all the meat left on the hard fat and bones. It took me 3 hours, but I ended up with 10 pounds of basically fat free meat. I divided that into 6 bags and froze them. Now when I make Roxy's supplement "stew" to add to her dry dog food every day, it will be extra meaty. The bones I boiled down, removed the bones, and reduced the liquid into bone jelly which also goes into her food--healthy, healthy, healthy.
And I still have enough scraps and bones in the freezer for, hopefully, another 10 pounds.
It's a fair amount of work, but I figure that the old hound is well worth it to me.
Gary