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Post by carragheendexters on Jun 4, 2014 7:14:55 GMT -5
Are they Holstein/Brangus Holly? They look a little dairy, long faced and longlegged, and with the black and white. The pasture doesn't look too bad, the photo must have been taken at a good time. In marginal parts of Australia the cattle never fatten, these are usually what we sell for export, an Australian would never eat beef like that, (usually Brahman) LOL. WOW! That equates to $22/kilo for ground beef (what we call mincemeat here in Australia. We can buy that for between $5-$10/kilo, that is about $2.30-$4.50 for mince. We Australians can sometimes pick up sirloin steak at the supermarkets for about the same price as your ground meat.
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Post by hollydzie on Jun 4, 2014 8:19:24 GMT -5
Hi Louise, they are NOT Holstein. They are Angus and Brahman and what ever else throw into the mix. It is amazing to look at the cows out in the fields here. Sometime they are even referred to as Florida Bone cows. You can see why. Florida is only second to Texas in cattle production. They are bred and born here and then shipped to feedlots in the Midwest. I find the entire thing rather unappetizing. We are so thankful to be able to raise our own beef. There is also a Bison farm not far from us and the price of there meat is outrageous. I love my little easy keeper Dexters.. Holly
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Post by hollydzie on Jun 17, 2014 17:42:02 GMT -5
Just picked up my beef today. I got filets, ribeyes and chuck roasts the rest is ground beef. He hung at 343 and I got back 206 lbs of beef. I assume it would have been more had we gotten ribs and other stuff. But we just got clean meat. I find it interesting what people use to figure weights. We had no live weight on this animal, just hanging. I think what you get back weight wise would depend on your cuts. We took no organs, no ribs. Nothing but neat clean meat. I cant wait to see what it tastes like. Another interesting thing to me is how much smaller in size everything is...LOL
Holly
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