How We Raised a YEARS WORTH of Meat! (Beef, Chicken, & Pork)

Thanks for watching! Here's our video with more info on how we raise and process our meat birds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FHoMociC-g&t=2s

For those of you on less than an acre. I grew out 50 meat chickens this year just in a chicken tractor. I moved them along where I was wanting to put a garden. That garden did AMAZING this year. I can't grow out any bigger animals so I buy grass-fed beef from a local dairy. They grow out their males and sell the meat to their local community.

Thanks for the video! We raise almost all our own meats, the exception being the occasional steak, we haven't ventured into cows yet. We do the dual purpose birds, we sell our chicks/eggs and always end up with extra roosters, so we started doing our own meat as a side effect to being chicken farmers. We then got into meat rabbits. We live in NM and have no pasture, just sandy lots, so the meat rabbits were a good transition animal for us since they don't require a ton of roughage and have a really good turn around time compared to many animals. We just did our first set of pigs this spring, and it was certainly a learning experience, a do-again, but with some changes. I love being able to raise our own meat and not purchase from the store. Especially with COVID, having a reliable source of ethically-raised meat was a tremendous relief.

We've pretty much always processed our own hogs and beef, and my dad has always said, it's expensive hamburger, but super cheap steaks! We got around the need for a freezer by looking at the weather window and killing beef when there's going to be freezing temperatures at night to hang for a couple weeks. It's always been a bit of a headache though finding that weather window so this year we have actually built our own freezer with a rail, and we're so excited to use it and not have to worry about the weather any more!!

Thank you so much! It's so hard to find out about the costs of raising and slaughtering animals and this was a really concise explanation.

I appreciate your videos so much. It's like getting advice from a trusted neighbor. You make things so accessible and REAL. I've tried to convince my husband to raise meat chickens (we already raise chickens and ducks for eggs) and cows...I'm going to make him watch this video. Cross your fingers!

Tearing up the pasture is what pigs do best. If you have a spot of land that needs clearing, then pigs do it really well.

We've only raised two pigs once and had a lot of apples in Fall. I would make a slop out of oats, apples and goat milk. They loved it and we loved the meat when we harvested them.

Good info! Thanks!

we did raise and process our own chickens this year, same birds as you, we purchased half cow and a pig locally, pig cost was on point with your brake down not sure on the beef though I think it ended up being $3.50 a pound for Angus, I think we did well by your video, Deer season is right around the corner also. Great video !

Good information.

Love this video! So much good info! 👌

What an educational video! Thank you!

Very interesting Jill thank you very much

Such practical, easy to understand information and I appreciate that you covered multiple meat sources. Thank you, this was a great video!

Thank you Jill for breaking down everything forr us, very Helpful information .

Good info Mrs Jill! Thank you for sharing the cost

Thank you Jill and Christian for the great educational videos!! God bless!!

this is amazing thanks for the inspiration

Thanks, a lot of good info!