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Butchering the Cow (a how to)

Step1

Wait until fall to butcher your cow. At that time, you won't have to deal with the flies, and the meat won't spoil as quickly.

Step2

Have the cow castrated if you are going to raise it for meat. If not, be certain to remove the testicles soon after slaughtering it. This prevents the meat from being spoiled.

Step3

Do not feed the cow 24 hours before butchering.

Step4

Try not to frighten other members of the herd when you capture the cow you are butchering.

Step5

Avoid butchering the cow within view of the other members of the herd. (be considerate)

Step6

Decide what parts of the cow you will save. As Dynah Geissal wrote: "Ears and [the] tail can flavor a pot of beans...hooves can make gelatin...stomachs can hold blood sausage…lungs are edible, intestines can be used to make sausage casings or cooked in some other additional dishes."

Step7

Shoot the cow with a .22 caliber gun at the point where lines from eyes to opposite ears intersect, approximately the middle of the forehead at a point above the eyes.

Step8

Sever the arteries and main veins of the throat by putting the point of your knife into the skin and cut outwards.

Step9

Use a meat saw to remove the cow's head.

Step10

Cut slits into the Achilles tendon and insert a gambrel, a tool for lifting and hoisting your cow carcass.

Step11

Remove the feet at the joint.

Step12

Hoist the cow into the air with a winch.

Step13

Begin the major part of the butcher process by using a short pointed knife to cut into one of the slit in the Achilles tendons, and cut a line down the center of both legs to the center-line.

Step14

Slice down the body to the cow's neck.

Step15

Hold the skin at one hand and begin skinning the cow where the leg meets the centerline. Work from the center out.

Step16

Keep the hind intact if you intend to use it, but if not, do not worry if you cut portions from it as you're working.

Step17

Leave as much fat on the cow as you are able. The fat helps make the skinning process easier.

Step18

Continue slicing between the hide and the skin, and work around to the front of the leg. Work your way to the tailbone, and give the tail a sharp pull. This will separate the vertebrae.

Step19

Skin the rest of the cow's body. Raise the cow higher to make it easier for you to do your work. Work on the outside of the foreleg to the inside. Remove the large intestine from the body. Cut around the anus, then pull the out intestines and tie them off. Use a short, pointed knife to cut down the belly. Hold the guts back with your hand as you do so to avoid puncturing them. Cut down to the sternum through the fat of the belly, then cut the meat between the legs. Remove the penis if the cow is a male.

Step20

Put a large container beneath the body to catch the guts, and sever any tissue attaching them to the body cavity. Pull the anus from the inside of the body and out. Take your time separating the intestines form the body. Do not rupture the bladder. Lift the intestines and bladder out from the body, and lift the stomach out as well. Strip away as much of the body fat as you can, and put the intestines and whatever you wish to keep aside in a separate container.



There ya go, this is what country folk do.

You got step 1 totally wrong.
Step 1 ----> Walk across pasture to neighbors house and aks if you can borrow George.
Step 2 ---> Get George alone in the pasture and tell him how handsome he is
Step 3 --> Flirt with George while explaining that it would just make you so very grateful if George would butcher your cow.
Step 4 -> lead George to the cow.
Step 5 ask George if he would like a cool drink while he is butchering the cow.
Step 6 take enuff time fixing drinks that George has finished butchering cow by the time you return
Step 7 reward George

There are 2.8 seconds between each Eye blink

At the turn of the last century (1900) the silk of the Golden Silk Orb Weaver (Spider) was harvested in Spider Farms to make surgical silk.

The height of this industry was during World War One.

One such “Spider Farm” was located at Kathryn Abby Hanna State Park located in Jacksonville Florida. You can still find large numbers of these spiders, the silk of one web can stop a bicyclist dead in their tracks.

and when I hit the first web and stopped and I realized it was a web it made me scream so loud and high only the K-9 dogs could hear me when it happened.

*Shudder*!

When we were young my father made my younger sis and I watch a cow being butchered by a chainsaw! (yes, we were from the country). I now only eat fish, and was a lacto ovo vegetarian for like 11 years! hehe

Dear GOD! If that had happened to me, I would have screamed, too. And then promptly dropped dead on the spot. Major heebeejeebees! <shudddddddders>

Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

Vancouver Island is the world 47th Largest island. That Doesn't sound too bad

The greek playwright Aeschylus, consulted an oracle which said he would be crushed from above. Supposedly, he moved to a small hut near the sea where there were no large buildings. As the story goes, he was killed when a passing eagle, clutching a turtle mistook his bald head for a rock and dropped the turtle on top of him, as he tried to split the turtle open.