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    Default Who Processes their own meat?

    I farm and process hogs, chickens, cattle.
    I have goats but only ate 1...LOL--while he was delish I don't intend to process more. I have Boer goats and use the milk for my natural soaps to sell and then sell the kids to market as meat goats.

    At the market I trade sausage for rabbit...which is delish. I also trade for ostrich and such every now and then and buffalo and lamb when it is available.

    Just wondering who does processing and what do you process?

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    We do ....
    one deer in the fall, and chickens currently.
    Have done cows, pigs, rabbits, fish, small game, etc.
    Have froze most of it. Some canning. Still want to try some venison jerky. Maybe this fall, after I get the recipe from one of my son's.
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    Not much we haven't done (never done an ostrich, but I've eaten it). . . cows, hogs, chickens, turkeys, rabbits, squirrel, goats, buffalo, deer, racoon, possum, various fish, turtle. . .

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    I do! Dh and ds get several deer each season and I cut it up for the freezer. I also can it if we get a couple at one time.

    I've also done squirrel, rabbit, pork.
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    i process my own rabbit(i raise them for meat), also process my own chicken. I have done fish and turtle never for myself have i dont anything larger. Now i have helped with a hog and a deer but never for myself. i am going to try my hand at a hog tho~

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    We are raising our first steer(we are fractional owners of a milk cow, and the steer is her calf) . We'll slaughter around Oct. Dh will be learning much!!
    Our cow is pergnant again, so might raising another steer soon.

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