My husband wants to buy a whole butchered cow for around $1000. Is that reasonable?

Question

He has a rancher coworker that has offered to sell one of his cows and have it processed for him after he "feeds it grain for several more weeks." I thought this was expensive, but I have never bought like that.

Answer 1

God no. Wayyyyy too expensive. WAY. He's getting ripped off. Why on earth does he want a whole butchered cow anyway?

Answer 2

No that's way too much.

Answer 3

Offer the guy the going price. The market price in the beef. Thats carcaus weight. Then pay the locker to kill and dress it out and you should end up spending a lot more than $1000.00. If it dresses out at 900#,you got a bargain. Just have a place to keep it.

Answer 4

Hmm not sure what the prices are, but my father has done it before, it is great if you have a large freazer, and make sure its cut up into peices. Defrosting meat a seccond time is a Waste, so make sure you have it ALREADY cut up into mannagable chunks so that what you defrost is what you will eat, other wise you can waste it. Cutting frozen meat is Extremely difficult. i guess the price would be on the weight of it? so just keep inmind that its very hard to cut once its frozen and defrosting(to cut it) it and then re-freazing it is a bad idea. $1000 seems alot of money, live cows sell for somthing like $100-200 (bad memory), with the labour of a butcher doing his thing can cost.

Hope it helped.

Answer 5

Can't say without knowing the dressed out weight.

From 1997-2000, carcass beef sold for 0.68 cents per lb.

Certainly it must be higher now.

Even if it doubled, $1,000.00 would buy 735 lb. @ $1.36 per lb.

500 lb=$2.00 per lb.

On average, from my experience, a front quarter weighs about 100-125 lbs.  (2 of those)

Hind quarter about same  (2 of those)

Can be more or less.

Bear in mind you'll have bone and fat waste, although you may be able to resell that to the right processing source for change, so to speak.

You'll have lots of hamburger.

IDK the current price per lb.

You might be able to google "carcass beef prices"