Would you raise an animal like a sheep, pig, or cow to slaughter for your own consumption? ?

Question

or have you ever done this?

Answer 1

never have, but its a great idea..and much healthier, you would know what the animal had been fed on, and that it has been raised in good clean conditions, unlike the battery farm style and bags of synthetic foods stuffed with anibiotics that mass produced animals are raised on

Answer 2

ye  its cheaper an y not.its guna get killed aniway so u mite aswell do it den u get all its meat an milk.instead of buyin it.

Answer 3

We have 4 cows (steers) at a friend's place (he has 20 acres out of town).  They are eating the grass and he feeds them special sweet feed every day so they'll get good and fat.  Around Thanksgiving, we'll load up one or two in the trailer behind the truck and haul them to the butcher shop down there.  They slaughter, clean, cut and wrap in meats the size/thickness/type you ask for.  Like half steaks 2" thick and 1/4 roasts about 3 lbs each, and the rest 85% lean hamburger.  We pick it up wrapped and already frozen.  We'll probably get about 800 - 1000 lbs of wrapped meat per steer for a total cost of about $2.50 per pound.  Now we just have to find enough family members with room in their freezer to take some.  The butcher keeps the bones and "innards" for whatever he wants to do with them.  (glue factory?)

Answer 4

My husband really wants to get goats for milk and cheese, and perhaps one day for meat.

I'm not so keen on this idea, so I don't think it will be happening in the near future. Good luck.

Answer 5

well no and yes i wouldnt do cows pigs or goats or anything else but i would do chickens for the eggs

Answer 6

Yes, my school had a farm & part of our science module was to raise/monitor a chick for a couple of months, at the end of the module our teacher killed our chickens (in front of us) & we had to gut & pluck them.

Answer 7

No, that would be a pet.  I'll buy my meat in a grocery store.  I had a pet rooster, once.  My uncle killed him and they had him for dinner.  He(the chicken) was mean, anyway.

Answer 8

I would like to raise a cow and try to do it the way they make kobe beef.

Answer 9

no

Answer 10

I would like to, but don't think I could slaughter it. would get too attached.

Answer 11

Yep, as soon as I get a house with a nice big garden, I'm planning on having some chickens for eggs and possibly meat.  And also a couple of sheep or goats or something, which ideally I'll have slaughtered to stock my freezer.  Saves money - and you know exactly how good a life the animal has had before you eat it!

Answer 12

If I had a farm or ranch, then why not?

Answer 13

We've had a friend of the family raise a black angus cow for us.  We then slaughtered it.  It was just as good, if not better than any beef you could buy at the grocery store.  The best part is that you know what the animal was raised on.  Ours was on a holistic diet and we didn't have to worry about it being injected with any growth hormones or steroids.

Answer 14

I never have.  Most of us do not live in situations where it would be legal or feasible to raise farm animals and do not have the expertise to do so.  That is particularly important when it comes to slaughter.  That is a specialised task and cannot be left to amateurs like me who might cause unnecessary suffering to the animal and who do not have the expertise to deal with the carcass safely or to dispose of the residual bits and pieces.

Your question was 'Would I?" so I'd have to say probably not because farms do the job far more efficiently, cost effectively and, on balance, humanely.

Answer 15

i don't think i would. i would find it difficult to slaughter and eat the animal after taking care of it.

but it is a good way to know where your meat is coming from and to know that it is well looked after.

Answer 16

No, I'm a vegan I don't eat animals.

Answer 17

Yes, have done it.

Watched two women hoist a pig by its rear legs using hemp rope rigged between two cottonwood trees, position galvanized wash tub

below squealing head, and slit the throat using Arkansas toothpick.

I'd begun the first grade that year so watched carefully as the gutting process began.  Nothing was wasted.  All cut meat was dropped into the bloody tub.  Later that week I was introduced to tripe as a food by

the same ladies.  I learned dog was a good meal too.  My first paid jobs came during 9th grade; I shot feral cats for paid bounty (had to show a pair of ears to collect) and herded sheep one winter.  Santa Claus  gave me Mexican cowhide saddle for pasture chores.   My last name has

been on a line of dairy product from milk to ice cream.

Answer 18

Given half a chance, yes. Thousands of people keep chickens and rabbits for that very reason - FOOD - and the only thing stopping them from going to something bigger is the lack of space and opportunity.

Answer 19

If I had to, I would raise the animal/s. But I couldn't kill them myself - I would have to get my husband to do that job - I couldn't kill the animal unless there was absolutely no other choice and it was a life-or-death situation.

Answer 20

My bf lives on a farm and they have goat kids and sold a few kept one and ate the rest. At the minute they are fattening pigs up to eat. They have been brought up like it. I am not sure myself if being with the animal everyday I could kill it. I love all their animals but I think  its something you would get used to.

Answer 21

I would certainly raise animals for my own consumption.  My dad used to. At the moment I have 4 chickens buts its only for the eggs so I dont think that counts cos they behave like pets.