Bulk Meat Orders
Bulk beef
$4.50/ lb Hanging Weight
1/2 side of beef is approximately $1500
Available in wholes, halves, or quarters
(see below for more details)
Bulk Pork
$4.50/lb Hanging Weight
1 pig is approximately $1100
Available in wholes or halves
(See below for more details)
Bulk details
When you order your meat in bulk, not only is it cheaper than buying in smaller portions, but you have the added convenience of simply opening your freezer whenever you feel like a steak or a burger. You have the luxury of specifying what cuts you would like to receive when you order a whole or half. Do you like a lot of roasts for entertaining and leftover roast beef sandwiches? Or do you prefer to have most roasts ground up for lots of backyard barbeques? The personnel at the slaughterhouse are very happy to explain the different cuts to you, but if still overwhelms you, we will be happy to ask them to just give you the standard cut the first time, which is a little of everything.
Beef is available about 3 times a year while pigs are only butchered in the fall.
We charge based on Hanging Weight. Also referred to as carcass weight, this is the weight after the carcass is skinned, gutted and the head and legs have been removed. The slaughterhouse weighs the carcass as a routine measure during processing. We can keep our price low by charging based on the hanging weight because it saves us the time consuming job of weighing each individual steak, roast or package of burger.
Our price includes standard cutting, but does not include specialties such as patties, shaved steak or sausages. There will be an additional charge for these (based on what the slaughterhouse charges us.)
The chart below explains what the hanging weight is compared to the live weight of the animal and the amount of meat you take home, for the example we used a beef steer. The live weight to hanging weight ratio is slightly different for each species.
Live weight of animal- 1100lb
Hanging Weight- 550 lb
Minus 1/3 lost in boning, cutting and shrinkage- 183 lb
Weight of the meat you take home (cut and wrapped)- 367 lb