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Slaughter and Clean a Cattle - PEP BB animal.straw.butchercattle

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Animal Care.

For this BB, you will slaughter and clean a cattle.

Related Articles:
- Killing and Butchering a Cow
- How to Slaughter and Dress a Cow for Year-Round Meat

Before Animals Feed Us, Animals are to be Raised with Care and Dignity:
- Silvopasture: A Sustainabel Way to Raise Large Livestock
- Advice for Raising Dairy Bull Calves for Meat
- Raising Grass-fed Beef
- The Beginner's Guide to Raising Backyard Beef

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For this BB, the minimum requirements are:
-Start with 1 Live Cattle
-Killed in a humane manner
-Processed and properly stored within an hour

To document your completion, provide proof of the following as pics or video (less than two minutes):
-Living Cattle
-Cattle after slaughter, depicting the method used
-Organs separated into suitable for human consumption / not suitable for humans consumption
-Cow hide

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Amanda Wright

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posted 2 years ago

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I tried to get a picture of sweet Lily before we butchered her but the lighting was pretty terrible. She was humanly harvested using a .22 rifle and a very sharp knife. I am so lucky to have an amazing community of homesteaders who have like interests and a desire to participate in all of my crazy antics. It doesn't hurt that my neighbo, pictured, has 20 years of experience running a butcher shop and harvesting animals. He aims the gun and I wield the knife. Now, I don't have a picture of the hide or all of the offal. My son was our photographer for the day and he got lazy as the harvest went on. Plus, the stomach and intestines were carted off very quickly by the tractor for composting. I did saw off her horns and boil them to remove the core. I also skinned her head and made some amazing bone broth from it, as I do with every animal I harvest. I have tons of video but no way to edit it (that I know of). I did get a picture of one of the bowls that I placed some offal in and cooked as soon as I got home. We hung the meat in our shed, which we turned into a cooler with a coolbot.

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