What Happened to Our Steer Whopper?

come on really whopper just farted at me morning buddy what's what's up buddy where you going reckon he's hungry well what's up guys this is daniel from arms family homestead and uh today's the day today is the day that whopper is going to the processor it says last last day on the farm and he literally just took off running ran straight to the barn and uh i can shut the gate on him much different than some other animals in the past and if you can't tell the humidity in oklahoma is extremely high it's going to be a scorcher but it's early this morning we're going to get whopper separated obviously already got him separated that was the easy part then we'll move him down through the barn over to the corral i haven't hooked up to the trailer or anything yet i learned a long time ago if you're going to be moving animals around if you're going to load animals to leave the farm get them separated put them in the lot then go hook onto the trailer because they're not stupid if i go out there and start hooking all that trailer it's going to get whopper all fired up because if you remember several months ago we had all those we had two show heifers here and anytime we do anything with the heifers whopper knew something was going on and he'd just get all stirred up so we got him locked up and uh now we're just going to get in and move him around to the corral then get the trailer hooked up excuse me man we're going to have a big steer coming through here in just a minute what you got hey don't be hateful quit biting oh that gummit you already hatched babies i don't know well whopper please don't step on the mama hand all right well i need you to come down here buddy it's muddy down there and i don't want to have to walk through it come on come on come on whopper let's go don't step on my hand there you go head on down come on whopper come on whopper you're supposed to take a left left all right wiper we gotta go on around don't get too worked up let's go don't take a left there yeah go come on whopper good boy step one's done let's go hook up to the trailer that whopper in the in the chute here [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so one all right whopper could you turn around for me let's head down the chute come on come on walker you can't go in backwards buddy turn around there you go hey where your butt is i need you to 360. come on don't go in backwards here we go here we go here we go turn around whopper come on let's go now you're going the right direction come on whopper come on whopper rufus whopper's never been in a trailer how's he gonna react come on wiper let's go whopper take your time whenever you're ready come on whopper come on come on come on really whopper just farted at me come on whopper come on one big step one last turd before you go let's go you can do it buddy all right offers loaded it's time to go [Music] so [Music] so [Music] well i guess that's where the story of whopper kind of comes to a conclusion whopper's a good steer we've had him for i think he's about 15 months old something like that i actually traded three weaning age goats for him from with a friend and we raised whopper here on our farm and so a lot of people always ask are they they get upset because because we name our animals that we send to the processor and the main reason i do that is because i don't want my family to lose touch with where our food comes from i totally get it if we had if we had 50 cows and we were gonna butcher one steer every year it would just be off the pasture with the rest of the cows and it wouldn't have a name and it wouldn't be it'd be totally different but we're a small farm operation with just a few animals and these animals come here and we give them all the care they need we give them all the love they need we take care of those those animals we treat them with respect and we know the end result and i want my family to know the end result but it is just it is just the facts of life we eat meat and we know where our meat comes from at least most of it but anyway so the with whopper what we'll do we took him to the processor a lot of people ask why we don't process on the farm i'm not going to be able to handle a thousand pound steel quick enough to take care of it all i'm not a butcher and there are no mobile butchers in our area so you have to take them to a processor but they will process whopper basically what they'll do after he's gone they will remove the hide and the hair and the internal organs split it in half you'll have two sides of beef and they'll hang it in a cooler for two weeks to age the beef then they'll cut everything up so we'll end this video and show you what all we got back from the processor and uh all the different cuts and stuff but uh it's kind of a sad day i'm not gonna lie it is a sad day when an animal that you've had a connection with like that for months literally for a almost a year and a half you know you send them to the processor it's it's not easy but i don't want it to be easy that's the thing i don't want it i don't want to lose that connection with there is a a life that was given to us and put in our control and we took care of that life and and gave that animal all the best feed and care and everything we could and then in the end it goes to uh to feed our families and that's just the facts alive for us so we will pick back up in about two to three weeks when we get everything back from the processor and everything in the freezer normal people just did the other stuff going to pick up me that the processor right aren't you excited we get to see whopper again in a frozen form that's kind of mean so well whopper has returned and we've got one two three four five six seven eight big bags of fresh cuts of meat to get put away do we even have enough room for all of this well that's a good question houston said do we even have enough room for all this well our freezers are pretty full i do have a small chest freezer that's empty but i've been doing some reorganizing and moving stuff around to make it work so the last steer we processed which was big mac we only kept half so we got half of it and i looked while i go and we were down to like 10 pounds of ground hamburger meat ground meat so a lot we got like 200 and something pounds of ground meat off a whopper plus all the steaks i did a few things different i'll go over the breakdown and anyways i'm gonna try to get this packed in freezers before it starts to thaw out all right houston get all those brought into the garage and i'll start putting them away okay that's all you were going to carry was just the sliced up heart and liver cuts huh i don't know where to take this part take it in the garage that'd be a good spot [Music] big old fat t-bones two t-bones per package cut an inch i think i had them cut one inch thick i think i'm not a big fan of chest freezers because things go to the bottom and get lost so i'm just going to take all my ground meat since we have you know 232 pounds i believe of ground we're just going to stack it in here because that's a lot of ground meat i don't have to worry about picking through it to see what's what chest freezers are really good at holding in the cold because when you open the door you don't lose your cold air like you do in a stand up but they're much harder to organize all right well there you have it that's the uh i guess the end of the story for our steer whopper i think i figured it out the other day and he was like 15 to 16 months old and as you saw in the video whopper weighed 1 140 pounds so he's 11 40. and we're keeping all of that here for ourselves i'm sorry for the camera shaking the dogs are wrestling right here but we're keeping all of that because my typically what i'll do is i'll i'll process one and i give some to my my in-laws to my mother and father-in-law and to my wife's brother dusty and his family across timber's bison dusty just had a bison process and my mother-in-law got a steer from someone else so their freezers are full so we're keeping olive whopper and we'll have to probably wait a little while and then start with our next beef steer so we'll get into the breakdown i don't make this too long kind of tell you what we got i'll probably miss something but so whopper was 140 pounds and the weight so they'll when they kill then they'll remove the hide and the internal organs and they cut them in half that gives you a hanging weight so we had two halves of 357 pounds each so 714 pounds hanging weight what we got was 225 pounds of ground did no roast so you won't hear me talk about any roast we still have roast left over from from when we process big mac we don't eat a lot of roast so we did other cuts the ground meat the hamburger meat for you know lasagna and tacos and all those quick meals that's what we go through the most of we did one and a half pound packages and it was cut for 90 10 90 lean 10 fat 225 pounds that's what filled up that small chest freezer now we did a lot of steaks we like to have cookouts we have a lot of family over so we got as many stakes as we could instead of roasts so they're all an inch and a quarter i think i said one inch earlier we have 14 packages so there's two in each packages so 14 packages of t-bones we got 10 packages of rib eyes oh or i'll go on i'm talking to the camera we got some chuck steaks i've never had chuck steaks but there's five packages of those they're basically what you chuck roast out of but they slice them so we can make some sort of steak meal and i did like we got 13 packages of stew meat which two meats like cube steak so a lot of cuts that you know you cut your steaks and you have a piece left instead of making a roast out of it they cut it up into two inch cubes so like shish kebabs or you could use it for stew obviously it's stew meat a lot of different meals we can do in the winter time with that there's two pound packages and there's 13 of those so a lot of stew meat we this year we i had her save the flap and the skirt so that's think about the flap and the skirt are a thin cut of meat along the side of a cow and that's where you get your fajita meat so if you go to a mexican restaurant in order fajitas you know that's a real thin cut and i'm going to try to use that to make some fajita meals i've it's always just been thrown into the grind pile for for ground meat for us but we kept this the skirt and the flap kind of strange names but that's just what they are uh there was hmm it's not easy to read this breakdown they write all over it so i'm sure i'm missing something oh the filet we got filet mignon there was uh they're cut an inch and a quarter two to a pack and i think there's only like four packages of those there's not a lot of filet mignon um so total cost it's um i think they charge 89 cents a pound for processing is what it is there's like a 60 kill fee killing disposal but the total cost was 635.46 so it is it is kind of pricey but when you figure 700 pounds of hanging weight now you're gonna lose the bones and all that so it's not 700 pounds of meat but it's you know it's it's a lot of meat costs a 600 pound or 600 dollars for processing it's worth it that one steer is going to feed our family for probably a year and a half if we stretch it out and since we didn't get roasts and stuff you know we got a lot more steaks and a ton of ground hamburger meat so i'm happy with it i'm satisfied you know i i i wouldn't want to process myself and that was that's another thing i don't like to do the processing you do get attached to these animals a lot of people are like why do you name your animals that you sent to the processor i just i do we do um yes you get attached to them but i know that that that god put that animal on this earth for a specific purpose and it's to feed our family and i'm going to give it the best care i possibly can for the 12 to 18 months that it's with us and we're going to love it and take care of it and feed it and then when it's time comes as time comes and that's just what feeds our family and uh you know what that right there is food security you know we've got beef we've got pork we've got goat we've got a little bit of deer left we've got some sausages here all kinds of sausages there and a whole nother freezer full over there and a small freezer at the shop that's got fish and deer and some leftover pork and all kinds of stuff that's what matters to me if naming my animals makes me a bad person then so be it but i don't have to go to the grocery store to buy my meat i know what this was fed i know how it was raised i know how it was treated and that is important to me i want my kids to know where their food comes from that the food doesn't come from the grocery store that they don't make meat behind the walls in the back of the butcher's off butchers area of walmart that's not where it comes from and i want my kids to know that that's important to me but anyways that's all i've got into the story for whopper i guess while i'm out here i'll say since we're in the warehouse here we have some creek life hats still available we've got a few arms family homestead hats still available some shirts nothing new we're not launching anything yet we will launch in the fall but we do have quite a bit of inventory right now so check that out we get messages all the time about the the creek life merch and i'm not wearing an arms from the homestead hat i'm wearing a granger smith hat right now but hats shirts arms family homestead.com you can check them out there we appreciate it guys that's all i've got for today thanks for watching we hope you enjoyed it y'all have a great day and uh as earl and jimmy can say we'll see you on the next video oh yeah i told you i was going to forget something i did have the internal organs like the heart and the liver i save those have those sliced up and typically i mean we'll eat some of the heart we don't do liver and onions but that makes really good treats for the dogs our dogs get everyone small thaw a package of that liver out and feed it to the dogs i didn't do any bones sometimes i'll keep a huge bag of soup bones you can make you know your own bone broth but those also go really good for dog treats but i've still got some in the other freezer in the barn we haven't used all that so i'll let them do what they do with it but anyways just wanted to add i know i forget something you

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Length: 20min 42sec (1242 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 29 2021