Growing up I helped my uncle with his rabbits....slaughter was 2 nails in a 2x4 mounted on a couple of posts, knock out animal, hang by Achilles Heels, skin, and starting from the crotch, slit down the center of the animal to the neck.....letting the entrails fall out over the back of your hand as you used 2 fingers to keep the entrails off the knife edge as you cut down the outer skin, letting the contents fall as they may and then tarting at the crotch, complete the plumbing removal.
Fast forward....Urban native, very limited farm experience, married, 4 kids, trying to raise a family and looking for ways to eat good at minimum cost, liked experimentation, friend at work had a farm and raised Bovines. Plan is to go to farm, shoot selected victim, drag to nearest tree and dress him out......just like I did the rabbits.
Only one problem with that.....rabbit weighed a couple of pounds, Bovine, 6-700 give or take. Everything went according to plan till I got to the slit the skin and letting the entrails fall. I was standing in front of the animal, like I did the rabbits, and cut pretty fast down to the ribs.....what I didn't think about was the weight differences between the two operations and...........
Out comes the stomachs and as they do, the ribs didn't provide adequate support and as they rolled out, at least one of them burst on it's way toward the ground................spraying me head to foot with the contents........was out in his pasture and only water was a 7 gallon water bottle like used in office water coolers, no rags...........
But that's only part of the story.....one of these days I'll tell you about trying to get several hundred pounds of hot beef (it was August in Texas besides animals temp at the time) cooled down in 3 domestic (maintenance type) freezers (not commercial large scale units designed for the job), and then the packaging process with no meat processing equipment, just a few knives of assorted functions.......
I never deer hunted so I didn't have those animal processing skills like you folks that do.
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