I have always wanted to buy a 1/4. Enjoy!

We bought a quarter in February, and have already placed an order for a half next February. The meat is so lean and healthy (no antibiotics, grass-fed). Our cholesterol numbers are awesome! We supplement our cow with venison and chicken (chicken from our neighbors - the same ones who give us eggs).

We've been buying half a cow for years now. I ran out ground beef one time and had to purchase it at the store. Never again! DH kept asking me what was 'wrong' with my spaghetti sauce. LOL

we lived on a farm in my early childhood my mother would care for the "calves" intended to be butchered for beef, even in the late 1950's mom's preference was grass fed veal so youngish calves that only ate grass she would have been a perfect fit these days she also gardened organically in the fifties and early sixties my grandmother fed her roses egg shells and coffee grounds - weekly i had a very interesting idealic childhood

Do you have power outages? If so, get a good generator that will keep appliances,etc. running and you don't lose all that freezer full of meats you have bought.

Always wondered how those 1/4 cows could walk...

Another recommendation is a freezer alarm. We have them on all of our freezers, after losing all of our venison and ducks earlier this year. https://www.amazon.com/CDN-TA20-Visual-Refrigerator-Freezer/dp/B000I62FQI 

Our freezer is in the garage, I waited to purchase the meat until it started getting cold her, now of course we are setting record warm temps but we're good. We have been here 11 years, we had our first outage about a month ago. We energies was here and had us back up and running in 1 hour and 20 minutes. It was a squirrel. We do have a back up available to us in the event we have any problems.

I am checking into a small generator just in case.

Our freezer is in the basement, but the plug was dislodged without our knowledge. That thermometer/alarm is a good investment to protect $500-$1,000 worth of meat. :)

Cynic - I think it's like quarter horses.

Hi 2.25 acres,

Do you have neighbours with freezers?

Maybe buy a bit larger/(higher quality?) generator among 4 - 6 of you, as 6 - 4 hour stints of power during 24 hours would keep the freezers in good shape, and if there's a general power outage most workers aren't going to work and could shift the generator house to house.

When I took a generator house to house, 30 miles away, during a wide-area power outage, 40 years ago, folks wanted me to power the furnace, as well, but almost all have a direct line to the main box and I was afraid to, in case the main switch should get pushed to ""On", to cause trouble for power workers who believed that they were working on a dead line.

It seems to me that, should local codes allow, it would be a good idea to have a "push-and-twist" plug in the line from the main box to the furnace, to allow the connection to be broken, thus allowing hook up to a generator.

Though I didn't charge, some offered some money, I took a bit for gas, gave the rest to the United Church where I was clergyperson, as they were paying me and offered a substantial portion to the local guy (different church: Presbyterian) who'd loaned me the generator. He told me to give it to his church, and I demurred, saying that he went there oftener than I did.

About 3/4 of the Presbyterians joined the Methodists and the Congregationalists when they formed the United Church of Canada in 1925 ... but about 1/4 continued as Presbyterians. We are somewhat brothers/sisters, under the skin.

ole joyful