I still have some butcher boxes for sell from my son's show steer. It was grass and grain feed so best of both worlds. We used only the most expensive hay and feed sold at the co-op. He had free choice Sudan and 30-40 lbs of "grain" a day for over a year. Packages are vac sealed so they will last a long time.
I'm not going to get in the middle of the grass/grain debate. But if you just want some good tasting beef, as mentioned on another thread, I've had a steak at just about every overpriced steakhouse there is and nothing comes close to a show steer steak. No producer will ever feed as much high quality feed as a 4h project....and no producer is going to baby a steer like a show steer (no tough muscles on these spoiled beeves).
We spend $2500-3000 per steer just in feed for a year. We aren't trying to make any money off these. Just trying to free up room in my freezer, share some good meat with friends and maybe cover a little butcher cost. I use the prices posted at my local butcher to price out each box based on final weight of each cut.
San Antonio area. PM me if interested.
I'm not going to get in the middle of the grass/grain debate. But if you just want some good tasting beef, as mentioned on another thread, I've had a steak at just about every overpriced steakhouse there is and nothing comes close to a show steer steak. No producer will ever feed as much high quality feed as a 4h project....and no producer is going to baby a steer like a show steer (no tough muscles on these spoiled beeves).
We spend $2500-3000 per steer just in feed for a year. We aren't trying to make any money off these. Just trying to free up room in my freezer, share some good meat with friends and maybe cover a little butcher cost. I use the prices posted at my local butcher to price out each box based on final weight of each cut.
San Antonio area. PM me if interested.
