Thread: Butchering

Anyone who knows Mr H. Will know that he is a sucker for punishment but lucky enough to have the good hunting on the doorstep pretty much. So he took down a doe two nights ago in boggy rainy conditions and somehow managed to get it into the boot of the car because he wasn’t going to manage the trailer in the mud, plus he had to get it over a cyclone fence and don’t ask me how he did that!

Anyway, he brought it home and still in torrential rain, hung it in the tree where it stayed for a couple of days. Was going to leave it until tomorrow to get the meat off the bones but didn’t feel like sitting around tonight so sorted it. Carcass went off to a chap down the road, shitty meat was minced for chooks, the rest was portioned into back steaks, dice, roasts, stir fry, schnitzel and the rest minced.

Mr H. Was concerned that leaving the beast hanging in the rain for two entire days would be detrimental to the meat but it didn’t seem too bad though I think I prefer cutting up meat that has somewhat dried on the outside. The upside is that for the season, hanging a beast in the rain is preferable to having it flyblown. I’d normally butcher it straight away but was busy those two days.

Any thoughts on this?