Thread: The price of meat these days is a joke.

Originally Posted by XR500

Last beef heifer we had homekilled using a homekill outfit (as opposed to killing and breaking it down ourselves) using the meatworks rate last October, worked out at $11/kg average across all cuts. Not cheap, but definitely cheaper than the supermarket.

If we do it ourselves (2 days for 2 people on the knives and mincer etc) it obviously comes down a lot more.

Last animals we sent to the works in March (2.5 year old beef heifers not producing decent milk) yielded $5.80 a kg on the hook. So you can see homekill does increase the meat cost somewhat.

$5.80 a kilo is your costs, or a price you were happy to let those meats go?