My first CL succession =)

[Elliehanna]

sweet! yea I have like I said about 30 lbs in the deep freezer, excluding the 3 catfish I need to toss...speaking of, tomorrow is trash day and I can just run out to the can and toss them in it!!! yay lol, but yea in that lot of meat I have pork, beef, a thing of fish some chicken AND a turkey from like 2 years ago I never made haha....

how do you suggest I cut up the meat I mean I have all this frozen stuff rangeing from 1lb to 5lbs then the turkey >.< should I thaw it and cut it then repackage it or should I just wait and thaw it and repackage it when I am about to use it?

hehe, yea Goren is lanky still, at 3 and 25 inches to the shoulders and only around 60 lbs >.<

I hope Logan stays kinda small, his dad was 80 but his mom was only 45 so I am hopeing for maybe 50, they were both kinda chunky though so maybe he will be in the 40s :D

[ciaBrysh]

This is what I do,
I thaw out a crapload of whatever meat I'm going to use, separate it into different meals (generally about a week or twos worth, depending on what I'm doing, when I first started I only did one week at a time until I became more confident but remember to always be prepared to have to switch it up if hes got loose stools or something)
and freeze it.
You can thaw out and refreeze as many times as you need thankfully (I just learned that lol)

and ps do you have a scale to weigh the meat? Trust me you'll never look back once you get one!

[Elliehanna]

ok sounds good, yea I didnt know I could refreeze it as much as I want, good to know :D

I have a scale and I know its ganna come in handy, I donno how I am ganna package the meat yet, maybe wax paper between 1 days worth in a container or something, I don't wanna have to use a ton of freezer bags...but then again...its for a dog and I can always reuse them till they fall apart lol since its not like I am trying to keep freezer burn out

you agree though I should just toss the catfish?

[ciaBrysh]

ok sounds good, yea I didnt know I could refreeze it as much as I want, good to know :D

I have a scale and I know its ganna come in handy, I donno how I am ganna package the meat yet, maybe wax paper between 1 days worth in a container or something, I don't wanna have to use a ton of freezer bags...but then again...its for a dog and I can always reuse them till they fall apart lol since its not like I am trying to keep freezer burn out

you agree though I should just toss the catfish?

Dont quote me on this but I believe that catfish is one of the less useful fish proteins. Also not too many raw feeders *I* know of feed fish at all since you can just supplement with fish oil and vit e pills (they have to go hand in hand apparently)
Personally, I can't stand fish lol and unless the fish is gutted or you would do it yourself you wouldnt be able to feed it for awhile anyway since it would probably still have the organs.
Thats just me though, maybe someone else could give you better answers

[Elliehanna]

true, they take up a ton of room anyhow, I think I will just toss them. I plan on feeding him fish if I go fishing and catch them, I love fishing, I hate fish though haha, but if I catch some panfish I can always just fillet it and give that, he loves fish, I have given him live fish before and he will just eat the fillet parts and play with them >.< yea I know its bad for the fish but ya know they are fish and all lol

[ciaBrysh]

Bah, I have no patience in fishing personally. and dead fish creep me out.
Oddly enough I'm glad I don't have to feed fish because I can't seem to get it cheap ANYWHERE here....the irony? I live on a freakin island lol
I just went straight from turkey necks to pork ribs which were much more reasonable.

[Elliehanna]

see no meat is really cheap here, the average cost of a pound of any meat is about 3 bucks here, so I am hoping I can get some free stuff from the butchers around here, I posted the adds on CL and kijiji, and a site that someone suggested from CL and I hope I get a bite since its just at the tail end of hunting season (I really wish I woulda posted a month ago) on Thursday when I go to the butcher I am ganna ask for scrap meat as well and say as much as you can give me lol and I hope I hear from the other butcher so I can stop by there on Thursday too and look at chicken, I am ganna see about a local grocery chain a few towns over, I know they sell bison so they might actually give me scrap meat from there too if they cut up anything, worth a shot, I just have to get over my shyness and ask people >.<

[kathylcsw]

I feed fish to my dog. I have fed her canned sardines and mackeral. She has also had trout that I got from Craigs List. My motto is that no meat goes to waste! Getting minerals, vitamins, etc straight from the source is always better than a supplement IMHO. You may want to post and see if anyone feeds catfish before you throw all that away. That is a few meals worth of meat.