What do you feed?

[ciaBrysh]

For your boneless beef and pork sources?

I originally had a decent deal with my local butcher, but his boss turned it down so we only get the chicken for crazy cheap. These guys want $3 a lb for boneless beef or pork and meanwhile they will rarely ever have it!

I can really only afford to spend about $1-$2 of meat a lb but I had no choice but to order from hare-today...which it's base price is cheaper for the trim, but with shipping it comes out to the same price which to me is ridiculous.

Anyway...Just curious what do you guys use as your boneless beef and pork sources?

[Liz]

We have so many to feed that heart is a boneless staple. We get beef heart about 3 times per year, pork heart, turkey heart all the time, we also feed lamb lung, pork roasts when I can find a super sale. Fish, my guys love their big sardines and other kinds of fish.

[shellbell]

Beef = heart, lung, spleen (all free from someone I know who butchered 10 steer), and I buy kidney, liver, pancreas
pork = ribs (I get them for a decent price on sale), pork butt (only when on sale), kidney and liver (got this from a friend who feeds raw and has a butcher contact)
tongue from both would be good too, but I have not yet been lucky enough to find it for cheap
oh and I feed a lot of beef tripe

[Scarlett_O']

We have so many to feed that heart is a boneless staple. We get beef heart about 3 times per year, pork heart, turkey heart all the time, we also feed lamb lung, pork roasts when I can find a super sale. Fish, my guys love their big sardines and other kinds of fish.

Same here!!!HAHAHA

Well we dont feed beef heart as often....but pork and turkey heart are a main staple..and lamb lung as long as we can keep it coming!!

[xellil]

I can get beef heart pretty cheap. I would love to buy tongue but dang I could just as cheaply buy ribeye steak, I think.
I also buy pork loin when they mark it down next to nothing.

[ciaBrysh]

How much do you guys pay for beef heart? My butcher I think wants like...2.50-3 a lb for it...beef is insanely expensive here since...well...there are no cows here ha ha

[xellil]

How much do you guys pay for beef heart? My butcher I think wants like...2.50-3 a lb for it...beef is insanely expensive here since...well...there are no cows here ha ha

Well a lack of cows would do it! People get it alot cheaper than me, but I just got some for $1.29 a pound - in Indiana I paid $1.79 a pound. Not as many cows in Indiana, I guess.

[ciaBrysh]

Man I have to find some good beef sources...this is sad...I'm tired of the yellow poop!

[twoisplenty]

The cheapest I can get beef hearts is $3lb so its not a staple. We got given 250lb of ground beef so the dogs have been getting quite a bit of that lately, plus we feed pork shoulder.

[sozzle]

Well you guys get meat alot cheaper than we can in NZ, unless you buy in bulk or know someone in the trade. I've just worked out in US$ that it costs for ox/beef heart and lamb heart we pay US$7.50 per kg which = US$3.75 a pound.

Today's rate: NZ$10.00 = US$8.36