'Patch' Pie.No we haven't used his byproducts in a pie (yet), but we have tried some Scotch Fillet steaks, a roast, mince for Spagetti and sausages which were enjoyed by all.
My brother decided to use the data I previously reported to show how Patch has been utilized and here is the result.
As you can see most sausages and mince meals, but that's what happens to off-cuts.
We weren't given the chance to try any offal portions and really don't have the experience to 'enjoy' them.
'Patch' redux'Patch' returned from the butchers today.
He's now resting in a 500L freezer.
He's disassembled as follows:
Blade Steak 800g x 11, 600g x 6
Round 1Kg x 10
Rump 600g x 12, 700g x 9
Topside 700g x 12
Scotch Fillet 500g x 12
Fillet 700g x 2
T-Bone 600g x 15
Roast 1.5Kg x 8
Mince 600g x 75
Sausages 900g x 28
Total ~143Kg
Obviously there was quite a bit of bone in the four quarters.
Also any 2nd class cuts return as mince or sausages.
People ask "How we could eat an animal we named?", but my response is,
"How could you eat an animal you don't know?"
We know he was well feed during his life, was never mistreated, in good
health, pleasant company and surroundings and friends to talk to,
4-legged and 2-legged. He was pasture feed, given oaten hay and barley
feed during the winter months to help keep him in good condition.
As opposed to feedlot cattle who live in a crowded bare earth
enclosure, feed some sort of meal to help them gain weight and given the close
living conditions probably need more health care to ensure they aren't
striken by communal diseases.
So unless your prepared to become vegan, which would you prefer?
P.S. They are bags of wool fleece behind the meat on a table-tennis
table.
Polo PatchesI was wandering around a paddock on Saturday with a mattock looking for
Scotch Thistles to decapitate.
Normally you can spot these by the different shade of green. At the moment, with the good rains we've had, it's like an Eskimos 100 different shades of white except they're green here.
However some patches I investigated had no thistles, but instead a pile of 'paca poo.
Alpacas tend to defecate in the one spot unlike sheep who scatter their shit all over the place. This spreading we're trying to control by using 'cell grazing' techniques using electric fencing to confine most of the sheep to an area for a week at a time. Unfortunately the solar powered energiser doesn't worry some lambs enough (wool being an insulator) and they wander a bit, but the majority of the sheep stay within their bounds.
The color difference isn't as vivid as reality, but here's an example.
The Patch.
The reason.
