Re: Re: Going to the auction

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>How cool is that?! How did you ever locate a meat auction? I'd

>love to find one of those around here somewhere. (And believe me,

>DH would too for the bugetary reasons.) It all sounds very yummy!

>Enjoy your duck eggs!

You might look in the yellow pages under " auctions " . Actually I find ours

online, but a lot of people talk about it so I knew it existed. I googled

under " auction washington livestock " or something like that. I think most

states have them. Really, there is a whole " underground farming community "

that still exists ... I try to support them (and to ignore the local mega marts)

as much as possible.

Seeing the range of animals there ... some of them were obviously sick ...

makes me less and less willing to just buy meat in a package. A lot of

the folks there were buying animals for the market (esp. the Mexican

meat market, where goat is considered a nice delicacy) and the farmer

I bought my last beef from was saying they will buy really sick animals

to sell the meat. Also they told me that the " slaughter beef " were mainly

old dairy cows or sick cows. Huh. Who knows what goes into your

hamburger?

Also, if you buy a whole cow and are there when it is slaughtered, you

can walk away with a LOT of cow innards. Now you need an extra

freezer for these ... we are talking a 55 gallon drums worth at least ... but if

you

are feeding a dog or chickens this is basically freebies.

-- Heidi Jean