I'm a butcher at a mom & pop shop in South Florida. We usually bring in subprimals to break down, but we recently struck a deal with a local Florida pig farmer, and today she brought us our first whole.

Broke it into halves and quarters today & removed the leaf lard, tenderloins, skirts and vacios but tomorrow we'll get into the nitty gritty.

Haven't had this much fun at work in a while, figure I'd share with the community.

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Disclosure: We are Zhengye Machinery, sharing a workshop overview of our cattle-processing equipment.

This walkaround shows an empty rotary cattle slaughter box. The camera moves around the circular support frame, hydraulic valves and hoses, side cylinders, and the head-positioning assembly with blue contact pads. Other views show the control panel, electrical cabinet wiring, end opening and internal steel ribs.

English narration and subtitles identify the visible components.

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I’m getting into processing my own deer this year. I bought a grinder with sausage stuffing attachments. Should I a sausage stuffer as well for snack sticks and hotdogs and brats and stuff?

never seen ribs look like this. I think it's folded over but I don't see any bones. Ive already frozen it so I can't take it out and unfold it or get a better look, but I want to get an idea of what i have going on before i commit to thawing it. I just... dont think i've ever seen a rack of ribs folded up, if that's what this is.

Hey guys, I got 10 pounds of 95/5 ground beef from my local butcher and noticed it looks to be a little fattier visually than I’m used to for leaner ground beef. I cooked it and there was grease pooling on the bottom of the pan which there isn’t that much when I cook 96/4. I know I should have weighed the grease to verify but it didn’t cross my mind before I dumped it into the collection jar. Can anyone look and tell me if this visually looks like 95/5? Thanks