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The Ultimate Guide to Home Butchering: How to Prepare Any Animal or Bird for the Table or Freezer
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With more than forty years of experience butchering domestic animals, game, and birds, award-winning outdoor writer and photographer Monte Burch presents this complete guide for butchering many types of livestock or wild animals. Learn how to butcher cows, chickens, goats, hogs, deer, turkeys, rabbits, and more, with simple and easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and illustrations. Burch also provides recommendations on which tools (knives, paring knives, meat scissors, meat grinders, shrink-wrappers) to use for the task at hand. He lists detailed instructions on how to butcher each animal and use each part, so nothing goes to waste. Now you’ll be able to prepare meat for salting and curing, freezing, sausage making, and more.
From field dressing, skinning, and boning out a whole deer to efficiently plucking ducks and bleeding out hogs, The Ultimate Guide to Home Butchering is the one-stop guide to help you become more self-sufficient in preparing your meat for your table.
With more than forty years of experience butchering domestic animals, game, and birds, award-winning outdoor writer and photographer Monte Burch presents this complete guide for butchering many types of livestock or wild animals. Learn how to butcher cows, chickens, goats, hogs, deer, turkeys, rabbits, and more, with simple and easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and illustrations. Burch also provides recommendations on which tools (knives, paring knives, meat scissors, meat grinders, shrink-wrappers) to use for the task at hand. He lists detailed instructions on how to butcher each animal and use each part, so nothing goes to waste. Now you’ll be able to prepare meat for salting and curing, freezing, sausage making, and more.
From field dressing, skinning, and boning out a whole deer to efficiently plucking ducks and bleeding out hogs, The Ultimate Guide to Home Butchering is the one-stop guide to help you become more self-sufficient in preparing your meat for your table.
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288 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2012
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August 24, 2025
Packed full of information
Ideal for new hunters, fishermen to lifestyle block owners. Very informative and easy to read. A must read to process the animal you have raised for you and your family
Ideal for new hunters, fishermen to lifestyle block owners. Very informative and easy to read. A must read to process the animal you have raised for you and your family
February 3, 2023
Finally, a book to the point but detailed enough
Getting a book that takes the idea you might just be a novice and brings you visually into the picture.
Getting a book that takes the idea you might just be a novice and brings you visually into the picture.
March 12, 2025
Very easy to understand and full of helpful information. Highly recommend for any homesteader looking into butchering their own meat.
April 18, 2016
The processes and procedures of butchering and processing everything from small games and birds to big game and livestock is covered in this home guide. It is a useful tool for hunters, preppers, and back to the land seekers who want to control the quality of their own food. There is a chapter on food safety. This work should be in any outdoorsman's library.
March 14, 2013
I read this for research for a character. The pictures aren't as growdy as one might expect. I am probably not the best judge of the efficacy of this topic since I have never knowingly killed an animal...
August 11, 2014
Very informative and useful. Welcome to Earth, humans.
April 24, 2015
Photos with colour. Includes hunting meats. Relatively recent book. 2012
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