Home Kill And Home Butcher A Lamb!!

[@markh4013]

This wouldn't have raised so much as an eyebrow 100 years ago. People today have lost touch with how their food arrives on their plate.

[@doingoutdoors875]

I know. It’s very sad. I posted a picture of Charlie with the deer that he’d shot on a facebook page that’s all about owning woodland. Only posted it as people had been talking about shooting air rifles/shotguns in their woods only to get negative comments and told it was a disturbing image??? Then my picture/post removed. Obviously these folk that own woodland aren’t that bothered about managing it properly or eating some of the best meat around!

[@markh4013]

​@@doingoutdoors875 When you posted the short on here I thought "here we go" Images like your lads deer will always upset some people, and you'd be wasting your time trying to convince them otherwise. In reality Shooting is just like fishing,without people doing either sport the fish/wildlife populations would be in trouble.Anglers and Shooters are some of the best conservationists there are. Involvement at a young age ensures it carries on in future. Pretending it doesn't happen or getting triggered helps neither man nor beast.

[@doingoutdoors875]

@@markh4013 very well said! 👌🏻

[@avfc2025]

Maybe it’s you who’ve lost touch with compassion. Yet if someone kills a dog you be up in arms you are pathetic

[@tony1kenobi468]

It’s not an easy watch but you do show kindness and respect to the animal that mass produced livestock certainly don’t get. I hope you keep showing us these informative videos!

[@doingoutdoors875]

It definitely wasn’t an easy thing to do emotionally. These animals are well loved by all the family. But the reality is, if you want to eat meat something has to die. Thanks for your support. 👍🏻

[@nathanjohnhendry9529]

Brilliant to watch! The animal had a great life well fed and look after and you did it justice with your butchering skills! Well done!

[@doingoutdoors875]

Thanks Nathan. 👍🏻

[@nathanjohnhendry9529]

@@doingoutdoors875 I look forward to seeing your next video. It would be good to know how many meals and how you cook all that meat. Best wishes

[@jammydogger1]

Thank you for being so honest about how the food chain works, how to raise beasts for food, and knowing you won’t waste any of it.

[@doingoutdoors875]

Thank you ☺️

[@james3418]

i recently gave up meat mainly for animal welfare and environment reasons. it was sad to see sheepy pass but if this is how all animals were raised and dispatched id be happy to eat the meat from this sheep. Subscribed 👍

[@doingoutdoors875]

Thanks James. It’s never good to see something die but we do try and give the best life possible. 👍🏻

[@deanwitt7903]

Great video . My attitude is that the animals look after us in the end so I’ll look after them and respect them while they are alive . On a side note your videos will be better without the music .

[@doingoutdoors875]

Thank you ☺️. You’re probably right about the music. 👍🏻

[@mybestlifefortherestofmyli7137]

May I ask why refrigerate the meat after slaughter? How would you know it is a bad piece of meat, sick animal, or poisoned? How do you store the other cuts that you didnt cook? Did you freeze it? How long can it stay in the freezer before you cook it? Vacuum sealed correct? Im learning. Thank you for your video. Want to start a farm myself

[@horseblinderson4747]

Generally when they're that young the only thing you'd have to worry about is worms, sheep parasites don't cross with humans typically. You also generally don't have to worry about parasites so long as you're giving them a decent life. That means minerals, and more to eat than just grass. You at least need alfalfa or clover too. But like goats sheep will definitely get down on some trees and other browse as well. As far as refrigerating it's best to let them hang for a few days in a 35-45 °F ice box if you can typically that's not always possible if you don't have a spare. One parasites and bacteria, but it firms the meat up and makes processing easier. Back to the decent life you'll also get a way better quality animal giving the minerals better forage and supplementing w a little grain say 4-8 oz a day. Where I'm at between mineral, alfalfa and supplementary barely the costs in that are equal or less than the animal itself maybe $200 for a year khatadin generally will go for about $200 here at 6 months old, a bigger Cheviot or something similar to what this gentleman had for like $300+ It's definitely worth it in the quality of the product to go that extra mile but also to give the animal the best life it can have.

[@jamzam2621]

Great content brother. Thnks for the share😊

[@selfrealized]

Great to see that ❤ I too want to grow my own lambs

[@cindieryan446]

Hard to show the reality but we needed it. We moved to be more self-sufficient and appreciate your video.

[@doingoutdoors875]

Thanks. Definitely not easy, but if we want to eat meat it’s necessary.

[@amybradley4606]

Great to see Charlie so interested and involved. Does he (or the others) get upset when the animals are dispatched? We are raising a batch of meat birds from eggs at the moment and I’m dreading dispatch day, I think I’ll be emotional and my daughter definitely will be.

[@doingoutdoors875]

It’s very difficult to dispatch animals that you’ve reared yourself as there’s always some emotional attachment. I think we all had a lump in out throat when the sheep had to go, but if you want to eat meat something has to die and I’m happy that our animals have had the best life I could give them. Good luck with your chickens I’m sure it will go smoothly. The meat birds we have just done gave some excellent meat. 👍🏻

[@amybradley4606]

Definitely agree. Part of the reason we are doing it is to truly get to grips with the realities of meat eating. The other part is feeling so uncomfortable and disgusted with the way meat is raised, I don’t feel I can buy into that any longer.

[@BIGXHEROS]

1:31 Rule 1: Don’t fall in love.

[@jasonlowery1369]

Nice video. I can imagine that it would be a bit emotional but that's why you wanted to raise your own meat - quality meat for your family and quality life for the beast. An older lamb is a Hogget - should have the front 2 adult teeth in. At the start you looked as if you expected to hear a buzzer and see the nose light up.

[@jamesbond4981]

When I used to work in a butchers we used to saw down the middle of the spine to make it more manageable to cut in to the various parts whilst it was suspended on the hooks.

[@doingoutdoors875]

That makes sense. It was quite awkward lifting as a whole. 👍🏻

[@Liam-tj1ic]

I can see now why farmers care for there animals so much it's not fair but that's life well filmed ❤.

[@TERRYWORLD_]

Sheep didn’t even know he was finna get his wig split😂

[@punjabseth260]

👍👌

[@gon6009]

great video - you make it look so easy

[@doingoutdoors875]

Thanks 😊. It’s not as hard as you might think.

[@MichiganArsenal]

Awesome man thanks for the video

[@mariajackson7024]

Hi Benj, Great video as ever, how many kilos did you get out of him in the end? Would love to have a small holding like you all, your living my dream, until then I will just watch you go from strength to strength, happy days, keep smiling x

[@doingoutdoors875]

Thanks Maria. Well we got just over 24kg of finished product. So not too shabby! Obviously there was quite a bit of bone that was cut out, I think about 5kg so his overall weight would have been 29kg ish 👍🏻

[@ApiaryManager]

@@doingoutdoors875 Bones are always useful for the dog ;-)

[@pterodactylman136]

Somehow i thought the kill process would be more complicated.

[@Motaki666]

Really informative video. He looked so heavy when you were lifting him! Can I ask what kind of gun you used - was it an air rifle?

[@EnormousClock]

Think it’s great to show your children where meat comes from and the right way to do it.. some people will be squeamish about such content but are happy to munch down on meat without second thought. Also, at parts where you’ve put music in over the top it might help to rebalance your audio a wee bit so we can still hear you clearly when you’re explaining things. Also would be interested in seeing some more dishes you put together from this fella! Full farm to plate journey is great

[@doingoutdoors875]

I’ve had negative comments before about shooting and eating deer, the same people will happily buy meat from the shop 🤷🏼‍♂️ I made the music a little louder to drown out my ramblings 🤦🏻‍♂️ bad call. Will definitely get some dishes on the channel, especially once we have loads of home grown vegetables to accompany the home grown meat. The Missis is cooking a lamb neck stew as I type this. Smells good 👍🏻

[@EnormousClock]

@@doingoutdoors875 captions could be the way to go then, some of us enjoy the ramblings!

[@spacehoppermark6161]

Good work

[@doingoutdoors875]

Thanks

[@JussaJoksunen-y6l]

IS that gun 22lr? What kind ammo do you use?

[@user-te4jw8gk7h]

And she does the test😮

[@jamessykes3498]

What gun did you use to kill him?

[@m4xl3ss]

Good Video!

[@doingoutdoors875]

Thanks. 👍🏻

[@yochanantov5490]

Good vid. Need to turn dwn the music to hear you.

[@natnat417]

You can't kill an animal while eating. That's not ethical. Cheers 🍷🍾

[@ssri1675]

D&D

[@paullucas9131]

Hi Benj, sombre but part of the circle of life. Can I ask are your butchery skills self taught or are you a butcher by trade. Keep up the great work, Basil 👍

[@paullucas9131]

Ps. ever thought of running workshops??

[@doingoutdoors875]

Quite right. No I’m not a butcher, I’m an electrician by trade. Any butchery skills I have are self taught with a little help from KZbin. Running workshops is quite a good idea as I’ve had a few people ask me to show them how to dispatch and butcher animals 👍🏻

[@paullucas9131]

If ever you do, count me in. Cheers Basil

[@doingoutdoors875]

Will do. Thanks Basil. 👍🏻

[@stigof5b]

Hi benji great work butchering your own lamb just wondering what is the legality of it all with the ear tags etc thanks

[@doingoutdoors875]

Sheep need ear tags by the time they are 9 months old, killing your own animals is ok as long as it’s only eaten by you or people in your household and you have the correct means to kill without suffering. Hope this helps. 👍🏻

[@kianrahnama6625]

به به گوشت بره.

[@chrishollins1318]

great video, but the music is so loud i cant hear what he is saying

[@doingoutdoors875]

apologies for the music. I'm learning

[@ingweking8748]

Good video but the music is annoying

[@doingoutdoors875]

I know, I’ve had a few comments about the terrible music.

[@Fredom2406]

Kolayı varken neden zorlarsın ki kessene boğazını bıçakla

[@Powertripbiglittle]

useless information didn't show or explain anything

[@doingoutdoors875]

I’m glad you liked it 👍🏻

[@Cooper_sky]

Kind sir, please use gloves while butchering !

[@syedmoamberraza1490]

read scientific reason of slaughter in islam i dont convince you with any of my word but will hooe atleast you will read that carefully

[@ingweking8748]

Mind your own business

[@nextbanker9538]

Islam and science 😅

[@syedmoamberraza1490]

@@nextbanker9538 as i said i will not say a word regarding religion but without knowledge you cannot convince someone.

[@mybestlifefortherestofmyli7137]

You mean islam the pagan moon god. Joke. Do your research, Islam was started 600 years after the death of Christ. How could he be The one true living God.

[@JesusisaMuslim]

Thats certainly not the halal way. Fear God.

[@doingoutdoors875]

Quaking in my boots!

[@JesusisaMuslim]

@@doingoutdoors875 You will be on Judgement Day.

[@doingoutdoors875]

@@JesusisaMuslim 🤣 I’ll see you there 🤣🤣

[@Cooper_sky]

Jesus is a muslim? Are you insulting christians?!

[@Blackops_industrys]

There's always one 🙄

[@MohsinWho]

Try halal slaughtering the cleanest meat

[@ebozloriginal]

It’s too cruel