How much meat should I have in my locker from a 1000 pound steer?
This is the type of question that is asked most frequently by locker
patrons. Many people, now using frozen food lockers have little conception
of how much meat, the number of pieces, or the type of cuts that
they should expect from one carcass. Neither do they realize what happens
to a large part of a steer before reaching the locker. Actually a
1000 pound steer will yield approximately 180 pounds of steaks of varied
kinds, 180 pounds of roast and pot roasts, and 90 pounds of stew
and ground meat making a total of 450 pounds of table meat which is
45 percent of the live weight of the animal. A comparable shrinkage
occurs when a hog or a lamb is butchered.
