Tell me if this is good. I have a friend who knows of some one going to kill an old longhorn and keep the head and horns. He said they were going to skin it and put by the creek to get rid of. I want to go get some food. What should I do?

 Quote: Mitch Kuta

Tell me if this is good. I have a friend who knows of some one going to kill an old longhorn and keep the head and horns. He said they were going to skin it and put by the creek to get rid of. I want to go get some food. What should I do?

Be veeerrry quiet and don't let your dogs know where you are - they might want to eat some too..

 Quote: Jan Williamson

Be veeerrry quiet and don't let your dogs know where you are - they might want to eat some too..

ROTFLMAO

I am wanting it for them. I want the heart and other insides. My freezer is packed now as we just found some good sales. Got some dated chicken backs and necks for 20 cents a pound.Just wondering if for any reason this would not be good for the dogs

Mitch, what comes to mind is age of the steer but I don't know if that matters or not. I'd also want to be sure the steer wasn't diseased in ANY way.

that is also my concern. I read somewhere about things in older animals can't remember what. It is just old and they feel it is ready to go.

Have them shoot it close to the road so you don't have to pack the meat so far, right next to your truck is nice. If they hang it to skin it it's easiest to cut the meat from the carcass while it is up, otherwise cut all the meat from one side, turn it over and work on the other side. Two ways you can deal with the meat are to: 1) Take gallon size zip lock bags and just cut the chunks off the carcass small enough to go in the bags, freeze it and cut it up as you feed it out. If you cut and bag it at the kill site you will have less mess to deal with at home, a piece of plywood on the tailgate makes a good cutting board; 2) Cut each of the large muscles off in one piece, put them in tubs or large coolers and cut it up and divide it into daily portions and pack them in quart size bags. Make sure you have a medium to large size SHARP knife (I like a 6" blade), take your sharpener with you.
The largest muscles will be in the hind quarters, along each side of the spine, neck, and the shoulders. Get the heart, liver, and kidneys. The tripe spoken about in the other posts that the dogs are so fond of is the third stomach, dogs like all of them though, don't take the contents with you.
Give yourself plenty of time to do the job. The sooner you can work it up after they shoot it the better. Flies will start laying eggs on it within an hour. It would be best if you start just after he stops kicking.
I hope I haven't grossed you out. You will be able to get a lot of meat if you decide to do it. Just be prepared before you start.
The only area I can think of for concern if the animal appears healthy is that there may be tapeworms encysted in the liver. With deer that is the case. When it is eaten raw they hatch and infest the host. Cooking kills the cysts. I don't know if an old beef would have them or not.
Too bad your freezer is full.