What is the best type of meet to keep on hand, Deer or Beef?

[john1929]

lean or fat?

[rice paddy daddy]

If you live in an area that permits it, keep a few layer hens. Eggs are just meat protien in a different form, and the eggs keep on coming.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

What are you gonna do with it after a power down?

[eeyore]

Do you have the room for the beef and the family to eat it when butchered?

Both are easy enough to dry and smoke.

If you grinding it up, you will need at some fat to the deer, like Matt asked what are you planning on doing with it?

[huckridge]

I agree with rice paddy daddy about the eggs.

"What is the best type of meet to keep on hand, Deer or Beef?" How were going to store this or were going to process as needed?

Canning is another alternative.

[ANVIL]

Beef has more fat. This will become inportant after a SHTF event.

[Grinnan Barrett]

Beef is more versatile when cooking. Using beef is in most recipe books. I love to eat wild game but I would not make it my primary source of protein.

[Boyd]

folks here seem to forget about salting their meat. Grandpa used to talk to us about their "salt" box they kept on the back porch. They would pack freshly butchered pork or beef into a wooden crate with 1/8" spacing between the slats.. and layer the meat with salt. the drippings would come out the bottom, the tops would go to the smoke house, and you rinsed the meat before you did the final cooking, seasoning and eating.

I am looking at a meat cure I got from Bass Pro shops.. for 3$ it cures 100lbs of meat..................................

[tabwyo]

Fat is a precious commodity in a survival situation. Not only just for food but you can do many useful things with tallow. My major concern is a long term (months) power failure. If it can't be preserved or stored at room temp w/o spoiling then it's a luxury item in my opinion. Goats provide a nice fatty milk. A few wet milk goats will provide fat rich milk, cream, butter and cheese. As well as meat when they are to old to be productive from a milk standpoint. Goats are small enough to be consumed readily w/o needing to store huge amounts of meat once butchered. Chickens produce eggs and meat basically on demand w/o refrigeration. Rabbits provide a lean source of protein which can be consumed completely in one meal negating the need to refrigerate. The upside to all of these animals is that you can keep many more on the same sized plot than you can a beef.

[CLT46910]

Another source of meat that people will overlook it the smaller breeds of pigs. Berkshires and Pot Bellies come to mind. Also if you pasture your pigs they will give you better soil to grow things. Just move them from pasture to pasture as needed.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Another source of meat that people will overlook it the smaller breeds of pigs. Berkshires and Pot Bellies come to mind. Also if you pasture your pigs they will give you better soil to grow things. Just move them from pasture to pasture as needed.

We had a small discussion on them pot bellies once

https://www.survivalandpreparednessforum.com/showthread.php?1231-Pot-Belly-Pigs&highlight=belly

[tabwyo]

When the SHTF I am getting pigs. Be damned what the home owner association says about it!!! I live 20 miles out of town in a rural development area on 5 acres of property I own. And these wing nuts want to tell me what i can and cant do on my own property.