[rawfeeding] FYI -- %'ages ina 65 pound lamb

Hi all -- One of the supppliers I use just got lambs from an Amish
farm near her. After butchering the first one she weighed all the
various parts. She did not bone out the meat, but just as an FYI
this is what the lamb ended up being comprised of (I think it is the
one I am getting...) (Nicole gave permission to cross-post -- she is
also on this list...):

The six-way cut "with everything" includes 2 rib racks, 2
hindquarters, 2 shoulder/foreshanks, and the neck. Extra bits include
a goodie-bag of lower legs/feet, tail (these sheep are not docked,
it's a full tail), rather sizable testicles, and pizzle; the whole
head, rinsed and bagged; tripe, emptied and bagged; organs (lungs,
heart, liver, spleen, kidneys) bagged - and I will remove the
gallbladder, nobody wants to eat that and it will spill icky yellow
bile all over; and intestines, emptied (mostly) and bagged. The hide,
if you want it, will be rolled up & bagged. The wool is not too bad
on these lambs, it's about 1" long, and it wouldn't be unreasonable
to think that an experienced prey-eater would consume it, at least
the thin belly-hide, but I haven't tried it on my dog so couldn't say
for sure. The wool will be dirty; easy enough to brush off the worst
of it, but not so easy to wash.

On to the data: I weighed all the parts and turned them into
percentages, .... So here's what a 56.69# lamb contains:

47.5% Raw Meaty Bones
14.1% stomach contents and fluids (approximate)
13.8% head, lower legs, tail, "boy parts"
7.5% intestines (contents emptied, for the most part)
7.3% hide
5.8% organs (lung, heart, spleen, kidneys, liver)
4% tripe (contents emptied)

So, if you eliminate the 41% of the animal that is usually considered
"waste" (head, feet, digestive contents, hide), then your percentages
go
like this:

83% Raw Meaty Bones
10% Organs
7% Tripe

Kathy R.

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