Nathan and I were invited to buy into a cow at the end of this year by our good friends the Arnetts. We will end up with 100lbs of alfalfa pasture fed beef - pretty exciting.
One of the others cows was taken to be slaughtered and the hide and head were left, unwanted. Nathan thought that he'd like to have them and so that morning Scott and Nathan came home (Dec 7) with a whole cow head and hide. They worked on the head that morning and then Nathan worked on the head for the following few days. I had never seen anything like this, not even close...gross but also totally cool. I even got to help a bit...as much as I wanted to anyways.
Nathan has got the hide looking very nice and has salted it...come spring or maybe even in 2014 we'll probably be trying to tan it. It took a lot of work - something that Nathan is not afraid of.
**Hope the pictures don't mess you up too bad**
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