How many pounds of ground beef per half a cow?

Answer 1

Your question lacks detail to properly awnser...

How big is the cow? are you making the whole freaking cow chuck or are you getting some steak and roasts out of the deal? Is this lean, extra lean, or have to wring it out to eat it?

In either case a 1200 pound cow should yeld approx 450 - 500 pounds of beef. ground or otherwise..

Answer 2

That really depends on what other cuts of meat you are getting from that quarter carcass, or if you're getting the whole quarter to be turned into only ground-beef and not just a few pounds. It also depends on the dressage percentage of that cow (or "cow") and how much meat we would expect to get off of her (or it).

First of all, let's do the math to estimate how much meat is obtained from this 1200 lb cow. The hot-carcass weight of a slaughtered cow is around 50%, which translates to around 600 lbs hanging/hot-carcass weight. From there, let's assume the dressage percentage is 50% of that, so 50% of 600 lbs is 300 lbs. That three hundred pounds of meat is divided into quarters, which would be around 75 lbs per quarter of meat.

If that quarter was made into ALL ground beef, that would be 75 lbs of ground beef. If, however, there were other cuts made and chosen from that quarter, then the ground-beef portion may range from 60 lbs to 1 lb.

Answer 3

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