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Take the weight of the carcass (or carcass weight) and the overall weight of the hide, viscera, head, tail, ears, legs and excess fat, add them together and you should get the liveweight of the butchered animal. Another way is take the weight of the meat you got off of that cow, and multiply by 50%, because the rule of thumb is that total meat is 50% of the liveweight of that animal.

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Amount of what? Weight or cost? Please be more specific in this question.


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Find someone in your area that has chute (Pearson is one manufacture of chutes who may give you a contact) with a scale and ask them if you may bring your cow over to have it weighed. After the cow has been weighed that is it's "live weight".


How can you take mince out of a cow?

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