Episode 15 S1-15
Survival Butchery
Featuring:
Day After Disaster Ch 15
Special Guest:
Jim Kazlauskas

Fastest Way to Process an Animal On the Go:
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Get the hind quarters first. Then if time allows, get the backstraps. Then if time allows get the front shoulders.
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Do not skin the animal.
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Do not gut the animal but this is risky, why?
When you gut the animal you get a chance to inspect it for unnatural foul smells or diseases including:
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Kidney spots, masses or worms
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Liver spots
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Lung spots
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Masses in, unusually shaped, or swollen reproductive organs.
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Tapeworm and heart worm
Useful Parts of an Animal:
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All the organs are useful or edible:
heart - an edible, tasty meat that can sometimes be tough
liver
kidney
stomach = tripe
intestines - use as water carriers, sausage skins, use in stitching or
make snowshoes from them.
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Bone - marrow is very nutritious and bone can be used to make knives, needles and much more
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Meat is all edible. Put it on ice for a week to age it and get rid of gamey flavor.
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Neck - Smoke it and then boil it with beans, yum...yum
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Brain - useful for preserving hide.
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Tendon - use for stitching or cordage.
Why is Butcher an Important Skill to Know?
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You can spoil the meat by cutting open the wrong thing in the guts.
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You won't know the problem signs in an animal if you don't practice.
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You cold waste a lot of meat with bad butchery practices.
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you should know where meat comes from and be able to be self-sufficient if you needed to rely upon your survival skills.
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When hunting if you shoot an animal in the guts you can ruin the meat.
Featured Quote From Today's Chapter:
“She wanted to take a moment to revel in its glow, but she was being pushed, physically and mentally, to a limit that she had never known.”

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