Self-Sufficiency
Last week 
After we completed the butchering process and had all the ground meat grind up we decided to start making
@shalomacres famous summer sausage.We used beef, venison and lamb for the sausage, and lots of it.
The Grinding set up
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We used around 150 LBS of venison, 100 LBS of beef and 50 LBS of lamb.
We used 2.5lbs casings and filled them to about 3.5lbs. @shalomacres had an awesome pneumatic stuffer that worked great.
Altogether we made about 280lbs or so of the 2.5 casings and around 20lbs of the "little smokies" (kinda like a large slim-jim).
As we were filling the casings the boys went out and hung them in the smoker.
Here is a video explaining the ends and outs of
Be sure to check out
@shalomacres post and videos none of this would have been possible without him.@shalomacres making sausage video
@shalomacres smoking sausage video
Here's a link to the butchering post
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