Butchering Livestock & Game: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Techniques

B.Tolbert: Great info & directions

United States on Oct 17, 2023

Lettuce Chopper: I reed gud, is a gud book!!

United States on Oct 03, 2023

Rizwan Khan: excellent work

India on Sep 07, 2023

LPorter: Gives me the info I need

Canada on Aug 25, 2023

BJ: Sent as a gift for someone taking butchering classes. He was pleased.

United States on Mar 04, 2023

Thomas: I had a basic knowledge This book will help me get some better cuts

Canada on Oct 24, 2022

Dlynnkramer: Just quick glance at the book. Was recommended off living traditions you tube. Wish it had color pictures. But for $10 it seems like a 5 star to me. I’ll probably never use and hope I won’t ever need it. But it’s just one of those inexpensive insurance things I put on the self. If a time comes when it’s really needed it may not be available lol

United States on May 04, 2021

Kamila: Great book for beginners. Descriptions are precise and I found them easy to follow.
Also when I purchased this book I wasn't aware there were recipes there as well!
Tried two and everything turned out perfect.

United Kingdom on Aug 25, 2015

Ladyfly: I think the best way to really find out what works is to get out in the field and get your hands dirty. This book helps you do just that! I felt that the step by step directions are very accurate, but I will say that some things just cannot be explained to people with no experience in this field. The author is a veterinarian which I feel really impacts the way you will look at this book, and at killing for food in general. It really goes together. I love the emphasis the book puts into culling the animal with as little stress and pain as you can possibly inflict. It gives thorough and in-depth instructions on the proper methods and ways to kill the animal and prepare it. Killing animals for food is nasty business and should only be done (IMO) by people with respect of the animal and great thanks. The Native Americans are really onto something with that...
The illustrations are hand-drawn, but I had no problem with that. I did not feel that it in any way detracted from the reliability of the instructions.
Anyway, loved the book and highly recommend!

United States on Jul 11, 2013

TB: I thought I might just comment on the content of the book:

This book tells you how to kill, slaughter, and cut up your meat, and a bit on preparation (curing / salting etc).

I had hoped it would have more on the "butchery" aspects, i.e. cutting up & preparing the meat / processing etc. I'd just bought a fore-quarter from the butcher and I bought this book to help me cut it up, and it wasn't exactly what I was after as there isn't that much on things like curing etc..

I tend to buy pork / lamb by the half animal (much cheaper) and I was hoping this book would teach me to cut it up myself.

Note that its American written so some of the cuts are different to what we're used to in the UK.

Still, if the day came that I was going to kill an animal for my own consumption, I'd definitely want this book at my side!

UPDATE ON MY REVIEW - 3 years later. I've just revisited what I wrote above, and to be honest with a bit of hindsight, this is still the best book on butchering I've come across. With it at my side I've learned how to cut up venison, lamb & mutton, and of course beef. I syill wish there was more about butchering in it but then...

United Kingdom on Dec 18, 2007