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Since this is a 'results' thread I thought I'd follow up with a couple more photos. This year our old FoodSaver vacuum sealers weren't working any more so I got a Cabela's 12" "commercial grade" vacuum sealer to package the meat. I got it on sale and it works great!

Another years worth of fine elk steaks and sausage! Tomorrow we'll be making knapwurst German breakfast sausage, and chorizo Mexican sausage.





Every year I hang the butchered out backbone and leg sections from trees near the house so that birds can use the fat, meat and marrow. It's an important source of protein and all kinds of birds use and pick it clean by the end of December. We regularly get Steller's and Western Scrub Jays, Black-billed Magpies, Common Ravens and Crows, Clark's Nutcrackers, Hairy, Downy and Lewis's Woodpeckers, Mountain and Black-capped Chickadees, Red-breasted and White-breasted Nuthatches, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Dark-eyed Juncos, White-crowned Sparrows, Spotted Towhees, Audubon's Warblers, Wilson's Warblers, and even Red-tailed Hawks and Bald Eagles have used the boned out carcasses. It's great to watch them all up close. Here's one of the Clark's Nutcrackers just a few feet from our dining room window today.





P.S.: You probably shouldn't try this if your homeowners association would disapprove.