Butchering Lambs

Each year we butcher a few lambs at home.  In case you are wondering, I dispatch the lambs mercifully, without stress. 

 

The lambs are hung from hooks on a 2x2

After skinning and gutting them, I hang the lambs in the garage and then cut and package the meat the following day.

It was a cold day, but when you are working on a hot animal your hands stay warm.

 

Once I have skinned the animal to this point I tie a rope around the hide

 

And back up the tractor.

 

The hide peels off cleanly with much less effort - this is trick that a lot of deer hunters use.