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This guide takes the mystery out of butchering, covering everything you need to know to produce your own expert cuts of beef, venison, pork, lamb, poultry, and small game. John J. Mettler Jr. provides easy-to-follow instructions that walk you through every step of the slaughtering and butchering process, as well as plenty of advice on everything from how to dress game in a field to salting, smoking, and curing techniques. You’ll soon be enjoying the satisfyingly superior flavors that come with butchering your own meat.

Review: 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 still wish there was more about butchering in it but then again it is called “basic” butchering. And I’ve yet to find another book which deals with DIY butchering as well as this one does.

John J. Mettler, Jr., D.V.M., is a retired large-animal veterinarian in upstate New York and has written several books on animals, including Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game and Horse Sense. An avid sportsman, his appreciation of the noble turkey was the inspiration for his most recent book, Wild Turkeys. John has written on a broad range of veterinary topics for various magazines and has written a veterinary column for American Agriculturist for over 20 years. He has professional memberships that include the New York State Veterinary Medical Society (past chairman), the American Association of Equine Practitioners, the Society for Theriogenology, and the American Veterinary Medical Association.