On the Tuesday after Christmas, Dad and a friend butchered our two rams, Izzy and Boots.
On the last post, Bye-Bye, Boys, I said, “That pretty much says it all.” It actually doesn’t. On New Year’s Eve, the friend appeared again, this time with a meat grinder in tow. We kept the neck roasts, a leg’o’lamb and a steak, but the rest of the cold-aged meat was passed through the grinder and came out as ground lamb.
Progression of Events:
![Dad cuts the fat off a piece of lamb meat to prepare it for grinding](http://redeemedhomestead.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_0188-300x225.jpg)
![Lamb meat before grinding](http://redeemedhomestead.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG_0189-300x225.jpg)
Then it was ground.
![Lamb meat after grinding](http://redeemedhomestead.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG_0195-300x225.jpg)
Then Mom vacuum-sealed it into neat two-pound packages.
![Neat two-pound packages of ground lamb](http://redeemedhomestead.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/SUNP0131-300x225.jpg)
In all, we got about sixty-two pounds of meat off of our two rams.
That says it all.