Whole cow for sale in North Texas
How much is a whole cow? Here, $5,625 for approximately 450 lbs of packaged beef — about $12.50 a pound for every cut on the animal, from an approximately 750 lb hanging weight. One entire animal from our Jack County ranch, an hour northwest of Fort Worth, cut the way you want it — the way most families with a big freezer, or a friend to split with, buy their beef.
Whole cow · currently $5,625
The whole animal, all of it yours
Every ribeye, every T-bone, both briskets, all the roasts, all the ground. Nobody else is getting the good cuts off your animal, and the cut sheet is entirely your call.
A whole beef is a serious commitment of freezer space and a serious amount of food. It is also the cheapest beef you will ever eat that you can actually trace to a pasture.
- One animal, born, raised and finished in Jack County
- Grass-fed on the valley, grain-finished for marbling
- Processed at American Butchery in Mineral Wells
- Vacuum-sealed, flash-frozen, labeled by cut
- Ranch pickup, or delivery in our North Texas area
How much meat is in a whole cow?
A whole beef runs to roughly 450 lbs of packaged beef — cut, wrapped, vacuum-sealed and frozen — estimated off an approximately 750 lb hanging weight. Weight varies with the individual animal and with the choices you make on your cut sheet, so treat it as a good estimate rather than a guarantee.
If you want to understand where those two numbers come from, here is how live weight, hanging weight and take-home weight relate.
Most whole cows get split
Two families, one animal, one cut sheet, half each. It is how neighbors around here have always done it, and it is why a whole beef is often the smartest buy even for a household that could never eat one alone.
The two things worth agreeing on before you order: who fills out the cut sheet, and how you divide the premium steaks — because a beef does not have two identical halves' worth of tenderloin in the way people assume.
How to split a beef without falling out over it →
Freezer reality check
A whole beef wants roughly 14 to 16 cubic feet of empty freezer. That is a large chest freezer, cleared out, not "some room in the garage fridge." If you are buying a freezer for this, buy it before the beef is ready and get it cold, not the day you pick up.
Freezer sizes, costs and what to buy →
Comparing shares? Quarter, half and whole cow prices side by side.
Read these before you commit
Hanging weight explained
Why one ranch's $8.00 a pound and another's flat price are not the same number, and how to compare them.
Read the guide →
Filling out the cut sheet
With a whole animal you make every decision. Here is what each one actually changes on your plate.
Read the guide →
What cuts you get
Chuck to shank, what each part of the animal becomes and how to cook it.
Read the guide →
Whole cow questions
How much is a whole cow?
How much meat do you get from a whole cow?
Can two families split a whole cow?
How much freezer space does a whole cow need?
Is a whole cow cheaper per pound than a half?
Where can I buy a whole cow in North Texas?
Talk to the ranch
Reserve a whole cow
Currently $5,625. Call and we will tell you what is available now, the expected weight, and how the split works if you are going in with another family.
(214) 202-1855Monday–Thursday, 10am–2pm · Call or text