Meat quality question

As I mentioned before, I just had to haul a 17 month bred heifer to the locker due to a broken femur. She has been out on pasture since Mid June and getting grain only once in a while when the herd came up to the lot. She is/was a BCS of 6 and weighing 950-1000.  Her leg was broken Wed night sometime as she was fine Wed at PM chores and Thursday she was lame.
When I took her to the locker, they said "probably on burger correct?"  I was hoping for some steaks and roast, but I have no experience of butchering an animal such as this.

Suggestions? Advice from experience?
Thanks

try stuff and have other people try it.  the lean cuts won't matter.  try skirt and flank steak.  it's the only way you are going to taste grass fed beef.  at least if you ask for cuts, you know they won't save some for themselves. 

I'm with Knabe. Your heifer is young enough that the meat "may" not be tough & the only way you'll know whether or not to grind everything next time is to try some cuts this time. If you don't like the cuts you can thaw them and take them somewhere to then grind them up.

Would you recommend ribeyes, sirloin roasts and chuck roast?  Those would seem like the obvious choices, but then again, I am not real knowledgeable on grass fed meat quality cuts.

I have a friend that every year always ends up with a cripple or hurt one. He usually tries to get them about 1000 before the locker appointment. He gets a few roasts, depending on the animal some steaks and roasts. He does grain these a little bit since they are usually by the house. I would get what cuts you want then if its not what you want grind it up. Everyone likes different flavors.

I had a simelar situation this spring.  Cow broke her back and we butchered her at the farm.  We kept all the roasts we could and they are great in a crock pot.  Burger was pretty dang good as well.  Didn't do any steaks though.  She was also like 2 1/2 yrs old.  Id do a few steaks on a heifer that is in that bcs

Quite a few years ago we had a 7 year old Glenford cow break her leg. Sent her for hamburger and they phoned to say the meat was great and it would be a waste not to take roasts, they were right, tender with marbling. She was running on grass raising a 5 month old calf at the time.

If your heifer was in good rig on pasture, I would not hesitate to have her cut normally. The steaks and roasts may be slightly leaner, but they should be fine especially with her still being relatively young. Personally I really like the leaner roasts especially if they are cooked slowly for longer periods of time. We oftentimes put a lean roast in a crockpot in the morning, and let it cook until late afternoon and the meat hardly needs to be cut.
Last summer, I had a yearling bull ( that I had sold to a breeder in Australia) break his front leg off two days before he was to go to stud for collection. The local abbatoir said that if he had no temperature, to bring him in and they would process him. He was 15 months old and had been on pasture for about 2 months when this happened. At first, we thought we would have to make a bunch of hamburger, but after he was hung in the cooler, the butcher suggested that the carcass looked excellent and we should consider cutting roasts and steaks from him. He was right as they were excellent.

We have our old cull cows (10-14yrs) butchered all the time.  Our meat customers love the steaks, roasts and burger.  These are butchered right off of grass, or grass hay.