The smallest they had was 20 oz. So I used 10 oz. and froze 10. But frozen is never as good. 
I have an actual honest to god butcher shop in my neighborhood. Even when I go there I almost always just get whatever they have in the display case, even though they usually even offer to go cut some more if for whatever reason none of those are acceptable.
I had a similar problem at the butcher shop the one time I did as for something smaller than what they had out. I wanted a roast small enough to fit in my Instant Pot, but the guy said he couldn’t sell me half of one. In hindsight maybe I phrased the question wrong. I asked him to cut one in half for me; maybe I should have asked him to cut a new one smaller than the ones they had out. In the end I bought a big one, cut it in half myself, and froze half.
How about: no actual butchers in my area?
Anyone remember (or still do) ask the butcher for bones for your dog?
You got to PAY for dem bones now.
I usually buy beef neckbones and marrow bones (both pretty cheap), roast them until brown, add a sliced unpeeled onion and carrot, then simmer them for several hours.
Beef stock for me, meat And bones for the pups.
Two or three times a year I’ll request thick cut steaks for smoking or thin sliced if I’m in the mood to make up a batch of jerky.
Use it in a fish chowder, you’ll never know the difference.
My gf once bought a huge 2 pound hunk of salmon that she wanted me to grill for a dinner party we were having. Normally I would have cut the fish into individual servings and grilled them like that, but the whole piece of fish looked so nice that I decided to try cooking it whole.
I grilled the fish skin side down without turning it in a closed 350 grill, then used my torch to sear the top. I had oiled the grill grates and used three spatulas to move the finished fish onto a huge platter. I cut and served the fish table side, even my gf was impressed.
I do. And I’m debating answering “Sometimes” on the poll, because I have asked the butcher for joint bones with some meat still on them. I have a special non-kosher pot I boil them in, and let the dog have at them. The boiling isn’t because she’s a snowflake-- the vet said I should do it to kill bacteria and parasites.
I get her this about 4 times a year, and it costs about $10, because of the meat left on it.
You can get a thing of “soup bones,” which are sliced femur about 2-3 cm thick and maybe 3.5 cm in diameter, usually 4 to a pack. They were about $3 a pack in the 1990s, so they are probably at least $9 now. I only had one dog who liked them, and she went through them like butter. The knee bones last forever, and I’ve never had a dog not like them.
Once in a while, you find knee bones in the case labeled “stew bones,” but it’s not that common. They always seem to have them when you ask, though. I’m not sure why they don’t put them out more often.
The reason I’m debating not answering the poll at all is that I’m a vegetarian, and except for this joint bone, I’ve never asked the butcher for anything.
“Bone broth “ is a Thing now, so beef bones got a lot pricier.
I sometimes see lamb or goat on the bone for stew, but never beef or pork. (The closer you get to Flatbush, which is full of West Indians, the more likely you are to find goat in the stores.)