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Butcher hogs #11504633 10/14/16
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT L laker OP Campfire Tracker
OP laker Campfire Tracker L Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT	Butchering our hog tomorrow. Who else on here butchers hogs every year. Nothing like your own homemade sausage

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Re: Butcher hogs laker #11504859 10/14/16
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 86,133 In the shadow of the Kenai Mtn... ironbender Campfire Oracle
ironbender Campfire Oracle Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 86,133 In the shadow of the Kenai Mtn...	Have not done one here in several ears. At the price of pork at Country Foods grocer, it's not cost effective for us. It was always a good time though. +1 on the sausage! If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender

Re: Butcher hogs ironbender #11504875 10/14/16
Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 19,097 Arkansas milespatton Campfire Ranger
milespatton Campfire Ranger Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 19,097 Arkansas	Quote Have not done one here in several years. Tweaked it a little. Me too, I always figured to raise some pigs and a beef when I retired and was home full time, but then old age got in the way. I barely have time for the stuff that has to be done and a lot of what I want to do falls by the wayside. I tell people that I don't know how I ever had time to work at a job, but I have just slowed down that much. miles Look out for number 1, don't step in number 2.

Re: Butcher hogs ironbender #11505626 10/15/16
Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 50,619 Anchorage, AK USA Sitka deer Campfire Kahuna
Sitka deer Campfire Kahuna Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 50,619 Anchorage, AK USA	Originally Posted by ironbender Have not done one here in several ears. At the price of pork at Country Foods grocer, it's not cost effective for us. It was always a good time though. +1 on the sausage! Friends raised a hog last year and paid more to have it processed than pork costs! They paid 1.50/pound incoming and got less than 50% back... Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.

Re: Butcher hogs milespatton #11506081 10/15/16
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 86,133 In the shadow of the Kenai Mtn... ironbender Campfire Oracle
ironbender Campfire Oracle Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 86,133 In the shadow of the Kenai Mtn...	Originally Posted by milespatton Quote Have not done one here in several years. Tweaked it a little. Me too, I always figured to raise some pigs and a beef when I retired and was home full time, but then old age got in the way. I barely have time for the stuff that has to be done and a lot of what I want to do falls by the wayside. I tell people that I don't know how I ever had time to work at a job, but I have just slowed down that much. miles Thanks for the edit, Miles! If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender

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Re: Butcher hogs laker #11506319 10/15/16
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT L laker OP Campfire Tracker
OP laker Campfire Tracker L Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT	Figured it all up this evening and we are into it for $1.47/pound

Re: Butcher hogs laker #11507188 10/16/16
Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 44,045 south of south local_dirt Campfire 'Bwana
local_dirt Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 44,045 south of south	That's not too bad. Plus, you know exactly where it came from. Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH

Re: Butcher hogs local_dirt #11507377 10/16/16
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 35,900 B BobinNH Campfire 'Bwana
BobinNH Campfire 'Bwana B Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 35,900	I pay a little extra for mine but the quality/flavor is better. The 280 Remington is overbore. The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.

Re: Butcher hogs BobinNH #11507769 10/16/16
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 26,337 south of grinder's switch G Gus Campfire Ranger
Gus Campfire Ranger G Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 26,337 south of grinder's switch	killin' Wilbur the home-grown hog is a good way to go, but it ain't necessarily cheap. we use to grow and process two a year. one on the friday after Thanksgiving, and one on the Xmas to New Year's holidays. it stopped being cost effective for us, but some friends still do it.

Re: Butcher hogs laker #11508161 10/16/16
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,936 Northern California AggieDog Campfire Tracker
AggieDog Campfire Tracker Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,936 Northern California	We butcher7-8 hogs for sausage every year. Several families involved and a weekend event. Alot of work and good times.We primarily do sausage,but we also do bacon, chops, ribs, hams. Links and patty sausage., hang the links in a smoke house.

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Re: Butcher hogs laker #11508494 10/16/16
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT L laker OP Campfire Tracker
OP laker Campfire Tracker L Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT	I am just trying my first attempt at bacon. Hopefully it turns out.

Re: Butcher hogs laker #11508855 10/16/16
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 31,599 Fall Creek Blanco Co. Texas K kaywoodie Campfire 'Bwana
kaywoodie Campfire 'Bwana K Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 31,599 Fall Creek Blanco Co. Texas	I usually get in the way while old son does most of the work. But I'm there for the special tasks as they arise. Love the bacon he makes! Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester "Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored." WS

Re: Butcher hogs local_dirt #11508863 10/16/16
Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 18,243 North Central Idaho FieldGrade Campfire Ranger
FieldGrade Campfire Ranger Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 18,243 North Central Idaho	Originally Posted by local_dirt That's not too bad. Plus, you know exactly where it came from. Plus one^^^^^^ Good luck with the Bacon Laker...

Re: Butcher hogs kaywoodie #11509016 10/16/16
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 16,908 Time to be someplace else 2 284LUVR Campfire Ranger
284LUVR Campfire Ranger 2 Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 16,908 Time to be someplace else	Originally Posted by kaywoodie I usually get in the way while old son does most of the work. I'm a consultant of sorts in that I stay close to the frying pan to "advise" in the proper amounts of seasonings needed at each turn of the process. It's a tough job.

Re: Butcher hogs laker #11509466 10/16/16
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,289 Central Missouri, USA Crappie_Killer Campfire Tracker
Crappie_Killer Campfire Tracker Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,289 Central Missouri, USA	We still butcher with the wife's side of the family 5 or 6 every year. We have it killed and cleaned at the butch shop, but do everything else ourselves. All of the hogs come off of dirt and not concrete. The pork in the stores doesn't come close as far as I am concerned. We still cook of the heads and bones and make liver sausage and render the lard. CK

Re: Butcher hogs laker #11510648 10/17/16
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 118 North Alabama P paddlejon Campfire Member
paddlejon Campfire Member P Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 118 North Alabama	I do my own. Have for about the last 10 years

Re: Butcher hogs local_dirt #11511431 10/17/16
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 86,133 In the shadow of the Kenai Mtn... ironbender Campfire Oracle
ironbender Campfire Oracle Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 86,133 In the shadow of the Kenai Mtn...	Originally Posted by local_dirt That's not too bad. Plus, you know exactly where it came from. Well, that's why we raise meat chickens! If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender

Re: Butcher hogs ironbender #11511856 10/17/16
Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,121 Michigan B bigwoods Campfire Regular
bigwoods Campfire Regular B Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,121 Michigan	Originally Posted by ironbender Originally Posted by local_dirt That's not too bad. Plus, you know exactly where it came from. Well, that's why we raise meat chickens! Same here. My wife wont buy a chicken from the store anymore. And its soooo easy!

Re: Butcher hogs laker #11518897 10/20/16
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT L laker OP Campfire Tracker
OP laker Campfire Tracker L Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT	Bacon turned out good for my first time. Ready to fry some up tomorrow morning and head west after elk

Re: Butcher hogs laker #11519801 10/21/16
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,567 grottoes ,virginia,usa srwshooter Campfire Outfitter
srwshooter Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,567 grottoes ,virginia,usa	I grew up butchering hogs, some of my best family memories were on butchering days.also have a good friend that killed hogs for other people . I would go help him just because i enjoyed doing it. These days i buy bodton butts for around 1.00 a pound to make sausage. I also boil the bones and csaps off to make ponhoss.

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