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Wife’s uncle scalds theirs
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When your pork steak looks like a beef rib eye, yum.
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If you have any colonies close by, you can get any weight you desire scalded and ready for the smoker for a little cash and a handle or 2 of Jim Beam. At least in SD anyways. My group of friends does a 120lb whole hog every year. Plus, you can get their buns which are baked with duck fat. Which colony, Bon Homme?
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Spring time was buying wiener pigs through the county extension agent litter secretary.
In Snohomish WA in the 1990s I did a hampshire / duroc cross and finished on more wheat than corn. This made the fat layer thin, and hard to skin.
The slaughter guy would show up and shoot the pigs in the head with a 22 and take them to the butcher.
My grandfather in Bristol VA in the 1920s through 1950s would get a guy with 22 to show up and shoot them.
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Spring time was buying wiener pigs through the county extension agent litter secretary.
In Snohomish WA in the 1990s I did a hampshire / duroc cross and finished on more wheat than corn. This made the fat layer thin, and hard to skin.
The slaughter guy would show up and shoot the pigs in the head with a 22 and take them to the butcher.
My grandfather in Bristol VA in the 1920s through 1950s would get a guy with 22 to show up and shoot them. Back before we had kids, the wife would soak a 5 gallon bucket of feed wheat to feed the pigs. The fat was white...I don't remember how much there was. We always considered wheat and oats to be a grower, barley and corn to be a fattener. Dad didn't like the flavor on wheat fed. We have a grinder now and grind our own barley and a store bought vitamin and mineral pack together. We don't use any of the additives outfits like Tyson use to produce lean, non marbled pork really fast.
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Which colony, Bon Homme?[/quote]
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We buy show hog’s that don’t make it to shows, they are fed out and taken good care of just like rest, our local butcher is in with 4-H kids, and buy’s them, butchering to a cut sheet per your request, not that expensive either, we get two 200 hundred pounder’s a year.
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Do y'all scald and butcher them in house? No. We hire it done. No one knows what happened to grandpas scalding pot. Nearly everything up here is skinned. I want to try scalding and doing some whole hog cooks. I am curious how the red pigs look scraped and cooked. I suppose the skin is just darker on the cooked pig? Would that turn someone off? Jim, trust me on this, taking them to the locker is the better option. I’ve been in on the scalding and processing of truck loads of hogs. It ain’t all that much fun!
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Do y'all scald and butcher them in house? No. We hire it done. No one knows what happened to grandpas scalding pot. Nearly everything up here is skinned. I want to try scalding and doing some whole hog cooks. I am curious how the red pigs look scraped and cooked. I suppose the skin is just darker on the cooked pig? Would that turn someone off? Durocs are the hardest breed to scald and scrape well. The red hair seems to root deeper or something. Raise the pigs on dirt?
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Getting to try our home raised duroc pork. Had some side pork this morning after chores. Going to cook some chops for supper. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/NG74B2Vc/20240329-102242.jpg) Good color. Good marbling. Flavor is out of this world. No comparison at all. Currently taking orders..... Yum! Are you going to do them over charcoal? We bought a whole hog from a local commercial outfit that was selling them cheap a few years back. NASTY NASTY stuff. What we didn't give to our kids we threw out and I think they threw out the stuff we gave them too. Home raised is 100 times better.
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Do y'all scald and butcher them in house? No. We hire it done. No one knows what happened to grandpas scalding pot. Nearly everything up here is skinned. I want to try scalding and doing some whole hog cooks. I am curious how the red pigs look scraped and cooked. I suppose the skin is just darker on the cooked pig? Would that turn someone off? Durocs are the hardest breed to scald and scrape well. The red hair seems to root deeper or something. Raise the pigs on dirt? Yep. Dirt. Our old bachelor friend won't buy one unless it's on dirt.
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Getting to try our home raised duroc pork. Had some side pork this morning after chores. Going to cook some chops for supper. Good color. Good marbling. Flavor is out of this world. No comparison at all. Currently taking orders..... Yum! Are you going to do them over charcoal? We bought a whole hog from a local commercial outfit that was selling them cheap a few years back. NASTY NASTY stuff. What we didn't give to our kids we threw out and I think they threw out the stuff we gave them too. Home raised is 100 times better. We have a west wind today so I could cook them outside.
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Getting to try our home raised duroc pork. Had some side pork this morning after chores. Going to cook some chops for supper. Good color. Good marbling. Flavor is out of this world. No comparison at all. Currently taking orders..... Jim; Happy Easter to you and the rest of your fine family sir. As a lifelong eater of pork and most of a lifetime cook of same, perhaps not qualifying yet as a connoisseur, but certainly a bit of a pork snob, Oh My!!!  I can only imagine the flavor of that, seeing the colors. Oh my, Jim, just Oh My..... Happy Easter and Bon Appetit as they'd say way out east. Dwayne
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Down home good. Glad I got to witness an ol' timey hog killin'. All except the killin', 4 or 5 years old. Overheard hog killin' tales all the time. It was a big deal to country folk. Hog killin' weather references all the time.
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Kick azz looking chop.
How many can ya stuff in a flat rate box🤔
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Good marbling on those chops, Jim. Gonna beat the Hell out of anything you can buy in the store!
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Those look fantastic.
All the focus on fast growth and low fat ruined commercial pork a long while ago.
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Now that’s what pork is supposed to look like.
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How old when you slaughter? Weight?
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