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Do you guys skin or scrape your hogs??

I sure hope that we're talking grass-fed hogs and not grain-fed.

Store bought chickens do not taste as good as home grown, but what I hate is the bloody joints from electrocuting them. miles

If available, hogs will eat more grass that one would expect. miles

growing up while processing domestic farm raised hogs such as poland china, yorkshire and durocs, we always scraped. boil the water, douse them, and start scraping to whistle clean. then hang and gut, etc.

with the wild hogs around here now, it makes more sense to skin them. gut them in the woods, and then drag them out and skin. much easier and less mess, work, and no need to heat a big pot of water.

the wild ones "seem" to be rougher coated than the domestic ones we use to raise.