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Main Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: charby on February 18, 2018, 08:10:28 PM
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I just picked up my half pasture raised hog from the locker. 1/2 duroc and 1/2 chester white was the breed of pig, meat is fairly red and marbled like beef. It is just the wife and I, so I had ham roasts and steaks made from the hams, looking forward to ham and hominy in the coming weeks (can't eat most hard beans).
Fat pasture hogs aren't cheap, I paid $265 for the 1/2 pig, plus $97 at the locker. I had ham, bacon made for the specialty, rest was chops, front should roasts and lots of ground pork. I can't eat beef, so much of this pig will be my grilling meat this summer.
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I should really ask my parents to get something like that for us. They live in the middle of Illinois and have many friends with pigs to butcher each year.
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I just picked up my half pasture raised hog from the locker. 1/2 duroc and 1/2 chester white was the breed of pig, meat is fairly red and marbled like beef. It is just the wife and I, so I had ham roasts and steaks made from the hams, looking forward to ham and hominy in the coming weeks (can't eat most hard beans).
Fat pasture hogs aren't cheap, I paid $265 for the 1/2 pig, plus $97 at the locker. I had ham, bacon made for the specialty, rest was chops, front should roasts and lots of ground pork. I can't eat beef, so much of this pig will be my grilling meat this summer.
What was the total weight you took home?
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What was the total weight you took home?
I don't know, enough I struggled to take it from the car to the basement freezer.
Hanging half was 104lbs at the locker (carcass weight)
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So, probably around 60 pounds of meat. That averages under $6/lb for good quality pork. Not bad.
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We buy shoulder roasts when we can get them on sale, usually around 100-120 lbs, and make breakfast sausage for the whole family. The quality is so much better.
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So, probably around 60 pounds of meat. That averages under $6/lb for good quality pork. Not bad.
And almost all of that money stayed local.
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I get by with the wild hogs I kill. Meat tastes great. Cost is like zero. I do the butchering and processing myself,
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I get by with the wild hogs I kill. Meat tastes great. Cost is like zero. I do the butchering and processing myself,
Cheap, yes, but potentially deadly. Handle, cook, and consume with care.
http://www.gon.com/news/kill-feral-hogs-but-handle-them-carefully-for-your-health-and-your-dogs
Brad
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I get by with the wild hogs I kill. Meat tastes great. Cost is like zero. I do the butchering and processing myself,
No or very little feral pigs in my state.
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Pork burger patty with goat cheese is so tasty.
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Nice!