Butchering a hog question?

[oktx]

Not true at all! We have gotten the best bacon and lots of it off our show hogs. These pigs these days are not lean at all. Best eating pork your gonna get hands down!

This. Show feed is the best stuff there is. Where do people get this stuff? Get him cut? He’s been cut if he was a show hog. They don’t show boars. Barrows only.

[hogslayer78]

This. Show feed is the best stuff there is. Where do people get this stuff? Get him cut? He’s been cut if he was a show hog. They don’t show boars. Barrows only.

Some people have no idea lol. We been showing pigs and have two now. Have had over 20 the last 5 years. Absolutely amazing groceries. I have never had bad show pig nor any that stunk while cooking. If these people are getting bad show pigs, it the butcher and meat prep not the pig.....

[brokeno]

Make ring sausage 75 pork/25 beef mixture , ribs and pork chops that's it. I would feed it corn for about 30 days too. Sausage will be cheapest way to go.

[hogslayer78]

We have ours fed out for 2 weeks on corn and zero issues at all. We get shoulder steaks, pork chops, tenderized ham steaks, cutlets, bacon, breakfast sausage.

[oktx]

Some people have no idea lol. We been showing pigs and have two now. Have had over 20 the last 5 years. Absolutely amazing groceries. I have never had bad show pig nor any that stunk while cooking. If these people are getting bad show pigs, it the butcher and meat prep not the pig.....

Yup. If the hog was taken care of and fed properly. It should be processor ready. Back in the late 70’s they wanted a lean hog. Early 80’s they want a fat hog. We called them slop hogs. I think now it’s somewhere in between.

[GarGuy]

Gut shoot him and let him run..... Never mind wrong thread!

Seriously though I gave been in buyers groups that bought show pigs and had them processed many times. Fine pork. Most are considerably larger than that but still worth butchering.

[hogslayer78]

Yup. If the hog was taken care of and fed properly. It should be processor ready. Back in the late 70’s they wanted a lean hog. Early 80’s they want a fat hog. We called them slop hogs. I think now it’s somewhere in between.

I promise you this hamp has tons of bacon lol. This dude would have made some noise at our county show too...he sitting at 275 today. Probably get him around 300.

[lovetohunt]

Even for wild boars I think it's more how it's treated after the kill. We have killed rutting boars in the 280lb range. Head shots so no running afterwards. A quick field dress and then back to camp to be skinned and quartered and it was some of the best we have had.

[Jason Fry]

Dang it, y'all done started something. Now I've got plans to go out on Saturday with a trailer and pick up a couple of show pigs, choot them somewhere, and butcher them in the back yard. $150 apiece, 230-250 lbs each.

[Abcdj]

Gut shoot him and let him run..... Never mind wrong thread!

Seriously though I gave been in buyers groups that bought show pigs and had them processed many times. Fine pork. Most are considerably larger than that but still worth butchering.

Hee hee hee!
I giggled when I read that

We were at the barn tonight feeding and one of the other parents offered us $175 for him. We took them up on it.

With school being cancelled till April and us living 15 miles one way. It made it an easy decision. No more feed, feeding, mucking the stall or driving. We still have 4 rabbits but they are at the house.

Lots of good intel today. Thanks for help.

[GarGuy]

Hee hee hee!
I giggled when I read that

We were at the barn tonight feeding and one of the other parents offered us $175 for him. We took them up on it.

With school being cancelled till April and us living 15 miles one way. It made it an easy decision. No more feed, feeding, mucking the stall or driving. We still have 4 rabbits but they are at the house.

Lots of good intel today. Thanks for help.

Take that 175 bucks and buy Boston butts next time hen puts them on for 98 cents a lb.

[Quackerbox]

Not true at all! We have gotten the best bacon and lots of it off our show hogs. These pigs these days are not lean at all. Best eating pork your gonna get hands down!

Some people have no idea lol. We been showing pigs and have two now. Have had over 20 the last 5 years. Absolutely amazing groceries. I have never had bad show pig nor any that stunk while cooking. If these people are getting bad show pigs, it the butcher and meat prep not the pig.....

all of this.

My wife and I have bought freezer sell pigs the last 2 years. The poke chops are divine and there is nothing wrong with the bacon. And the ones we buy are going from the ring to the trailer to the butcher

[TX_Hoghunter]

The last one we did was roughly $230. Hog weighed about 275. My advice is too feed it out on scraps for a month before getting it butchered. Makes them taste a lot better to me. Just saw you sold the hog. You just missed out on some much better than store pork....LOL

-john

[Louis]

Bought my grandsons show pig this past fall and had the processor feed him out with corn for 2 weeks. Bacon chops pan sausage ribs cutlets ham steaks all off this one hog. Best pork we ever ate.

[AlaskaFlyerFan]

We are new to FFA and the grandson has a pig that we need to do something with now that the show has been cancelled. I know there are other folks in this same position.

We have shot hundreds of hogs at the lease and never done anything them.

How much does it cost?

Is bacon expensive to get made?

Besides pork chops, hams, pork ribs and bacon what else can you get made?

In for your suggestions!

I have to pick one up today from the processor. It wasn’t a show hog though. https://discussions.texasbowhunter.c...ight=587+ranch It was 135 pounds on the hoof and I dropped off about 60 lbs of quarters. I asked the processor what cuts most people get and he said “Pan sausage, pan sausage, pan sausage. All day long pan sausage.” So I got pan sausage. The total cost is around $170 and I’ll get about 35-40 lbs back. I’m sure there are cheaper processors out there and probably cheaper to not have it all made into pan sausage.