What are the average hog prices in your area? Looking at a 400 lbs. hog pick up live at the farm.

Not sure, but that is a big piggy!

Usually about 6 Bud lights and a cheeseburger from the bar. From the farm no extra except a few miles further

We bought a 150# pig from a guy for $25. He wasn’t too happy when I pulled out the .45 and popped it between the eyes. In fact he said if he’d known I was gonna kill it he wouldn’t have sold it to me. It was much easier to load up dead and it going to be in the ground cooking within a matter of hours. Had a big dove hunt the next day and needed meat and I was in charge of bringing the meat. It was some fine eating too.

I have 2 cousins in Illinois who are in the hog biz. 400 is a pretty big hog compared to the usual weight they sell at. They sell hundreds a year so they sell on a contract. Don' t know what price they currently get.
mt

At 400 lbs your probably paying for a lot of back fat . For the freezer I like them 220-240.

Around 150 to 175 dollars.

If I had free pork but had to have these confinement houses to get it you wouldn't have pork to eat ….whewwwww

What the heck did else did the guy expect you to do with it? Marry it?

We are going to grind the entire hog for sausage. Except the loins and we will probably eat most of those during the processing. I was told a 350 to 400 lbs. hog was the best lean to fat ratio for whole hog suasge. I really don't mind a little fat left over to grind with deer etc. but I don't want my breakfast sausage too lean.

A 400 lb what? Sow, boar, etc...
Whatever it is, it's well past normal butchering weight and fair market price will be far less than a normal market hog. Only one on the local report at that weight (over 300), a boar that sold for $6/CWT. That would be $24.

Hahaha!

Is your hog a sow or boar?

I always kill my meat hogs right where you said.220-240 lbs.After that,your just growing fat.

I buy literal tons of meat for resale to a pet food manufacturer, who grinds it up whole. In cool and cold weather, I prefer to cull on pick up, but I always ask permission first. I also sell lots of livestock here on my farm. I would be ticked too if someone pulled out a gun on my property and shot anything, without asking first. When they ask, I have no problem letting them kill here, but due to the mess, I don't let them butcher here.

I bought a 400 some pound sow last year for $200.00, which included delivering it to the butcher. I have a market sized hog going in, in February, that I traded $200.00 in credit towards 3 goats for.

You can buy cheap oversized hogs at livestock auctions. You should be able to find the auction results for your local auctions online.

One of the Kentucky auction sites is:

https://www.bgstockyards.com/sales-info/market-report

At 40 cents a pound a 400 pound hog would be $160.00. The oversized sows in those reports mostly sold for 40 cents a pound.

Private sales are probably a little higher. If you watch Craigslist, you may be able to get a really cheap hog.

Keith

Just butchered 2 250 lb hogs two weeks ago. Paid .72 cents a lb live weight. A neighbor paid .65 cents but bought it at a sales barn and has no idea how or what it was fed. Ours where from a 4H project so we know they where well taken care of.

I was going to buy a sow. I talked to a guy today that has some and he wants $0.90 a pound. That seemed really high. But they are fed to be meat hogs and guaranted free of shots and healthy. He said most of his are at the 350 lbs. mark right now.

My 10 year old son sells hanging hogs for 2.75 a lb hanging weight. Usual hanging weight is 200 to 250 lbs. beautiful pork. Lil guy is richer than dad! Lol

That's a good deal..72 cents live is about a buck a pound hanging and that's a great deal these day if,,like you said you know what went into the pig.

I've got a 400+ pound sow that you can have if you just come get her! No time to butcher her and she won't bring the gas money it will take to get her to an auction. I'm sick of feeding her. Last I checked around here oversized hogs were bringing pennies a pound at the closest auction and that is over 100 miles from me.