If I were near you I would take that offer.I make lots of sausage,and also love good pig lard.Best pie crust in the world is made with pig lard.

Pick me up on your way and we'll split it.

I have a couple questions for you guys then

The cheap, oversized hogs - are they ok for grinding into sausage still? Why don't people buy those huge ones for ground pork/sausage if they are so cheap?

If you buy from the livestock auction, is it possible that you pay 65c and get a butcher hog that was fed trash ,carcasses, and 'coon fat? Could you end up inadvertently buying an inedible hog because someone was using it to dispose of skinned carcasses?

Lard makes great cookies too. Lard is better for you than all the vegetable oils except maybe olive oil. We use lard almost daily.

Keith

You got that right Keith! Im not a big sweet eater,,but give me a pie made with a lard crust and get out of my way!! LOL

We have four that are going to butcher on 16th we get 2.35 hanging weight, 220 to 240 dressed weight is just right.

Last time I checked around here, it was around 75 cents a pound, live weight. I need to start looking, I'll be in the market for a 300 pounder in a month or so

Just because he recently divorced it doesn't mean he wanted it killed.

Funny thread.

I am sure the cheap oversized hogs would be okay for grinding or they would not be allowed to be sold. I think it would be near impossible to feed a hog any sort of meat and make it taste bad.

I think only a very small proportion of Americans know how to butcher any animal. It's much easier to buy meat already butchered and processed and it saves time and prevents a mess. Most Americans are very adverse to getting dirty and fairly lazy now.

Transporting a live, huge hog is not easy, unless you have the equipment for it. Even transporting a large dead hog is hard without help, and a truck or trailer. Winches are useful too for huge dead hogs.

Keith

we would mix a sow with 3 225 to 250lb hogs for sausage

If you pulled something like that at my place,you would be sad.

We just butchered a 340 lb dead gilt almost ready to be a sow........it cost me the effort and time to get her loaded off the dead cart. She had a heart attack in the barn and neighbor called. He knows we process our own meat and didn't want to compost her. 20 minutes in Insta Pot and her ribs were delicious........any commercial barn will have hogs die often of natural causes and they are just fine for eating. You just have to be willing to do a little work..........

Should add, we raised quite a few berks the last few years and I never sold them under a dollar a lb live weight. We are a small dirt operation and it is worth that to me to not sell a finished pig cheap.

Thats high for even a market hog. Its crazy high for a 350 lb hog. Once they’re that big the price drops off real fast.

On a hog that size, you’ll pay more for the butcher than the hog itself. As stated above,sows are really cheap and boars are almost worthless once they hit a certain weight. Sausage will be just fine from that sow and the loins should be good just a little tougher than normal. (Just cook them a little longer). Boars are a whole other kettle of fish. I had a friend that used to swap boars with me from time to time. He had one he was finished with so he sent it to the sale barn. About a week later he got a bill in the mail😂

Exactly...too big for my taste

You have pigs? Or not allowed to carry up there?

She's here for the taking upstateNY. Swing by and pick up Ol catch22 and head this way! I'll put a pot of stew and a pot of coffee on and both will be hot when you get here lol! I've tried multiple times to give this hog away and have even had people come to get her and then leave without her because they didn't realize how big she actually was and had no way to handle a hog that size. I have even offered to shoot her and load her in someone's pickup with my tractor and got no takers. I would butcher her myself like I did the one that came with her but I ran out of time and freezer space.

Oh man, Davis, if you were only closer!!! We'd have a good time and I guarantee you'd be rid of that hog. That is a very generous offer!

And Wanna Be, it's a matter of respect and common courtesy. It's not cool to whip out and fire a gun on someone else's property without there permission.

I love this story .