Re: Hog prices?
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I was going to buy a sow. I talked to a guy today that has some and he wants $0.90 a pound. That seemed really high. But they are fed to be meat hogs and guaranted free of shots and healthy. He said most of his are at the 350 lbs. mark right now. Other than meat what else are hogs in KY raised for? .90 is way to much for a hog that size.
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Re: Hog prices?
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I bought a 365# fat hog from a gal a couple years ago and it nearly ruined me on pork. Lard cracklins are great coyote bait when sprinkled over a flat set..
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Re: Hog prices?
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thats what i pay, pig weighs 250 i pay 250$
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Re: Hog prices?
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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? 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 I worked on the kill floor (butcher) in a sausage plant here in town for 2 years before it burned (Webber farms). We killed around 220 hogs a day on average. It was whole hog sausage. Most all of our hogs were well over 400 lbs. they were huge usually around 600. We have trucks, cattle trailers, tractors with loaders, fork trucks etc. Not to mention grinders and stuffers etc. The hogs I found are 11 months old and already 350 - 400 lbs.
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Re: Hog prices?
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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. Other than meat what else are hogs in KY raised for? .90 is way to much for a hog that size. I'm sure they are meat hogs. The guy that sells them runs a deal where he has them butchered and sells the meet etc. He puts a lot of work and effort in trying to raise top quality meat hogs.
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Re: Hog prices?
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You haven't had chicken or catfish until youve fried it in lard.
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Re: Hog prices?
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What is too much or too high of a price? If you buy what you want from whom you want raised and fed the way you want, then is price the major driver for you, be that meat, eggs, milk etc. etc.?
Bryce Your correct when I started this post I really didn't know for sure. After I found the hog farmer up here and talked to him I really feel like that's the right path for me. I trust him and he's put in a lot of time and feed into his hogs. That's worth something more than a gamble at the stockyards.
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Re: Hog prices?
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Your correct when I started this post I really didn't know for sure. After I found the hog farmer up here and talked to him I really feel like that's the right path for me. I trust him and he's put in a lot of time and feed into his hogs. That's worth something more than a gamble at the stockyards.
It's honestly the same gamble. Those are the same type of hogs you'll find at the stockyards, and I would bet the same guy sells some there so maybe even the same exact hogs. Most all the hogs that go through the stockyards are fed by small time feeders. Large operations all feed on contracts so hogs never see a stockyard. I've certainly paid more than market for buying off the farm (cattle), but there's a limit. Four times the market value is well beyond that limit for me.
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