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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: MJM] #6865981
05/07/20 04:01 PM
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Over weight sows sold at 8 cents a pound at the local auction on Monday. Small feeder pigs sold for 45 to 55 cents a pound. It works out to $24.00 for a 300 pound sow and $23.10 for a 55 pound feeder pig. There is no way you can grow a hog out for 90 cents.

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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: MJM] #6866042
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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: MJM] #6866142
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Anybody know of cheap hogs in mid-michigan? With Whitmer in charge I fear a food shortage is on the way. shocked

Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: MJM] #6866226
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Not sure about the whole meat shortage thing going on. I just picked up 20 lbs of Boston butts for 97 cents a pound. Not sure if I could feed or butcher one for that. There was no limit either, and the shelf was packed full. Freezer is already stuffed, but for that price I packed a little more in.

Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: MJM] #6866231
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I tried to buy a whole or half pig in my area from the butcher shops. They said it would be about 6 months. WOW


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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: MJM] #6866245
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we just butchered 2 300 lb hogs... payed 37,50 for them... made 4 different kins of sausage.... freezers are full....


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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: MJM] #6866251
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We’ll just go shoot one if times get tough, lol. Or another deer if times get really tough before any season opens.

Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: Wanna Be] #6866273
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
We’ll just go shoot one if times get tough, lol. Or another deer if times get really tough before any season opens.

grampa said when there red there dead... thats late july or august..... i heard them fat little fawns are tender and grill up great !!!


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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: beeman] #6866285
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Originally Posted by beeman
I watched “Market to Market” yesterday and they had a segment about the meat situation. They said there was a billion+ pounds of red meat in the freezers along with a billion+ pounds of chicken. They also said there is 7% more meat in the chain.

The only good news was that the margins the packer is getting is going up if that’s good news.

This program was on Iowa Public TV. Worth watching.

That's not good news. Packers have been making between 400-700 dollars PROFIT PER HEAD that they slaughter. Ranchers selling cattle at a loss FOR YEARS and all of the chicken and pork producers run on contracts meaning they have been vertically integrated and are owned by the packers already. The packers have monopolized and control the meat market. This meat shortage is because only 4 companies slaughter most of Americas meat in a limited number of gigantic plants. If we had smaller packing houses scattered across the country as it used to be about 3-4 generations ago there wouldn't be a meat shortage. If workers at one plant got sick it would have negligible impact on the meat supply. Most of those comodity traders on Market to Market are what I call "educated idiots." They have no clue and should not be on television.

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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: M.S. Pickins] #6866291
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Originally Posted by M.S. Pickins
Originally Posted by beeman
I watched “Market to Market” yesterday and they had a segment about the meat situation. They said there was a billion+ pounds of red meat in the freezers along with a billion+ pounds of chicken. They also said there is 7% more meat in the chain.

The only good news was that the margins the packer is getting is going up if that’s good news.

This program was on Iowa Public TV. Worth watching.

That's not good news. Packers have been making between 400-700 dollars PROFIT PER HEAD that they slaughter. Ranchers selling cattle at a loss FOR YEARS and all of the chicken and pork producers run on contracts meaning they have been vertically integrated and are owned by the packers already. The packers have monopolized and control the meat market. This meat shortage is because only 4 companies slaughter most of Americas meat in a limited number of gigantic plants. If we had smaller packing houses scattered across the country as it used to be about 3-4 generations ago there wouldn't be a meat shortage. If workers at one plant got sick it would have negligible impact on the meat supply. Most of those comodity traders on Market to Market are what I call "educated idiots." They have no clue and should not be on television.

well said..... when we had the majority of the people on a small family farm we were the strongest.... small towns flourished.... i think we need to get rid of the corporate farms and get the people back on the land!


The only place you find free cheese is in a mousetrap !
Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: MJM] #6866294
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I saw a post where they are selling some hogs in Van Wert Ohio. 260-300 lbs hogs at 140 a piece. Must take a minimum of 10.

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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: MJM] #6866303
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I've often said anybody that wants to eat meat should be required to kill and butcher it themselves...........but then there wouldn't be much meat consumed..


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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: M.S. Pickins] #6866307
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Originally Posted by M.S. Pickins
Originally Posted by beeman
I watched “Market to Market” yesterday and they had a segment about the meat situation. They said there was a billion+ pounds of red meat in the freezers along with a billion+ pounds of chicken. They also said there is 7% more meat in the chain.

The only good news was that the margins the packer is getting is going up if that’s good news.

This program was on Iowa Public TV. Worth watching.

That's not good news. Packers have been making between 400-700 dollars PROFIT PER HEAD that they slaughter. Ranchers selling cattle at a loss FOR YEARS and all of the chicken and pork producers run on contracts meaning they have been vertically integrated and are owned by the packers already. The packers have monopolized and control the meat market. This meat shortage is because only 4 companies slaughter most of Americas meat in a limited number of gigantic plants. If we had smaller packing houses scattered across the country as it used to be about 3-4 generations ago there wouldn't be a meat shortage. If workers at one plant got sick it would have negligible impact on the meat supply. Most of those comodity traders on Market to Market are what I call "educated idiots." They have no clue and should not be on television.


And in 3-4 generations we'll be back to where we are today. Because local can't offer economy of scale pricing to the public while meeting (or buying off) federal and state regulation.

The only way to break the system is direct to consumer sales without the burden of regulation.


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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: Gary Benson] #6866319
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Originally Posted by Gary Benson
I've often said anybody that wants to eat meat should be required to kill and butcher it themselves...........but then there wouldn't be much meat consumed..


I agree

It wouldn't stop me from eating meat but I am not normal either.

been killing and eating meat since I got my first bow about 9yo neighbor showed me how to skin my first squirrel (dad drove truck and was at work)


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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: MJM] #6866324
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When I was coming up it was a contest to take a rabbit break it's neck and have it skinned and gutted before the heart stopped beating. That and dad chopping heads off chickens giving it a toss and pointing to child saying catch it when it's quits flopping.


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If anyone hears of a deal on hogs or beef in Wisconsin or wants to go in on something, I'm laid off so I can help butcher. I'd love to put some more meat in the freezer and I think it would be a neat experience.

Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: warrior] #6866331
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Originally Posted by warrior
When I was coming up it was a contest to take a rabbit break it's neck and have it skinned and gutted before the heart stopped beating. That and dad chopping heads off chickens giving it a toss and pointing to child saying catch it when it's quits flopping.

Cool thing about a rabbit is you can do every bit of that with your bare hands, providing you have at least one good fingernail.

Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: MJM] #6866334
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Used to have sows and raised to about 50 pound , weaners , for sale.. We quite often had one with a belly rupture or a bulging testicle . I would butcher them at about 50 pounds, cut them up and into the freezer. Good eating. . I expect these big hog barns , would just kill them, too much bother.old243.

Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: Prn] #6866337
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Originally Posted by Prn
Not sure about the whole meat shortage thing going on. I just picked up 20 lbs of Boston butts for 97 cents a pound. Not sure if I could feed or butcher one for that. There was no limit either, and the shelf was packed full. Freezer is already stuffed, but for that price I packed a little more in.



HEB is the giant TX grocery store chain and they still have .99 / pound thighs, quarters, wings, or drum sticks already seasoned.

Things are weird right now- who knows what will happen but yeah, you wont raise, butcher, and package much for 97 or 99 cents unless you let pigs eat corn out of fresh cow poop (don't laugh- it used to be a thing)


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Re: Butcher Hogs [Re: Wanna Be] #6866342
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
Originally Posted by warrior
When I was coming up it was a contest to take a rabbit break it's neck and have it skinned and gutted before the heart stopped beating. That and dad chopping heads off chickens giving it a toss and pointing to child saying catch it when it's quits flopping.

Cool thing about a rabbit is you can do every bit of that with your bare hands, providing you have at least one good fingernail.


Never had the fingernails for that. Had post with a board nailed to it, the board had spaced nails to pin the back feet on. Pin, ring the ankles, cut across and pull. Peeled easier than a banana.


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