from the farmer I know. Kill date beginning of March. Good summertime eats on the way.

Do you mind sharing what you paid for it?
I was looking into one and the cost is 225$ for a 250-300# hog. Basic butchering is 60cent a pound hanging wait. Cured meat is 60 cents additional per pound. Is that a good deal?

good eatin there! mmmm bacon

About the same

N.Roberts That figures out to be around
90 cents a pound live weight. Seems pretty high priced
To me. I’m guessing actual price for a live hog is 40-50 cents per
Pound. I assume the farmer is going to deliver to the butcher.
That would be worth something.

I run my hogs in the woods with electric fence and rotationally graze them, also provide feed. They get a wide variety of food sources from rooting, hay and what not I charge $4.00 a pound plus butcher cost and I deliver. Have more customers then I can service. Are your pigs raised in confinement. Not saying anything is wrong just wondering?

Can you butcher it your self and save money? Pigs are easy to kill cut and wrap then pay someone to cure the hams and bacon.

Im wondering too where do you find such gullible people?

He told me about 50 cents a lb. I have to pay the farmer. Then I pay for a kill charge and then butchering.

Only thing missing is your kill fee normally 75 to 100 bucks.

But that is very reasonable 60 cents cut wrap and 1.20 to cure smoke cut and wrap hams and bacon. Id pay those prices

Very easy to process your self easy as a deer. You can even render out the lard and the hide makes great bait this time of the year. Cut out the backstraps or chops, use a battery operated saw cut the ribs. debone front shoulders and neck for sausage hind quarters cure and smoke or fresh and home smoked bacon. Good time of year to do it nice and cool for the smoker. Head makes good souse or tamales, heart liver for sausage and can even wash your own casings and brine. Nothing like homemade boudin with the liver, celery, onions and spices.

Just bought one for $30 but was a bigger sow, just mainly doing sausage for brats, smoked breakfast links and ground to add to deer meat.

This. I do 1-2 every year and butcher myself. Not hard, plenty of YouTube videos on it, and saves.money.

Last week at the local auction, butcher weight hogs were 35 cents a pound, so a 250 pound butcher hog would be $87.50.

Keith

Very Easy to butcher. 4.00 a pound plus butcher is nuts

Ya got a pig Castrater?

Remember you people are the salt of the earth, most people have no idea how to raise a pig or cow or goat or sheep. And my customers want no gmo feed and no ivermectin. It's what a customer wants to put in his or her body. And make no mistake I'm not the only one.

We get $2.35/pound hanging plus slaughter and butcher fees, usda inspected, we have them sold before we get the pigglets.

Thank you New fox1 and ours are USDA inspected also. And we use hanging hanging weight. It is all in your customer base and what they demand.

Jd more power too you not knocking you if you can get that and i bet it takes more time to slaughter weight. Just want to find people like that to buy from us.