What does a pig cost? Is it cheaper to buy a sub-adult, raise it into adulthood, then slaughter it and butcher it yourself or just buy a whole pig already butchered?
>>2795446Depends on where you live, access to feed ect. $45-60 for a feeder pig but you’re talking 4-7 lbs of feed a day for 3-4 months to fatten it up. Half a hog is like 450 - 500 mcdollars processed probably 800 - 900 for a whole hog.
>>2795446Getting pigs is easy but getting breeders is getting a bit harder unless you're in the midwest. It really only makes any money sense though if you've got some source of cheap feed. When I grew up my grandfather always kept a ton of pigs when it was still profitable. For alot of his life he farmed but would sell a load of hogs every month for his walking around momey. He had his own corn crop and the only thing he'd buy is a supplement and in the 90s it became pointless even for him from a money standpoint. Cows are different though you can make money on that and it's alot less trouble if you have the space for them.
>>2795446you can buy a 200 pound finished hog or a 300 to 400 pound failed breeding sow for about the same price herea little over $200 canadianthe hogs are slaughtered, dehaired and spliti can cut and wrap a hog in a few hours, i leave all the skin on
>>2795446>Germhogs sweating bullets
>>2795446>>2795446holding a pig alone is called animal crueltykeep at lest 4-5 animals if you have a male and 4-5 females the will expode in number and you can sell themstep 4: profit
>>2795504You use a bandsaw or traditional? I'm jelly. I always wanted to learn but the fiance is vegetarian and buying a whole pig to eat by myself seems crazy.
>>2795450Wtf are you talking about we do 3.40 a pound butchered ourselves, 4.75 for the local pasture raised stuff all cut and packaged>>2797154Most places will sell you a half, should take up less than half of an upright freezer. We don't have a de hairing setup so we skin them and cut in half with a meat saw. Everything else is knives. If you have a place to hang it you need like a 4 foot table with cutting boards to process. Butcher paper and freezer tape or vac seal bags
>>2798831Half a hog is about a hundred pounds and costs $450. So about $4.50 a pound. Do they not teach math where you live pigfucker? I just live in the hog capitol of the world what do I know?
>>2798840I paid $370 for a whole hog hanging weight at that price. Are you getting charged for hide hair head hooves blood and offal too? Just because a slaughter hog will run about 200-250 lbs doesn't mean a side of pork weighs half that
