Small hog slaughter
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Planning to home butcher 8mo old American Guinea Hog boar and 3 yr old sow in the very near future. The little boar first and the sow a couple weeks after. I’d really like to take advantage of everything on the carcasses I possibly can whether I think the fam and I will like the end product or not. So any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Here are some questions to get this discussion started:
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What is the best way to make use of the head that will sneak past squeamish children?
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What organs are for sure not worth saving? (colon, gall, stomach?)
Thanks in advance!
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Planning to home butcher 8mo old American Guinea Hog boar and 3 yr old sow in the very near future. The little boar first and the sow a couple weeks after. I’d really like to take advantage of everything on the carcasses I possibly can whether I think the fam and I will like the end product or not. So any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Here are some questions to get this discussion started:
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What is the best way to make use of the head that will sneak past squeamish children?
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What organs are for sure not worth saving? (colon, gall, stomach?)
Thanks in advance!
@j_rid - I saw an episode of Meat Eater on Netflix where he shot a wild boar and used the head for headcheese and every part of the usable hog. He even made his own sausage casings and used them for sausage from the same hog. I wish I could remember the episode, but was very interesting. Might be worth a google.
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@j_rid - I saw an episode of Meat Eater on Netflix where he shot a wild boar and used the head for headcheese and every part of the usable hog. He even made his own sausage casings and used them for sausage from the same hog. I wish I could remember the episode, but was very interesting. Might be worth a google.
lkrfletcher thanks I’ll check it out.
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Was Season 4 Episode 2 - Available free on you tube
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Unless you had other plans for the skin, I always thought it would be fun to try making home made fried pork rinds. (chicharrones fritos).
Should be able to bag and freeze the skins to do this at a later date if there is too much other butchering activities going on.Head cheese is a good way to use the head meat without the actual head being part of the meal table setting.
We enjoy steaming the ears with asian spices and slicing into thin strips when they are tender. Serve with nuoc mam. Be advised that pork ears are full of cartilage, and are never totally tender, but have sort of a crunchy texture.
Paul
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Unless you had other plans for the skin, I always thought it would be fun to try making home made fried pork rinds. (chicharrones fritos).
Should be able to bag and freeze the skins to do this at a later date if there is too much other butchering activities going on.Head cheese is a good way to use the head meat without the actual head being part of the meal table setting.
We enjoy steaming the ears with asian spices and slicing into thin strips when they are tender. Serve with nuoc mam. Be advised that pork ears are full of cartilage, and are never totally tender, but have sort of a crunchy texture.
processhead in that episode he make cracklins… or pork rinds. Good call.
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I was already torn on whether to scald and scrape or skin…now i’m even more so!
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I was already torn on whether to scald and scrape or skin…now i’m even more so!
Ridley Acres said in Small hog slaughter:
I was already torn on whether to scald and scrape or skin…now i’m even more so!
See, aren’t you glad you came here to resolve these thorny questions?! lol
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The head can be used as already described or boiled until falling off the bone tender then remove all meat possible, chop and shed and make the some delicious tamales. Stomach is completely edible, but stinks when cooked nevertheless it’s great when done right. Intestines are your sausage casings if you can stomach the cleaning process. Pigs feet and hocks are delicious one pickled the other cured and smoked. I have never did anything with the lungs or spleen, but I know some of the meat products that are ground into meat paste use those parts. Neck bones smoked are absolutely delicious either eaten by themselves or in beans. The rest is by cut unless I have left something out of the least desirable cuts. If you are going to do country hams you really need to leave the skin on and fry those skins as mentioned earlier, if not then just skin it. Don’t forget to render the lard the cracklings are excellent and contrary to popular belief I think the lard makes a superior frying oil.
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So since this is a farm pig and will be humanely dispatched via .22lr to the sweet spot, I am concerned about removing the lead prior to head cheese. Any thoughts on this?
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So since this is a farm pig and will be humanely dispatched via .22lr to the sweet spot, I am concerned about removing the lead prior to head cheese. Any thoughts on this?
Ridley Acres using a solid the bullet should mushroom and remain in one piece that you could extract with just a little effort. I always shot just behind the ear only bone contacted was the neck maybe the very back of the brain.
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Ridley Acres using a solid the bullet should mushroom and remain in one piece that you could extract with just a little effort. I always shot just behind the ear only bone contacted was the neck maybe the very back of the brain.
mrobisr that is how we use to do it
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craigrice and if everything is set up prior, you can shoot, cut the throat, and hang the carcass within seconds and the animal will be bled out completely.
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that is correct and the animal should drop in its own tracks when shot
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So since this is a farm pig and will be humanely dispatched via .22lr to the sweet spot, I am concerned about removing the lead prior to head cheese. Any thoughts on this?
Ridley Acres It has been awhile since we did field to freezer. The info here is spot on. Scraping a hog is an undertaking, good luck with hogs. It is always a learning experience.
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craigrice mrobisr Everything generally says to make a mental x from ears to eyes and where they cross is the target, but you are saying you’ve had good luck with a shot from the side right behind the ear? If you are looking at the pig face to face would you say this would be about 2 o’clock position? Trying to get an idea of the angle you would have been at.
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craigrice mrobisr Everything generally says to make a mental x from ears to eyes and where they cross is the target, but you are saying you’ve had good luck with a shot from the side right behind the ear? If you are looking at the pig face to face would you say this would be about 2 o’clock position? Trying to get an idea of the angle you would have been at.
Ridley Acres Behind the right ear aiming to the left eye for a right handed shooter, the opposite for a lefty
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Ridley Acres Behind the right ear aiming to the left eye for a right handed shooter, the opposite for a lefty
glen Thanks, that’s a great description. That also puts me in a good spot to pass the rifle and get him bleeding.
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Ridley Acres Behind the right ear aiming to the left eye for a right handed shooter, the opposite for a lefty
glen excellent description
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