In the Lancaster farm newspaper

larry@stinescorner · Apr 22, 2020

In the classifieds,,there was a add last week,,It comes out on Saturday,,but I dont get the paper in the mail until Monday,,and I Read it yesterday.

Feeder pigs for sale,,,20 dollars for over 10,,25 dollars for under 10 Hundreds of A1 feeder pigs available,,Berks county Pa,,will deliver to Lancaster area

4520BW · Apr 22, 2020

going to raise your own pork? you could feed the turnips and garden scraps, make for some cheap food.

larry@stinescorner · Apr 22, 2020

would like to,,neighbors in NJ Would frown a bit,,,lol

Geo-TH,In · Apr 22, 2020

What would turnip seasoned pork taste like?
Chicken

Tony in SD · Apr 22, 2020

Put one in a smoker all day long. Your neighbors will all be your friends. Well except for the drooling vegetarians. What more could I say.

Traditional Farmer · Apr 22, 2020

It'll have a taste unlike the tasteless stuff they sell in the grocery store these days.We used to turn the killer hogs loose in the cornfields over seeded with turnips in the Fall for a couple months before butchering,that was some good meat.Neighbor used to fatten killer hogs on barley he cured some of the best hams I have ever eaten.

Texasmark1 · Apr 22, 2020

A local feed store had their own "Farley's Show Gilt". A corn ration. Having raised hogs on that Corn and Milo....different crop of animals, Corn produced hams that cut clean, muscle tissue clearly visible, meat had an iridescent sheen to it and was delicious. The Milo hogs, same family, different year, had coarse meat, cuts were smeared with little strings remaining on the ends of the muscle tissue, no sheen and taste lacking......get what you pay for.

Geo-TH,In · Apr 22, 2020

So, you had free range pigs like free range chickens? Did your free range pigs make good biscuits and gravey? I had B&G for breakfast.

teddy52food · Apr 22, 2020

Yes, Barley makes good tasting pork. They closed the plant in Worthington Mn. last week. Said they processed 20,000 hogs a day. I hope we don't end up with a wild hog problem????

Traditional Farmer · Apr 22, 2020

Almost all hogs back then were raised out in a field,we had about 10 acres fenced for the feeder pigs and the crop fields were fenced for the most part.When killed we cured
(NOT)smoked the hams,shoulders,side meat and then ground most everything else for sausage.To me the fresh uncured pork sold in stores now is a poor excuse for hog meat.

BarnyardEngineering · Apr 22, 2020

Educate me. Is that a low price?

I don't know much about pork other than how to cook it, and don't know how to read the sales reports.

coshoo · Apr 22, 2020

A guy tried growing hogs on spent brewer's malt from the Olympia Brewery. It was great for dairy cows, but the pork from it was greasy and slimy.

Traditional Farmer · Apr 22, 2020

Live hogs are running around $.44 a lb today so a 200 lb hog would bring $88 so if you had something to feed them it'd be good,if you bought your feed retail not so much.Hogs off the farm ready to kill in the Fall will usually bring more private sale,depends on the area.

Brian G. NY · Apr 22, 2020

(quoted from post at 12:19:05 04/22/20) Put one in a smoker all day long. Your neighbors will all be your friends. Well except for the drooling vegetarians. What more could I say.

How can an animal that smells so bad when alive smell soooo good
when cooking?

Bill Tattersall · Apr 22, 2020

Back in the charter boat days, we had a guy in our marina who fed his hogs all the left over scraps from the fish cleaning table. It resulted in the worst tasting pork you have ever tasted. Unless you liked pork that tasted like spoiled fish.

TAS · Apr 22, 2020

Here in Ohio we sell a few feeders off our farm. We usually get some interest in the spring - people want to raise them in the summer months and butcher in the fall. We've been charging $1.00/lb for 40-50 lb. pigs. This price has not dropped. WE had a few buyers last weekend and have another lined up for this weekend. I have heard they've been selling cheap at the auction barn though. Smaller pigs around 30 lbs. we're getting $1.10/lb for. Most of the people buying these only want about a half dozen - enough for them and some of their friends or family members to fill their freezers this winter.

For fat hogs, like someone mentioned, the price has really dropped low due to the packing plants being closed. That will hurt a lot of people. We were lucky and got a jump on things. We've advertised to sell half or whole hogs and scheduled them at the local butcher. If we were selling the conventional way to the slaughterhouse, we would only be getting about $0.30/lb. As someone mentioned, the price has dropped to $0.44/lb, but that's on the rail, not on foot.

You have to get close to $0.50/lb to have a profitable hog operation.

gene bender · Apr 22, 2020

and you will not like the taste of the finished product. CORN is king and will always be king whether pork,beef or chicken that's a proven fact time and time again.

rustyacres sd · Apr 22, 2020

Local hog producer is selling for butcher hogs for .12 cents per pound. Would get one, but prefer (and will pay more) for dirt raised hog over confinement hog. Leaner and better tasting

rustyacres sd · Apr 22, 2020

Local hog producer is selling for butcher hogs for .12 cents per pound. Would get one, but prefer (and will pay more) for dirt raised hog over confinement hog. Leaner and better tasting. This is in the middle of where the packing plants have been effected by this stupid virus

Glen SW Wi · Apr 22, 2020

Daughter's boyfriend's family gave us some meat from one of their hogs. The family had a septic pumping service. Stuff from septic was just dumped in the hog yard. The dogs wouldn't eat the meat. You can guess how the meat tasted. The flavor tasted like S. Though I have no experience in that area that is what I think it toasted like.

John in Md. · Apr 22, 2020

When I was a kid there were still a few that ran hogs in wood lots to forage on acorns. Start putting corn out in late October and feed grain for 4 weeks and butcher when the temperature cooperated, around Thanksgiving. They said acorns made a stronger taste than chestnuts had in the past, that's why they grained them after acorns for a few weeks.

John in Md. · Apr 22, 2020

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Dick L · Apr 22, 2020

Actually hogs do not smell bad. Horses and cattle have more natural body odor. Their manure is somewhat rank to most people. It is no where as rank as human though. I was raised when a fair amount of farm family's only had out houses. The would clean them and spread the content on the fields. That was tuff stuff I'm here to tell you. Dad had a hog operation and the hog house was cleaned almost daily was didn't smell any worse than the cattle barn. Hogs will not lay in dung unless they have no other place to lay down. Inside hog pens were easy to clean as the pick a corner for that and when they have clean stray the will sleep there. Dad used a garden sprinkler can with half diesel and half used motor oil to sprinkle their straw and the looked as clean as if they had a bath. That was when mud was not a factor which they love to lay in but mud does not normally stink.

john in la · Apr 22, 2020

Put some perspective to that 12 cents. What does a butcher size pig normally sell for??

Brian G. NY · Apr 22, 2020

Dick, I remember all those things including the outhouse.
You're right, a couple of pigs like we raised every year
do not smell that bad. We fed the hogs some feed but also leftover milk, table scraps and plenty of vegetables when in season.
My brother and I had to clean the "hog stall" every day.
When you do that, they will keep an area clean for sleeping.
My Dad bought a pair of red pigs one year....cleanest pigs we ever had......instead of leaving a clean corner in the stall, they did all their business in one corner and left the rest clean.
So.....not meaning to demean pigs in general, I was speaking more of the general perception of them I guess.

ke8wo · Apr 22, 2020

Now that several big slaughter / packing plants are closed, probably for at least a few weeks ... what happens to the swine that are fed out and ready to be processed? Surely will not be like the tens of thousand chickens killed in just the last few days.

Geo-TH,In · Apr 22, 2020

Our baby pigs would go under electric and nurse on cows.

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