This is where you can reserve a whole hog to be raised for you!
Here is how it works:
We will keep back one of our piglets born here to raise over the next 6-8 months until they reach about 300lbs +/- live weight.
Final price is based on hanging weight (approx 75% live weight) and is $4.75/lb.
How Does Buying a Butcher Hog Work?
First, take deposits for whole and half hogs so we know how many piglets to retain. A hog requires a $100 non-refundable deposit to hold it for you, which will be put towards the final total.
We raise the pig for approximately 6-8 months here at the farm.
When they are large enough to butcher (usually around 250-300 lbs live), we deliver them to our butcher shop to be slaughtered and processed. We cannot let customers choose the butchershop as we take in many hogs at a time and it gets too time consuming and expensive travelling to different butcher shops on different days, they usually require a lot of notice to book into, and it is stressful on the pigs to be sorted multiple times.
We will provide you with contact info for the butcher shop, as well as give them yours. You will be responsible for contacting them within 1-2 days MAX to give them your cut/wrap, smoking and curing instructions. Otherwise, they will cut it how they see fit.
The day after delivery, we will get hanging weights of each pig (which is usually about 75% of their live weight), which we will relay to you. This is what we use for our price. You will be required to pay this when it's given to you. Remember, butcher fees are separate and paid directly to the butcher shop.
In about 1-2 weeks, your pork will be ready for pick-up. Buyers are responsible for picking up their own meat and paying for any processing fees directly to the butcher shop.