Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Hog butchering day!

Here at the redneck homestead, we butcher our own meat, process and pack it up for our freezer, it's so nice to know where your meat is coming from and what is going into it, we raised these ourselves in our little red barn, fed only scraps and some grain, so we know exactly what we are eating!

Better close your eyes if you don't get into butchering cuz this isn't a clean blog
 one shot, gut them, skin them
 lop the head off
 dig out the innerds you intend to use for krepple/scrapple making later
 try to keep the dog from getting into the junk pile
then start the cutting process, first we slice it in half, right down the backbone, making them manageable to get into the basement where we have the tables & saws setup to start cutting out the roasts, hams, bacon, chops, etc

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