Sausage yield per lb

[Sailor]

Has anyone calculated or know off hand how many 6 inch links can be made from the 29/32 or 32/35 sized casing?  Just wondering how many sausages could be made from 5lbs of meat.  I would guess the the 29/32 gives 1/2 dia links and the 32/35 gives perhaps 3/4 dia. 

[OU812]

I'm gonna say about twenty 6" links in 32 mm casings with 5 lb of meat.

[KevinG]

Part of the problem is that the casing sizes are really general and not specific. This is why most manufacturers went with collagen casings so they could calculate how much they would get per pound.

[Sailor]

Thank you for the reply's.  I was thinking that each link would be somewhere in the 1/4 lb area but having never made a sausage I was just wondering.

[Tenpoint5]

I usually get about 17 for a 5lb batch.  it all depends on the casings if your using Natural Casings. Some are bigger and some are smaller than what they are supposed to be. My last 25# batch of Brats I only got 98 with the same amount of meat as I normally get 117 with. I didn't do anything different just the casings.

[Habanero Smoker]

I get around 18 - 20 links; depending on how tight I stuff them. Using 32 - 35mm natural casing, it takes me about 10 feet of casing for 5 pounds of sausage (which is close to 5.75 pounds; 5 pounds of meat plus the water and ingredients bring the weight up).

[Roadking]

I get around 18 - 20 links; depending on how tight I stuff them. Using 32 - 35mm natural casing, it takes me about 10 feet of casing for 5 pounds of sausage (which is close to 5.75 pounds; 5 pounds of meat plus the water and ingredients bring the weight up).

I was thinking the same thing. It really depends on what type of sausage your making. Sometimes I do 10 lbs. of meat and my yeild is 12-3 pounds of links.

[Seminole]

Sheep casing, 22 mm, 16 links to a pound
Sheep casing, 26 mm, 14 links to a pound
Hog casing, 32 mm, 8 links to a pound
Hog casing, 36 mm, 6 links to a pound