We killed 6 hogs this year...( Warning the pictures are not for eveyone )

[ghost9mm]

We killed 6 hogs this year and we butcher every year, it's a family and friends thing, it's a hell of alot of work but we do have a great time...and no we don't eat it all we sell alot of it...





We don't scald the hogs anymore we skin them...



These are hog stomachs ( hog maws ) they will be cleaned and the liner will be removed, I know some will turn up their noses at this... but in most cases they will be stuffed with potatoes, sausage,celery, carrots and other veggies, some are stuffed with oysters and other veggies...



Meat reciprocating saw sure beats the hand saw and is alot faster...



These young fellow are cleaning the heads, all meat is removed the tongue are removed as are the brains..



The kidneys are cleaned as are the tongues, some of the tongues will be pickled and the rest will go in the puddin...



It was a great day to butcher, we had a little snow and it was really cold, and that's what you want on butchering day to get the body heat out of the meat...





Meat cutters...



Getting the butcher kettles ready...





Grinding sausage...great grinder...





Sausage stuffing



Getting ready to cook off the scrap meat, nothing goes to waste...



Smoke house...



Packaging meat and vac packing..






Cutting pork chops...



The pots are a cookin...



The meat has been cooked from the bones and this will be drained and carried inside where the women will pick over all of it and get any small bones from the meat and then that meat is ground for puttin and scrapple...



The ladies picking the meat from small bones...



Grinding puddin and scrapple meat...



Putting the corn meal in the scrapple, and you have to keep stirring the pot to keep it from burning and you will think your arms are going to fall off...


Puddin and Scrapple...



Scrapple...


This took 2 full days and you are all invited to help next year... lol...

[devo]

Wow   I will take two pork bellies please  ;D

[Quarlow]

Now that looks like a blast. I used to love it when my wifes BIL would butcher their hunt harvest. We would go over and help out and drink some good drink and cook moose or deer steaks. It would last till late in the night, admittedly on purpose but a goodtime was had by all. Looks like you all have a good time too.

[Ka Honu]

The sausage and offal recipes are slightly different but in Louisiana they call that a Boucherie.  Haven't been to one since I was a kid (before power tools).  Lots of hard work and community, not to mention great food.

[beefmann]

great hunt and  great job cleaning,,, keep up the good work

[SmokinSignals]

Folks just don`t get to spend time with family like that anymore..... you are blessed!  Really neat post.  Showed it off to my co-workers and family.  Thanks again.

[KyNola]

That is awesome G9!  I would have loved to have been there to participate in the Boucherie.  Only thing I have seen noticeably missing are any signs of Blue Mountains. ;)

Great job.

[mikecorn.1]

Impressive!


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[classicrockgriller]

Great pictures and story line.

There was a lot of people helping.

Was that a one day deal?

[OU812]

Now that is allota work,,,,,,,looks like every one was workin hard and I bet it was a long day

[viper125]

Wow, nice operation. Looks like what we did in kentucky but we. Scraped. Not any more though. Lol! Great job with the pics too.

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[3rensho]

All I can say is WOW!!!  Great pix and story.  Thank you for sharing.  It's be fun to take part in something like that.

[Waltz]

That's quite an operation you have going. A far better way of slaughtering and butchering that the big commercial operations. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing your experience.

[SouthernSmoked]

WOW!!! Very Kewl. 8)  Thanks for sharing.

[Keymaster]

Wow, thats a lot of work. Thanks for sharing.