MOPanfisher Posted Sunday at 03:30 PM Posted Sunday at 03:30 PM Pretty good job of skinning considering it's hanging. Used to butcher quite a few but we skinned them laying down, thought it was easier but that apparently work well for ya.
oneshot 1 Posted Sunday at 09:33 PM Author Posted Sunday at 09:33 PM Actually they was kinda hard to skin had to pull and use knife all the way down. oneshot
MOPanfisher Posted Sunday at 10:15 PM Posted Sunday at 10:15 PM 38 minutes ago, oneshot 1 said: Actually they was kinda hard to skin had to pull and use knife all the way down. oneshot Hide don't peel off a hog like it does a beef or deer. The first one I but hered we did hanging up and it looked like we had skinned it with a chopping axe. Then a guy who has just been watching us said ya want me to show you how to do it? Found out he had grown up in a family run slaughterhouse.
tjm Posted Monday at 01:27 AM Posted Monday at 01:27 AM Might use a hammer against the hide like I do with coyotes. Grandpa's generation wouldn't butcher a hog until it got close to 500#, can't render much lard off them baby pigs. Just thinking about it I tastee them cracklins. They also believed that the meat would cure better with hide on and scraped every hog they butchered. I don't know of anyone that even has a smokehouse these days.
dblades Posted Monday at 03:12 AM Posted Monday at 03:12 AM We butchered a few when I was a kid, Grandad left the hide on.
MOPanfisher Posted Monday at 11:59 AM Posted Monday at 11:59 AM When it comes to Ham n beans ain't nothing like a chunk of hog with the hide in. That fat and hide take it to a whole different level. I have never scraped a hog, we skinned em all, but I can see where pre refrigeration the hide would add another layer to protect the meat.
oneshot 1 Posted Monday at 07:22 PM Author Posted Monday at 07:22 PM I cured bunch of Hogs always Scraped them. We would do about 8 Hogs a day. We would cure Deer to. Leave the Hide on swab it out with brine. oneshot
MOPanfisher Posted Monday at 07:45 PM Posted Monday at 07:45 PM I did cure a deer hind quarter once. I wasn't impressed. Buddy "corned" some and it was good but more work than it was worth.
oneshot 1 Posted Monday at 08:25 PM Author Posted Monday at 08:25 PM 36 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said: I did cure a deer hind quarter once. I wasn't impressed. Buddy "corned" some and it was good but more work than it was worth. You know back then it was colder. I would take gutted Rabbits hang them in the shed where they froze. Want Rabbit go to the shed skin couple out. oneshot MOPanfisher 1
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