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Post by sirderrin on May 26, 2015 18:35:38 GMT -7
Salt pork is another way to purchase good bacon when you can find the real deal... Well I'll give you a hint where salted pork is very popular to cook with and can be bought at the store by the shoulder and all sliced up. But... I can tell a difference and have switched to bacon. Shoulder? I said real salt pork en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_porkWhile not cured (smoked) the same I like it! Might be cause that is what I was raised on
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Post by olebama on May 26, 2015 18:55:02 GMT -7
I heard that chicken meat, turkey meat, and eggs are going up in price. It should be a very short term spike for chicken and eggs.. They will have a flood of chicken hit the market in roughly 3-4 weeks since they have already replaced all the kill off. The eggs won't be far behind that since most the chickens that where killed off where older birds about to be replaced. We should actually see a fairly decent price decrease in chicken shortly since they will all cycle to market at roughly the same time and not staggered. Least that is the word from the folks I know in the industry I am not sure if many here have noticed here but with the corn glut and hog production back to normal after their kill off a while back pork prices are finally falling again. Bacon! Thank you much for the "inside" info. I had not thought of the life cyle.
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Post by woodyz on May 26, 2015 18:57:03 GMT -7
we still buy hogs chickens and beef on the hoof
our price is then the original cost + food + processing
No subsidies, transportation or middle man costs as we buy the middleman two hogs and a calf for his keeping and transporting ours
works out to about $4.50 to $5 a #
Hamburger or steak, bacon or loin its all the same. This year the butchering process will only costs us what two calfs and two pigs. The butcher can sell them for more than we would have paid him and our cost is about the same.
Even going in and just buying a half of beef or a whole hog is cheaper then a piece at a time
Get some people together find a good farmer/rancher that is like minded, include a butcher in your mix
Seven people 14 hogs, 7 calves, everyone shares in feed costs and puts in a couple of hours one day a week. Hardly any effort or much space required. Pigs go on self feeders and self water system, fill the feeder once a week.
Calves need water 24/7 eat the grass, need about 2 acres each of good grass, 5 if mediocre. Best way is to get two good pastures side by side and let one grow for a month then switch them and repeat. Fill up a hay feeder every Sat. Start feeding them on corn or sweet feed two months before butchering.
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Post by cajunlady87 on May 27, 2015 3:39:43 GMT -7
Well I'll give you a hint where salted pork is very popular to cook with and can be bought at the store by the shoulder and all sliced up. But... I can tell a difference and have switched to bacon. Shoulder? I said real salt pork en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_porkWhile not cured (smoked) the same I like it! Might be cause that is what I was raised on Gotcha, interesting article by the way.
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