Details for Ordering Whole or Half Hog

One of the advantages of purchasing a whole or half hog is that you can have all the cuts exactly the way that suits your family’s menu. You can have the pork chops cut the thickness you desire, you can order hams or no hams, have more sausage made out of what would be hams, etc. The butcher will tell you what cuts come off a half hog and help you with the decision process.

We take our hogs to Winchester Meat Locker in Winchester, Kansas for butchering. You will pick up your meat from the butcher after it is cut, shrink-wrapped, and frozen..

The butcher fee for a whole hog is $34.00, and half hog butcher fee is $17.00. Additionally, there is $.42 cent/lb processing fee for the hanging weight. The hanging weight is dead weight, with the head and skin removed. If you want bacon or ham (which is not required, but is your choice) the curing is $.50/lb. and sausage seasoning is $.50 cents/lb. Our whole/half hog price is $3.57/ lb, in addition to the butcher rate. Prices subject to change without notice.

We require a non-refundable deposit on half and whole hogs. Once this fee is received, we will reserve your half or whole hog. Half hog deposit is $100.00, and a whole hog deposit is $250.00.

Rule of thumb for freezer space: 35 lbs. of meat requires 1 cubic feet of freezer space, which is about the size of a milk crate.

Our pigs average 250 pounds live weight, which is approximately 175 lbs. hanging weight, so one half would approximately 87.5 pounds. Here is an approximate sampling of what a half hog will supply. All cuts are not listed and all numbers are approximate.

• • 8 lbs. sausage – you can have more cut if you do not want other parts
  • 1 neckbone
  • 4 lbs. bacon – you can have this put into sausage
  • 2 hams
  • 3 ham steaks
  • 1 ham hock
  • 1 rib
  • 3-4 pork roast
  • 15 pork chops