My neighbor has a huge confined feed hog operation and occasionally calls me when they have a hog or two that has a minor injury as the packing houses won't take them. It's usually a bum leg or a rupture. The meat is fine, but they need to get rid of them so we get them for free.
Picked up two 200 pounders this morning, killed, skinned, gutted, cleaned up, quartered and have them hanging in the walk in cooler. Will let them chill and firm up a couple days, then process into a bunch of good chops, roasts, loin pieces, ground pork and breakfast sausage. Only thing we will have in these is the cost of the vac seal bags and spiced to make sausage.
