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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,988
    Hungry Joe said:

    @SGH thanks for bringing back some fond memories for me.
    My pleasure brother. Give me a little bit and I'm going to post the whole thing. Looks like I have about 100 pics, give or take a little. 

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  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    Getting hungry right about now.

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

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  • onedbguru
    onedbguru Posts: 1,648
    Been there done that.  I remember seeing "hog killing time" when I was 6-7 yrs old. My Dad said it wasn't until he was grown and married before he realized that Thanksgiving Day WASN'T just hog killing day.  I can still smell and taste the fresh salt/pepper-cured bacon (cut as needed every morning).  

    I worked for Cargill Meats (aka Excel, Ranchers Choice, etc...) and spent a day watching a cattle slaughter line.  Very impressive. One of their plants does around 6K-10K head/day.  
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  • Thatgrimguy
    Thatgrimguy Posts: 4,738
    onedbguru said:
    Been there done that.  I remember seeing "hog killing time" when I was 6-7 yrs old. My Dad said it wasn't until he was grown and married before he realized that Thanksgiving Day WASN'T just hog killing day.  I can still smell and taste the fresh salt/pepper-cured bacon (cut as needed every morning).  

    I worked for Cargill Meats (aka Excel, Ranchers Choice, etc...) and spent a day watching a cattle slaughter line.  Very impressive. One of their plants does around 6K-10K head/day.  

    I can handle knowing it happens. I don't think I could watch a slaughter line and I know I couldn't work one.
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,988
    onedbguru said:
    I worked for Cargill Meats (aka Excel, Ranchers Choice, etc...) and spent a day watching a cattle slaughter line.  Very impressive. One of their plants does around 6K-10K head/day.  
    It's hard to compete with modern mechanized slaughterhouses. But for a broken down old man using a 40 year old wore out knife, 4 live hogs killed and took down to a headless carcass in 1 hour and 48 minutes is not to bad my friend. The only modern luxury I had was a tractor.   

    Location- Just "this side" of Biloxi, Ms.

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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    Not bad at all @SGH, strong would the proper word, strong brother.
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    We used to do a pig slaughter in high school with the FFA kids. Nothing like fried tongue as a post-breakdown snack.
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    @Eggcelsior, need you to post that fried tongue recipe brother!
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • YEMTrey
    YEMTrey Posts: 6,835
    edited December 2015
    I did a hog slaughter one night.  It was more a dare from some friends I was out with at the bar.  She had a cute face and was open for anything so that helped.
    Steve 
    XL, Mini Max, and a 22" Blackstone in Cincinnati, Ohio
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    @YEMTrey, did you wear a condom or do you wonder to this day if there's a YEMpiglet out there?
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,988
    edited December 2015
    Eggcelsior said:
    We used to do a pig slaughter in high school with the FFA kids. Nothing like fried tongue as a post-breakdown snack.
    I didn't steal the tounge. But I did sneak off with a few livers and hearts. Hey, I earned them my friend =)

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  • YEMTrey
    YEMTrey Posts: 6,835
    bgebrent said:
    @YEMTrey, did you wear a condom or do you wonder to this day if there's a YEMpiglet out there?
    She was my brown eye girl.
    Steve 
    XL, Mini Max, and a 22" Blackstone in Cincinnati, Ohio
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  • DMW
    DMW Posts: 13,836
    @SGH - Just wondering, did you save any blood? I've never had blood sausage and since it's not legal for sale, wondering if you saved any for future projects.
    They/Them
    Morgantown, PA

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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    YEMTrey said:
    bgebrent said:
    @YEMTrey, did you wear a condom or do you wonder to this day if there's a YEMpiglet out there?
    She was my brown eye girl.
    Applies:
    http://youtu.be/bZG2o8ZLFUY
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,988
    DMW said:
    @SGH - Just wondering, did you save any blood? I've never had blood sausage and since it's not legal for sale, wondering if you saved any for future projects.
    No sir, I did not. Brother D, I really didn't have anyone with me to help out other than holding legs or washing carcasses with fresh water. I was on my own for the most part. With 4 hogs at hand, I really didn't have time to catch, strain and store the blood properly. As such, I just bled them out on the ground. If you are wanting some fresh blood, I'm slaughtering 2 more next weekend. I will gladly catch it and ship it to you if you want it. It will have to ship cold and as such it will be semi coagulated. You can easily thin it back out though. 

    Location- Just "this side" of Biloxi, Ms.

    Status- Standing by.

    The greatest barrier against all wisdom, the stronghold against knowledge itself, is the single thought, in ones mind, that they already have it all figured out. 

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  • DMW
    DMW Posts: 13,836
    SGH said:
    DMW said:
    @SGH - Just wondering, did you save any blood? I've never had blood sausage and since it's not legal for sale, wondering if you saved any for future projects.
    No sir, I did not. Brother D, I really didn't have anyone with me to help out other than holding legs or washing carcasses with fresh water. I was on my own for the most part. With 4 hogs at hand, I really didn't have time to catch, strain and store the blood properly. As such, I just bled them out on the ground. If you are wanting some fresh blood, I'm slaughtering 2 more next weekend. I will gladly catch it and ship it to you if you want it. It will have to ship cold and as such it will be semi coagulated. You can easily thin it back out though. 
    Thanks for the offer, no need to ship, I have a butcher shop not too far from here I think I can talk into saving some blood for me when I'm ready to give it a go on blood sausage. But thanks for the offer again, I really appreciate it.
    They/Them
    Morgantown, PA

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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    If you are going to make blood sausage, make morcillas. Blows everything else away.
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  • U_tarded
    U_tarded Posts: 2,083
    DMW said:
    @SGH - Just wondering, did you save any blood? I've never had blood sausage and since it's not legal for sale, wondering if you saved any for future projects.
    When I was a kid the Knights of Columbus would do a sausage night fundraiser.  Blood sausage was one of the offerings because most people in the community were farmers or ranchers.  I loved it but haven't had it in 15+ years.  
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  • Dave in Florida
    Dave in Florida Posts: 1,157
    I love animals, I have done my share of wild animal rehabs and releases.  Currently have a one wing one leg Bluejay, that will never fly, that was brought to me as a baby and now lives as a adult bird with our family.  So seeing animals harmed and suffering bothers me a lot.  So YES, post it up!  I might learn something about preparing an animal I hunt, cook, serve next to the taters and eat.
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  • Toxarch
    Toxarch Posts: 1,900
    I've seen it done first hand in the slaughter area of a pork processing plant. They offered to let me run the gun but I declined. We have used the blood while catfishing. Worked OK but didn't congeal enough to work great like it should. 
    Done plenty of skinning and quartering wild hogs. Have a ton of wild hogs in Texas. Cleaning them is not that fun to do.
    Aledo, Texas
    Large BGE
    KJ Jr.

    Exodus 12:9 KJV
    Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

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  • Roadpuke0
    Roadpuke0 Posts: 531
    DMW said:
    SGH said:
    DMW said:
    @SGH - Just wondering, did you save any blood? I've never had blood sausage and since it's not legal for sale, wondering if you saved any for future projects.
    No sir, I did not. Brother D, I really didn't have anyone with me to help out other than holding legs or washing carcasses with fresh water. I was on my own for the most part. With 4 hogs at hand, I really didn't have time to catch, strain and store the blood properly. As such, I just bled them out on the ground. If you are wanting some fresh blood, I'm slaughtering 2 more next weekend. I will gladly catch it and ship it to you if you want it. It will have to ship cold and as such it will be semi coagulated. You can easily thin it back out though. 
    Thanks for the offer, no need to ship, I have a butcher shop not too far from here I think I can talk into saving some blood for me when I'm ready to give it a go on blood sausage. But thanks for the offer again, I really appreciate it.
    Look around you can find blood sausage in the retail market. Not as good as fresh made but something to try to see if it your thing. Pretty sure it's called kishka and my dad use to cook for us low and slow with a crap load off onions., little ketchup and good to go. Almost like liver sausage if I was to compare to something.
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    Eggcelsior said:
    YEMTrey said:
    bgebrent said:
    @YEMTrey, did you wear a condom or do you wonder to this day if there's a YEMpiglet out there?
    She was my brown eye girl.
    Applies:
    http://youtu.be/bZG2o8ZLFUY
    :rofl: 
    Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179

    DMW said:
    SGH said:
    DMW said:
    @SGH - Just wondering, did you save any blood? I've never had blood sausage and since it's not legal for sale, wondering if you saved any for future projects.
    No sir, I did not. Brother D, I really didn't have anyone with me to help out other than holding legs or washing carcasses with fresh water. I was on my own for the most part. With 4 hogs at hand, I really didn't have time to catch, strain and store the blood properly. As such, I just bled them out on the ground. If you are wanting some fresh blood, I'm slaughtering 2 more next weekend. I will gladly catch it and ship it to you if you want it. It will have to ship cold and as such it will be semi coagulated. You can easily thin it back out though. 
    Thanks for the offer, no need to ship, I have a butcher shop not too far from here I think I can talk into saving some blood for me when I'm ready to give it a go on blood sausage. But thanks for the offer again, I really appreciate it.


    Mr Wenger, your blood is here....
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  • jabam
    jabam Posts: 1,829
    I'm a little slow in the head, but did I miss the butcher posts? All I see is the liver and heart pics. 
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,988
    edited December 2015
    jabam said:
    I'm a little slow in the head, but did I miss the butcher posts? All I see is the liver and heart pics. 
    You didn't miss it. I'm going to do a new post. Been real busy. I had to let the carcasses hang and cool over night to chill so I could debone the meat. Have you ever tried to debone hot meat? It doesn't work so well. Been working on that all morning. Also broke out the salt box and have 220 pounds of meat curing now. These things take time my friend. 

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  • SkinnyV
    SkinnyV Posts: 3,404
    We will all be a limp carcass one day just the same brother @SGH....cheers to that. Well done sir!
    Seattle, WA
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  • sandman98
    sandman98 Posts: 9
    post the pics/video. add a disclaimer that it may be graphic. no forum member is forced to click the link...
    some of us may find it informative.
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    Reminds me of this:

    https://youtu.be/blyUtVUpXLQ

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,988
    sandman98 said:
    post the pics/video. add a disclaimer that it may be graphic. no forum member is forced to click the link...
    some of us may find it informative.
    I have the thumbs up to post pics, even the graphic ones. But video is a no go due to the nature of the content. I don't really see the difference myself, but the buffalo has the final say. As such, I will load video to a couple of other forums for those interested in seeing the dark side of the process. 

    Location- Just "this side" of Biloxi, Ms.

    Status- Standing by.

    The greatest barrier against all wisdom, the stronghold against knowledge itself, is the single thought, in ones mind, that they already have it all figured out. 

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  • Smoker317
    Smoker317 Posts: 238
    What other forums?

    Egghead since November 2014, XL-BGE & ET-732
    Smobot
    Living near Indy
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