Pork price

[nwwanderer]

Might be time to stock up.  Real world live hog prices dropped below $.30 this week, whole hog less than $100.

[Special T]

Wow! That's a deal!

[jennabug]

Tag.  I recently bought a half share of a pig from a local guy, my first time.  I'm paying $2/lb on hanging weight plus half of kill and wrap.  The .30 must be commercial/wholesale? 

[jackelope]

Tag.  I recently bought a half share of a pig from a local guy, my first time.  I'm paying $2/lb on hanging weight plus half of kill and wrap.  The .30 must be commercial/wholesale? 

Live weight, guts intact I think.
@Whitpirate  ?

[benhuntin]

Pork has the best recovery rate for meat to loss. But yes it is live weight.


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[Buckmark]

Tag.  I recently bought a half share of a pig from a local guy, my first time.  I'm paying $2/lb on hanging weight plus half of kill and wrap.  The .30 must be commercial/wholesale? 

Live weight, guts intact I think.
@Whitpirate  ?

Jenna, 2 bucks a pound hangin weight is a good deal depending on the pig...

[jennabug]

Thank you. Yeah, I was suspecting live weight too.

It's a good pig, though I forget the details.  I buy my chicken feed from the guy and he blends it himself: no wheat, corn or soy.  I think he still has a few halves at $2.25 (the $2 may have been a 'good customer' deal, but I can check). If anyone wants contact info, PM me and I can ask what's left.

[brew]

this makes me very curious...when i was raising hogs it took me between 900-1,000 pounds of feed to raise one up to about 350 lbs live weight.  After slaughter (around $70 each) the 1/2's hung around 115 lbs each.  I think i sold mine for about $2.50-2.60 / lb hanging (including slaughter) and the cut/wrap was 60-70 cents per pound extra (smoking the bacon/hams were about $1/per pound on top of that).  don't know how someone can raise a whole hog up to that weight for $100...not a hog that i would want to eat anyway.

[jennabug]

Maybe it's the area's market too?  The kill fee is going to be $55.  And it's more of a hobby/passion for the guy, it's not his main career so he may be undercharging.

I definitely don't want to know what the .30 hogs have been eating.  Our food economy and regulation is big part of why I'm learning to hunt.

[bowhunterty]

Just paid $267 for half a pig, cut and wrapped. 91lbs

[brew]

Maybe it's the area's market too?  The kill fee is going to be $55.  And it's more of a hobby/passion for the guy, it's not his main career so he may be undercharging.

I definitely don't want to know what the .30 hogs have been eating.  Our food economy and regulation is big part of why I'm learning to hunt.

copy that on the area's market...east side is definately different than "Seattle-ish".  my thoughts were on raising pigs is that if i could sell 6 it would cover the costs for mine...cost only-you can't factor in your time---feeding them 2x a day every day for 6-7 months, making sure they have a clean water supply, fixing fences, wrangling jail break pigs ( a couple 300 lb pigs can destroy most any fencing you put up--you can electrify it but they learn if they root the ground up to the fence it will short it out and they will take off to the neighbors garden)... i do miss it though-loved raising me some pigs- hell i would get in the pen and scratch their ears and they would roll over so i could scratch their belly's.  can't wait until my new house is built and i can once again start raising them

[nwwanderer]

Normal market weight now days is 270# or so.  That is $81 for a ready to eat pig, figure out your own processing or do it yourself for your sausage projects. 

[GBoyd]

Ok, I want to buy a pig.

Where do I go to get one at $.30/lb? Is that a livestock auction?

Any other suggestions where I can go? I don't mind picking up a live pig and taking it home to process.

[Birdguy]

It is darn tough to buy an 8 week old pig for $100 anywhere around here! I would buy any butcher hog I could find for $100. We have raised 4-8 piglets each fall for the last several years for family and friends with the cost of the piglet and feed it comes out to $2.20ish a pound. Butcher and cut/wrap on top of that.

[KFhunter]

Ok, I want to buy a pig.

Where do I go to get one at $.30/lb? Is that a livestock auction?

Any other suggestions where I can go? I don't mind picking up a live pig and taking it home to process.

I've never done it for hogs, I've bought auction cattle be never anything else.

http://www.clmauctions.com/livestock-auctions/

Also on First Saturday of Every Month

— 11:00 start for pigs, goats, and sheep
— 1:00 start for cattle
 Any questions, please call 360-748-3191.

SELLING PIGS, GOATS & SHEEP AT CHEHALIS LIVESTOCK MARKET

This sale is located in small barn on south end of parking lot. This sale starts at noon on Fridays and 11am on FIRST Saturday of every month. Please have Wash State Transport (Haul Book) Slip completed. Print clearly please. You may purchase a book of 25 haul slips for $5. Delivery ONLY on sale day starting at 8 am. Scrapie Tags are required by the State of Washington in all goats and sheep. If you do not have your animals scrapie tagged we will do this for $2 per head. You may obtain your own scrapie tags through the state. Info in office. Animals will have back tags applied and put in pens to sell. On Fridays the checks are available 30 min after animals sell, First Saturday of month sales checks will be available starting at 1pm.

show up early if you don't have a number or registered beforehand.

[SniperDanWA]

Be careful at the auctions.  I worked in one years ago.  They'll slip one in on you if you aren't watching.  Also, it will be hard to buy singletons.  You usually buy a lot.  If you have others interested in pigs or have room, it can work in your favor.  The singletons they sell at auctions are usually not worth purchasing.

[Whitpirate]

Good luck.  I raise a much different product and have high feed costs etc.... cheap food is killing farming.  Better prepare to eat Chinese products.

[carpsniperg2]

Also don't know if its been said. You do not know the vaccination history on the animals sold. So I would no recommend getting a animal and killing it right off the bat. Some vaccines are harmful to humans. If you are going to buy it and put 30-60 days of finish on a animal then you should be ok. I know a few wormers say do not kill and eat for 90 dayos.

[Southpole]

We raised 6 hogs this year. We sold 5 hogs at $3.50 a pound with no cutting/wrapping or kill fee. Everyone was more than happy to pay that as our pork doesn't taste like the pig pen they were raised in, we feed them hog grower grain only (zero scraps), fresh clean water at all times and they have a perfect amount of fat on them when they are finished which is an average hanging weight of 275 pounds. We made enough money to cover weiner pig purchase, feed cost, our 1 hog paid for and around $900 in our pocket. Plus we cut and wrapped our own hog which helped with our cost. Brew, hope you get to raising hogs again, I agree, they are very entertaining to have. We look forward to start our next batch this April, can't wait!

[Southpole]

Good luck.  I raise a much different product and have high feed costs etc.... cheap food is killing farming.  Better prepare to eat Chinese products.

Agreed! Chinese raised pork... 

[KFhunter]

Good luck.  I raise a much different product and have high feed costs etc.... cheap food is killing farming.  Better prepare to eat Chinese products.

Also don't know if its been said. You do not know the vaccination history on the animals sold. So I would no recommend getting a animal and killing it right off the bat. Some vaccines are harmful to humans. If you are going to buy it and put 30-60 days of finish on a animal then you should be ok. I know a few wormers say do not kill and eat for 90 dayos.

We raised 6 hogs this year. We sold 5 hogs at $3.50 a pound with no cutting/wrapping or kill fee. Everyone was more than happy to pay that as our pork doesn't taste like the pig pen they were raised in, we feed them hog grower grain only (zero scraps), fresh clean water at all times and they have a perfect amount of fat on them when they are finished which is an average hanging weight of 275 pounds. We made enough money to cover weiner pig purchase, feed cost, our 1 hog paid for and around $900 in our pocket. Plus we cut and wrapped our own hog which helped with our cost. Brew, hope you get to raising hogs again, I agree, they are very entertaining to have. We look forward to start our next batch this April, can't wait!

Good luck.  I raise a much different product and have high feed costs etc.... cheap food is killing farming.  Better prepare to eat Chinese products.

Agreed! Chinese raised pork... 

Be careful at the auctions.  I worked in one years ago.  They'll slip one in on you if you aren't watching.  Also, it will be hard to buy singletons.  You usually buy a lot.  If you have others interested in pigs or have room, it can work in your favor.  The singletons they sell at auctions are usually not worth purchasing.

absolutely agree with all above and as I've said never bought auction pork.  I'm tired of holding them through the winter so since I'm already setup for FFA hogs -but kids aren't showing hogs anymore, switching to steers- I'm going to just buy wieners in the spring, butcher in the fall, and not hold any in the winter.  I can't sell/consume enough to justify breeding when there's such a glut of hogs on the market and prices this low.  In fact I'm going to sausage my breeders sometime next month when I'm out of feed.  Going to have some stuffed freezers!

Prices being what they are though just buying from a reputable breeder that raises the product you want is very doable too.

[Whitpirate]

Yeah my sows are sausage soon

[Firedogg]

Probably why the store in Eatonville had pork shoulders at .69 a pound last week.

[Bean Counter]

Also don't know if its been said. You do not know the vaccination history on the animals sold. So I would no recommend getting a animal and killing it right off the bat. Some vaccines are harmful to humans. If you are going to buy it and put 30-60 days of finish on a animal then you should be ok. I know a few wormers say do not kill and eat for 90 dayos.

I thought vaccines are harmless. That's what they promised when they wanted to inject my newborns with all kinds of needles