We've had sausage done in the past but little by little we add to the butchering process. Put in a smoke house and butcher room and now we can do every process ourselves. I'm with alot of others, if you're going to kill it there is no one else that will clean out all the hair from your gamelike you do yourself. There is an added satisfaction in doing the whole process. I get more out of packing and dragging my own animal if I can. It's just part of a job well done. I enjoy writing on the package whose it is. One year I put on my husband's deer T-buck which stood for trophy buck our son joked that it stook for tough buck. That deer was a 8-9 year old blacktail and we couldn't taste any difference from the younger bucks. It's all in getting the meat cooled, all the hair, and fat off. We plan on doing our own pig this month also for the first time.