wild hog?

[atcNick]

You guys ever make sausage from wild hog? Are they too lean? Anything else I should know about before I decide?

[DATsBBQ]

If its lean, which I suspect it is, I'd add a bunch of pork fat.

[ChileFarmer]

Nick we sometime make sausage from them. If its to lean we use bacon ends and pieces. You can buy a box pretty cheap at most stores. CF

[Rooster]

never made it myself but friends have, they just add in some pork fat. I am hopeing they kill me a pig or three this year to stock up the freezer

[atcNick]

My wife's coworker offered to kill me a hog and butcher it for me. Thinking about making sausage and maybe a ham.

CF, Are the bacon ends you're talking about already cured pieces or raw pork belly? I guess I've never seen this in the stores. Do you have to ask the meat guy for it?

[tex_toby]

We made up a batch of Wild Hog Andouile sausage this spring at PapaTom's Sausage Get-Together. I brought the wild hog and we did have to add about 20% fat into it because it was so lean. It turned out most excellent!







Gumbo was a natural fit


tex

[ChileFarmer]

Yeah nick, regular bacon just that they are the trimmings. I see them in the meat counter, haven't had to ask for them. But you might if you don't fine them.

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[ChileFarmer]

Tex, good looking sausage. I would chow down some of that. CF

[JaCK2U2]

deer season starting soon, so the slaughter house in Emory will have pork fat. Think it was like $1 or $1.25 a pound.