We are currently taking deposits for July 17th, 2024 butchering date.
We offer halves and whole hogs each month throughout the year. The date you see above is the next open slot. Once all the slots in that month are booked, we will open up the next month’s slots.
GRAIN-FED PORK
About our grain-fed heritage breed pork: At Sweet Mercy Farms, we raise Yorkshire and Hampshire heritage breed hogs. We feed them only grain: barley, oats, wheat and alfalfa. Because we never slop our hogs, the meat is tender, juicy, lean and delicious. We don’t use any hormones or anti-biotics on our animals, nor pesticides or herbicides on our pastures.
What it costs:
We custom butcher our hogs when they reach about 300 pounds. We feel this is the prime weight, because it is just large enough, old enough and lean enough. The price of the pork is $5.95 / pound based on the actual hanging weight of the hog. You can anticipate about 100 lbs hanging, or $600 for a half hog.
The butcher will hang the pork for about a week. He then takes the sides and cuts the meat to your specifications - bone-in, boneless, thickness, cuts, etc. The actual freezer weight will be about 70% of the hanging weight.
This price includes custom butchering to your specifications, double wrapping and freezing with the cut of pork on each package.
WHAT YOU’LL RECEIVE:
Custom order butchering is included in this price.
Cuts
Whole tenderloin OR bone-in chops OR boneless chops
Country style ribs
Shoulder steaks
Picnic roasts
Butt roasts
Ground pork OR Breakfast sausage OR Italian sausage
Fresh or smoked ham
Fresh or smoked ham steaks
Pork belly OR fresh OR smoked bacon
Spare Ribs
Fresh un-rendered lard, if desired
A $200 deposit will reserve your grain-fed pork.