So glad you are putting real life out for people to see and learn from. The best thing is you know exactly what you are eating. Thanks for keeping the old ways alive.
i'm from metcalf county kentucky a county in the appalachian you can find metcalf listed in counties in appalachia is going to kentucky and go to the ends and you'll see it mountains i really love watching shows on youtube that shows are mountain way of life how we live how we talk or our annunciation of words it's good to watch how people still make old-time quilts and baskets it's always good to see how all of us mountain people are keeping the old mountain way of life going keeping those that we were taught how to do to teach the younger how we survived and how our forebears survived so it's always good to see videos like this keeping the old time way of farming and cannon and smoke in the meat how we have big gardens to get us through the winter so it's good to see these things still going and I'm glad to see these old-time ways still going strong cuz we don't need to let these old time ways to die out the modern way of farming in homestead and it don't work anymore we got to go back to only take what we need go back to living off the land that's the best way of doing it safe and we have to keep those old ways going because kids today have to learn these old ways to survive i know what it means to have a big garden and canning and smoking the meat it's good to see these old-time waves still carrying on does my heart world a good to see you at olde time ways are still going strong
I cannot begin to explain how happy I am to be able to catch up on your channel! We lost our home during hurricane Helene along with my mother's house that lived right below me along with alot more people here in spruce Pine NC. We lived in a tent beside our house for 40 days until God sent us a donated camper. FEMA ain't done nothing no insurance ain't got two nickles to rub together but I do still have my family and faith in God and I no things will get better! Love the channel and thank you for what you do!!
All these modern equipment and saws Sure make it more simpler. My dad and brothers would butcher a couple hogs at a time. And as you say, a lot of work a lot of time. Thank you for sharing and bringing back memories.😊
Thank you so much for making this video. It takes me back to my youth doing this chore myself. My family never had any of the modern equipment that people use today. It was mostly brute strength to get it done. This is the type video that people of today need to see to know how their ancestors lived. Some people may be a little shaky watching, but it is good for their education. I married a city girl for my first marriage and she had never seen anything like it. I was surprised how much she took to this type lifestyle. Oh and the piece of meat you called sweet meat is what i call the filet. Most people of today wouldn't know that. Again thank you for making this type video.
Lordy, I forgot all about the sweet roll! One of my uncles would hand it to me to take in the house and give it to my Grandma. She had biscuits in the oven getting ready for that fresh fried sweet roll biscuits! Got to feed the working people!! Good stuff and Wonderful Memories! That's exactly how we processed our hogs when I was growing up. We made livermush in a wash pot, cooked lard out in another wash pot, pressed the cracklings etc. Thank you for making my day! We did it with our big family as well and it wasn't over until everyone's hog was done. It usually used up a month of weekends. Not to mention all the work that follows processing A LOT of work but well worth it. I'm 67 now and still make my own sausage, lard, fat back, bacon. Most of the family has passed away, but I can't let go of those Wonderful memories and Good Eats!!! The City took in our property so raising hogs are out of the window, but I would if I could!
That brought back so many good memories of my childhood. Grandpa always gave me the job of catching the squeal in a glass jar as the hog was being dispatched so he could add it to the sausage. Those were the days of good family training and values handed down to the next generation. So glad I was able to carry on our family tradition. God bless you all. Thank you kindly.
@@grateful9181 Scrapple and cinnamon rolls served with Grits& Eggs. The meal has to be all home grown and home made because the crap you would buy these day is missing the main ingredient. Love.
I remember calling (from CA) my sister in WA and my then 4 yr old niece answered the phone. I said "hi Bridget, what are you doing?" She replied "we shootin' pigs". My sister and her husband had the equipment on their farm to process pigs and had farmers from the area all processing pigs as a community. So happy to see it's still done! ❤
Wow I can remember helping my grandparents do this when I was little. Watching my grandma cooking cracklings in the big black cauldron outside. I also turned the grinder to make sausage as she fed the meat in. Grandpa did this with the hog hanging from the big china berry tree . I do enjoy watching you all carry on the old traditions .
Outstanding video. Watching Mr. Lawson gut that hog reminded me of Grandpa. He gutted hogs all over Rosebud. That sausage grinder sure beats Grandma's old hand crank grinder. Y'all have a good night and a Happy New Year!
Thank you Meagan for taking time to film this. Definitely something I have never seen. I appreciate the being real and keeping the traditions alive and community.
When I was about 5 or 6, I remember my parents, other family members, friends etc, butchered hogs this way. I got to help slice up meat for cracklings. They were cooked in a large cast iron pot. Great memories!! I'm 73 now. Would love to take part again.
OMG!!!! I have been around this process so many times as a little girl!!! This brings back so many memories. Taking the hair off the hogs was all they would allow my siblings and me to help with 😂but boy was it exciting. My great uncles used hot water and green pine needles?! Not sure why… Megan have you ever seen it done that way? Just curious…Thanks for sharing this Megan. 😊I will be watching this one again!!
I grew up with stuff like this. My daddy had a smoke house. We cooked out cracklins’ in a big old iron wash pot. Yes, things sure have changed since way back then. We used a 100 gallon drum with hot scalding water in it to, scald the hog, then we would scrape it. It was definitely long hard work. Thank you so much for sharing this. It took me down memory lane, of days gone by. ❤
Enjoyed the video! So glad you were able to show the process . We learn alot from you guys. Love the hard work and dedication. Thanks for sharing with us
Absolutely fascinating!! You weren’t lying about the hard work part. But, of course, look what you ended up with. A beautiful bounty of fresh meat!! Good for everyone that contributed!! Very good job. Can you tell I’m a little envious?!?! 😂🥰 I’m a 76 yr old MeeMaw that would LOVE to have some fresh pork!
Thank you Meagan for sharing what you could with us and thank you for keeping our traditions alive! Keep those videos coming, cheers from Eastern NC. vr, Shannon
So, that was one of the most educational video's I've seen in a while, an Alaskan family showed us how to butcher a moose, now I've watched the hog, and they are going to do a caribou, thank you for sharing such awesome information!
I saw what i was most interested in! The leaf fat. I cook with lard but from the grocery store, which is hydrogenated and what i need to get away from. ❤@@TrueGritAppalachianWays
Thank you for sharing your family life. I have a lot of respect for people who work hard like you do! What ya'll did in this video reminds me of what it was like when I was a child. I remember the scalding vat and the neighbors gathering to share the work. Sadly, that's not the way it is where I live now. I'm your neighbor, from about an hours drive south.
I just found your channel and love it! I grew up on a self supporting farm near the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Fifties and early Sixties and remember " Hog Killin' Time" in the late fall. We had a smokehouse and even an outdoor kitchen. My Grandfather cured hams exactly like you do, and we had a giant copper cauldron to render the fat into 'cracklins". I consider myself blessed to have been a witness to this . Keep doing this so others can see. Thank You
I live on the North Carolina and Virginia border , Carolina side ' I'm 60 years old and y'all make me want to cure a ham for the 1rst time in my life 👍🏁🇺🇲
This is amazing Meghan and Andy. What a treasure trove of living history. This is how my Grandparents would have done it and I'm trying to restart (visiting the pig farmer tomorrow who's giving us our piglets in May 😊).
Thank you for sharing, I’m 70, and although I haven’t experienced this. My parents and grandparents, were farming families and would have done this st their farms. All from southeast Kansas and central Missouri
Wow im exhausted just watching how much work goes into everything..awesome job i know you sure are proud ..very well explaining things as well thank-you ❤
Great video! How nice it is to have such an amazing community! There's a lot of work into processing a hog. It's nice to see old traditions being kept alive. It's a shame that most people don't realize where their food actually comes from and the amount of work and time it takes to process your own meat.
That's the way we still process our hogs too. It is a lot of hard work, but it is so worth it. Thank you for sharing this. God bless you all. Happy New Year🎊🎉
😢 Thank you for doing this video ❤ When I was little my Mom took us down home and Grandma and Grandpa had to butcher the hog. After they shot it and brought it to the house we had to leave and get back to Michigan so I missed out on that part of real life. Soon I would love to see the part where you cut up the parts for the sausage 👍🏻 Again Thank both of you for doing your videos....
Another great video. Very knowledgeable for those like me that never grew up around this. Very interesting. Never too old to learn something & I did learn how this way of life is done. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing & I wish y'all & your families a very Happy New Year.
This video will never get old, this is the way it was done way back when and then again today. Thank you Megan for sharing this with everyone, you all will have some fantastic home butchered hog meat with the flavors you all have mixed yourselves. Everything will turn out great the way you have learned and passed on to the future generations. Looking forward to some of the next videos of rendering the lard and canning the meats you get from the hog. Stay safe and have a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Fred and family.
Thank you for sharing what you could with us. Hog killin' time was my favorite time growing up. A lot of my aunts, uncles and cousins would get together and everybody knew what their job was. It was such a good time. I miss those days. This was a treat to watch❤
One of many things I really like about this video. Out of the adults walking around, there was no boss. Everyone was just doing. Like Larry the cable man. GetEr Done ! I would have loved to tried and helped out but no doubt I’d been in the way. Please 🙏 yall keep showing much as you can. We love it.
I don't even know y'all, but i think we are kinfolk. I love doing this kind of stuff. Living off the land. I love seeing the kiddos involved and keeping the tradition going on.
We do the same each year. Something I didn't do growing up and my while my husband's family did he was too young to participate. We inherited his grandad's equipment and carry out the dying tradition each year. It makes my heart happy! We hope to film it this year ❤️
Very interesting video! The knives y’all were using must be incredibly sharp because they seem to cut that meat and skin like butter. Thanks for posting this.
You guys have a nice set up.. LOL we use a 55 gallon drum.. some of ours at times are so big we have to dip them in head first then flip it around and drop them in tail first... lots of work but more meaningful than the big processing plants... great video thanks for sharing
This video brings back wonderful memories from my childhood. We always killed hogs on thanksgivings day at my grandparents house. I still have one of the hog scrapers. It’s wonderful to see that the old ways are being kept alive. Thank you for sharing.
This brings back a lot of memories. I grew up in the middle of North Carolina. My granddaddy built what he called a meat house in the late 1950’s to process hogs. I was born in the early 70’s so I only got to see this a few times. He’d get some fellas to help him and the family and get it done. Then he’d salt and hang up the back flanks for country hams. He passed a long time ago so I had almost forgotten the smell until I was stationed in Spain in the early 90’s. A lot of the bars had cured hams hanging over the bar. The smell immediately brought back a lot of memories. Now I’ve been married to a Spanish lady for almost 28 years and we buy a cured ham every year. I’d love to retire back to a farm but the price of land and houses for a homestead is outrageous nowadays. Where I grew up, we had it all, cows, pigs, goats, chickens, quail and a two acre garden. Hard work but very satisfying
I’ve never had the opportunity or been in the position to process meat. This is in fact the most in-depth video I’ve seen on processing hogs. But, boy do I wish I was born into a community like that. Hard work, but work that is directly for your family and community. Not stuck in an office paying child care to raise your children. Only to get home and throw a packaged meal into the oven. Then sit on your phone ignoring the family you haven’t seen all day. Like so many do these days.
Thanks for showing as many details as you could. I was just a small child the last time I was at a hog killing. I did learn a lot , and it looked like you knew exactly what you were doing and made it look easy even if it wasn't. Thank you!
Hi Megan! Been quite some time since I commented, life has a way of side tracking a person. You all have continued to be in my prayers through this thanksgiving and Christmas and into the new year. Thank you so much for showing this video, I grew up hearing all about Hog killing days from my mom and dad. It is so nice to see what they actually did back in those days. The also talked about how much work it was but was made easy by many hands.the sense of family and community was very present. I really appreciate seeing what it takes to feed your family and gives me even more respect for y’all and what my folks did and went through to survive well . Thanks again sister for everything you do in order to bring us this look into you and your sweet families lives,take care and God bless y’all !
So glad you are putting real life out for people to see and learn from. The best thing is you know exactly what you are eating. Thanks for keeping the old ways alive.
i'm from metcalf county kentucky a county in the appalachian you can find metcalf listed in counties in appalachia is going to kentucky and go to the ends and you'll see it mountains i really love watching shows on youtube that shows are mountain way of life how we live how we talk or our annunciation of words it's good to watch how people still make old-time quilts and baskets it's always good to see how all of us mountain people are keeping the old mountain way of life going keeping those that we were taught how to do to teach the younger how we survived and how our forebears survived so it's always good to see videos like this keeping the old time way of farming and cannon and smoke in the meat how we have big gardens to get us through the winter so it's good to see these things still going and I'm glad to see these old-time ways still going strong cuz we don't need to let these old time ways to die out the modern way of farming in homestead and it don't work anymore we got to go back to only take what we need go back to living off the land that's the best way of doing it safe and we have to keep those old ways going because kids today have to learn these old ways to survive i know what it means to have a big garden and canning and smoking the meat it's good to see these old-time waves still carrying on does my heart world a good to see you at olde time ways are still going strong
Praise the Lord for those who do keep the old traditional ways alive. At some point in time, folks may need to have this knowledge.
I cannot begin to explain how happy I am to be able to catch up on your channel! We lost our home during hurricane Helene along with my mother's house that lived right below me along with alot more people here in spruce Pine NC. We lived in a tent beside our house for 40 days until God sent us a donated camper. FEMA ain't done nothing no insurance ain't got two nickles to rub together but I do still have my family and faith in God and I no things will get better! Love the channel and thank you for what you do!!
My prayers for you and everyone who were devastated by Helene. ❤
God bless yall 🙏
Please tell your neighbors THANK YOU for letting us see some of the older ways things were done !! Maggie and Jacob are very blessed !! ❤❤😊
I think this is the coolest thing. Thank you for sharing your heritage and passing along traditions to the next generation. ❤
I was raised on home grown pork and beef And chicken. And we always had a garden. Just like y'all.
Yep same here had a milk cow three big gardens six kids was a lot of hard work but I wouldn't trade it for nothing! 😊
That old boy, with the short leg, must be a retired surgeon, he's got skills with that knife
Glad you are sharing real life with the world. These kids needs to know where the meat comes from that are in stores. Love yall
The knowledge and skill demonstrated here is truly amazing to this old city boy!
All these modern equipment and saws Sure make it more simpler. My dad and brothers would butcher a couple hogs at a time. And as you say, a lot of work a lot of time. Thank you for sharing and bringing back memories.😊
Brings back fond memories of growing up, appreciate you keeping the old ways alive.
Thank you so much for making this video. It takes me back to my youth doing this chore myself. My family never had any of the modern equipment that people use today. It was mostly brute strength to get it done. This is the type video that people of today need to see to know how their ancestors lived. Some people may be a little shaky watching, but it is good for their education. I married a city girl for my first marriage and she had never seen anything like it. I was surprised how much she took to this type lifestyle. Oh and the piece of meat you called sweet meat is what i call the filet. Most people of today wouldn't know that. Again thank you for making this type video.
Awesome video! Community is precious…tradition and handing down things such as processing pig, chickens, etc. is important
Lordy, I forgot all about the sweet roll! One of my uncles would hand it to me to take in the house and give it to my Grandma. She had biscuits in the oven getting ready for that fresh fried sweet roll biscuits! Got to feed the working people!! Good stuff and Wonderful Memories! That's exactly how we processed our hogs when I was growing up. We made livermush in a wash pot, cooked lard out in another wash pot, pressed the cracklings etc. Thank you for making my day! We did it with our big family as well and it wasn't over until everyone's hog was done. It usually used up a month of weekends. Not to mention all the work that follows processing A LOT of work but well worth it. I'm 67 now and still make my own sausage, lard, fat back, bacon. Most of the family has passed away, but I can't let go of those Wonderful memories and Good Eats!!! The City took in our property so raising hogs are out of the window, but I would if I could!
That brought back so many good memories of my childhood. Grandpa always gave me the job of catching the squeal in a glass jar as the hog was being dispatched so he could add it to the sausage. Those were the days of good family training and values handed down to the next generation. So glad I was able to carry on our family tradition. God bless you all. Thank you kindly.
What is squeal and sweet rolls? Please
@@grateful9181 Scrapple and cinnamon rolls served with Grits& Eggs. The meal has to be all home grown and home made because the crap you would buy these day is missing the main ingredient. Love.
It’s great to see that neighbours still get together and help each other 😊
Great video , workman ship is remarkable , safety always , you folks have a system, team work , thank you for sharing.
I remember calling (from CA) my sister in WA and my then 4 yr old niece answered the phone. I said "hi Bridget, what are you doing?" She replied "we shootin' pigs". My sister and her husband had the equipment on their farm to process pigs and had farmers from the area all processing pigs as a community. So happy to see it's still done! ❤
This is still a regular occurrence here in WA!
@@susanmurten6178happy to hear that ❤btw I moved up here to Spokane 3 years ago. I love living here ❤
Yep, it’s not for everyone, but it sure is for us. Where we live, we are some of the few, who do. Great job, and thanks for sharing !
Love how you patiently explained it so everyone gets the whole way thru ❤️
@@ruthieshipp8787 i really loved the narration style too.
Thanks yall! There just aint enough people left that keep old family traditions alive these days.
I shed a tear Megan. I miss those times so much. I really enjoyed the video the world needs to see more of this.
Meagan, that is exactly how us Cajuns do it.
Such a good time of sharing the work and share in the rewards.
Wow I can remember helping my grandparents do this when I was little. Watching my grandma cooking cracklings in the big black cauldron outside. I also turned the grinder to make sausage as she fed the meat in. Grandpa did this with the hog hanging from the big china berry tree . I do enjoy watching you all carry on the old traditions .
Very Beautiful Family get together.... Thanks for sharing
Absolutely wonderful to see community working this way and a real asset for anybody to know how to do. Thank you for showing this.
Thank You so much, one things for sure you all will never go hungry that's what's up. I love when I see people who know how to live off the land. 👏 💘
Outstanding video. Watching Mr. Lawson gut that hog reminded me of Grandpa. He gutted hogs all over Rosebud. That sausage grinder sure beats Grandma's old hand crank grinder. Y'all have a good night and a Happy New Year!
Y’all are doing a great job. Don’t ever stop that is how we are supposed to be living
Brings back memories of when I was a child we went to our grandparents house and helped with butchering..thankyou
Thank you Meagan for taking time to film this. Definitely something I have never seen. I appreciate the being real and keeping the traditions alive and community.
Ain't many real people left livin a simple yet rewarding as hell lifestyle! Yall make me smile
That is one of the best videos you have ever made. Stay with your way of life.
What a pleasure to watch.
Thanks for sharing. Wish traditions like this was all around. A simpler way of life. Community!
When I was about 5 or 6, I remember my parents, other family members, friends etc, butchered hogs this way. I got to help slice up meat for cracklings. They were cooked in a large cast iron pot. Great memories!! I'm 73 now. Would love to take part again.
OMG!!!! I have been around this process so many times as a little girl!!! This brings back so many memories. Taking the hair off the hogs was all they would allow my siblings and me to help with 😂but boy was it exciting. My great uncles used hot water and green pine needles?! Not sure why…
Megan have you ever seen it done that way? Just curious…Thanks for sharing this Megan. 😊I will be watching this one again!!
I’ve never heard of that! Very interesting!
When I was young my grandfather did this very thing in Canada. I used to help where I could. So great to see that this is still being done.
I grew up with stuff like this. My daddy had a smoke house. We cooked out cracklins’ in a big old iron wash pot. Yes, things sure have changed since way back then. We used a 100 gallon drum with hot scalding water in it to, scald the hog, then we would scrape it. It was definitely long hard work. Thank you so much for sharing this. It took me down memory lane, of days gone by. ❤
Enjoyed the video! So glad you were able to show the process . We learn alot from you guys. Love the hard work and dedication. Thanks for sharing with us
Absolutely fascinating!! You weren’t lying about the hard work part. But, of course, look what you ended up with. A beautiful bounty of fresh meat!! Good for everyone that contributed!! Very good job. Can you tell I’m a little envious?!?! 😂🥰 I’m a 76 yr old MeeMaw that would LOVE to have some fresh pork!
You’re so lucky to have been raised up the way you were,,I really envy you..thank you for sharing
This is great! Thank you very much for documenting this!
Its good to see the kids helping and learning.
Thank you Meagan for sharing what you could with us and thank you for keeping our traditions alive! Keep those videos coming, cheers from Eastern NC. vr, Shannon
So, that was one of the most educational video's I've seen in a while, an Alaskan family showed us how to butcher a moose, now I've watched the hog, and they are going to do a caribou, thank you for sharing such awesome information!
Thank you so much!! Wish I could’ve shown more!
I saw what i was most interested in! The leaf fat. I cook with lard but from the grocery store, which is hydrogenated and what i need to get away from. ❤@@TrueGritAppalachianWays
Thank you for sharing your family life. I have a lot of respect for people who work hard like you do!
What ya'll did in this video reminds me of what it was like when I was a child. I remember the scalding vat and the neighbors gathering to share the work. Sadly, that's not the way it is where I live now.
I'm your neighbor, from about an hours drive south.
Awesome video.
Thanks to everyone
I just found your channel and love it! I grew up on a self supporting farm near the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Fifties and early Sixties and remember " Hog Killin' Time" in the late fall. We had a smokehouse and even an outdoor kitchen. My Grandfather cured hams exactly like you do, and we had a giant copper cauldron to render the fat into 'cracklins". I consider myself blessed to have been a witness to this . Keep doing this so others can see. Thank You
I live on the North Carolina and Virginia border , Carolina side ' I'm 60 years old and y'all make me want to cure a ham for the 1rst time in my life 👍🏁🇺🇲
Beautiful work and beautiful meat. Old school really is the best way.
I found the parts that you were filming very interesting. Thank you for sharing all that you did share.
This is amazing Meghan and Andy. What a treasure trove of living history. This is how my Grandparents would have done it and I'm trying to restart (visiting the pig farmer tomorrow who's giving us our piglets in May 😊).
I love it! So many skilled hands keeping the traditional ways alive! Thank you for sharing and have a blessed New Year❣❣
I just want to say thanks for your videos. Every time i watch them its like i get to go home to my youth
Thank you for sharing, I’m 70, and although I haven’t experienced this. My parents and grandparents, were farming families and would have done this st their farms. All from southeast Kansas and central Missouri
Wow im exhausted just watching how much work goes into everything..awesome job i know you sure are proud ..very well explaining things as well thank-you ❤
Great video! Brings back childhood memories for me. Thank you!!
This was wonderful! Thank God for yall!
This was an AWESOME VIDEO.
Brings back so many memories of days gone by.
Hope to see more like this.
Great video. Brought back memories of my childhood. ❤
Great video! How nice it is to have such an amazing community! There's a lot of work into processing a hog. It's nice to see old traditions being kept alive. It's a shame that most people don't realize where their food actually comes from and the amount of work and time it takes to process your own meat.
That's the way we still process our hogs too. It is a lot of hard work, but it is so worth it. Thank you for sharing this. God bless you all. Happy New Year🎊🎉
😢 Thank you for doing this video ❤ When I was little my Mom took us down home and Grandma and Grandpa had to butcher the hog. After they shot it and brought it to the house we had to leave and get back to Michigan so I missed out on that part of real life. Soon I would love to see the part where you cut up the parts for the sausage 👍🏻 Again Thank both of you for doing your videos....
Did that for year's with my dad and brother hard work but fun times
Another great video. Very knowledgeable for those like me that never grew up around this. Very interesting. Never too old to learn something & I did learn how this way of life is done. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing & I wish y'all & your families a very Happy New Year.
When I was a kid I couldn't wait for butchering day
This video will never get old, this is the way it was done way back when and then again today. Thank you Megan for sharing this with everyone, you all will have some fantastic home butchered hog meat with the flavors you all have mixed yourselves. Everything will turn out great the way you have learned and passed on to the future generations. Looking forward to some of the next videos of rendering the lard and canning the meats you get from the hog. Stay safe and have a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Fred and family.
Great video! Brings back good memories!😊
Super! Belle collaboration des grands et petits, hommes et femmes. Grand respect de l’animal qui se donne à vous. Bon appétit! Salut du Québec!
Thanks for taking us along.
Thank you for showing us your traditions that were past down from your kin folks. Amen in Jesus Christ mighty name Amen 🙏
It’s all about how to survive living the life of a farmer I loved it as a child growing up 😊
Precious memories, thanks for bringing back some fun childhood times.
I remember those days as a young girl. TFS God Bless.
Love the way your community comes together for each other! That’s so wonderful❤️🤗👍
Thank you for sharing what you could with us. Hog killin' time was my favorite time growing up. A lot of my aunts, uncles and cousins would get together and everybody knew what their job was. It was such a good time. I miss those days. This was a treat to watch❤
One of many things I really like about this video. Out of the adults walking around, there was no boss. Everyone was just doing. Like Larry the cable man. GetEr Done ! I would have loved to tried and helped out but no doubt I’d been in the way. Please 🙏 yall keep showing much as you can. We love it.
I did this with chickens, ducks and turkeys. Had my friends help, everybody got to take most of them home.
I love the old ways of living, such a great video!
I would love to learn this Andy, Megan , and I’m a retired submarine chef could cook I a gourmet meal to see this or learn it lol
I don't even know y'all, but i think we are kinfolk. I love doing this kind of stuff. Living off the land. I love seeing the kiddos involved and keeping the tradition going on.
We do the same each year. Something I didn't do growing up and my while my husband's family did he was too young to participate. We inherited his grandad's equipment and carry out the dying tradition each year. It makes my heart happy! We hope to film it this year ❤️
Very interesting video! The knives y’all were using must be incredibly sharp because they seem to cut that meat and skin like butter. Thanks for posting this.
You guys have a nice set up.. LOL we use a 55 gallon drum.. some of ours at times are so big we have to dip them in head first then flip it around and drop them in tail first... lots of work but more meaningful than the big processing plants... great video thanks for sharing
Knowing where your meat is coming from is important. Keep on keepin' on!
Love this ,we did this when I was alot younger,like probably 50 years ago,wish I could still do this
This video brings back wonderful memories from my childhood. We always killed hogs on thanksgivings day at my grandparents house. I still have one of the hog scrapers. It’s wonderful to see that the old ways are being kept alive. Thank you for sharing.
This brings back a lot of memories. I grew up in the middle of North Carolina. My granddaddy built what he called a meat house in the late 1950’s to process hogs. I was born in the early 70’s so I only got to see this a few times. He’d get some fellas to help him and the family and get it done. Then he’d salt and hang up the back flanks for country hams. He passed a long time ago so I had almost forgotten the smell until I was stationed in Spain in the early 90’s. A lot of the bars had cured hams hanging over the bar. The smell immediately brought back a lot of memories. Now I’ve been married to a Spanish lady for almost 28 years and we buy a cured ham every year. I’d love to retire back to a farm but the price of land and houses for a homestead is outrageous nowadays. Where I grew up, we had it all, cows, pigs, goats, chickens, quail and a two acre garden. Hard work but very satisfying
Thank yall for sharing. God bless ❤
I can’t believe you wind all the way through it and you enjoyed every minute of it
That brings back memories from a long time ago. Hope to be back at it again someday. Thanks for sharin.
I’ve never had the opportunity or been in the position to process meat. This is in fact the most in-depth video I’ve seen on processing hogs.
But, boy do I wish I was born into a community like that.
Hard work, but work that is directly for your family and community.
Not stuck in an office paying child care to raise your children. Only to get home and throw a packaged meal into the oven. Then sit on your phone ignoring the family you haven’t seen all day. Like so many do these days.
GLORY TO GOD!!!
Thanks for showing as many details as you could. I was just a small child the last time I was at a hog killing. I did learn a lot , and it looked like you knew exactly what you were doing and made it look easy even if it wasn't. Thank you!
This is some good stuff right here. Respect from Franklin, NC
This didn't gross me out as much as I thought it would. You all treated the hog well all the way to the end.
That was an excellent vidio on this process. All your years experience shows in the way you handled each step of the processing. Thanks
Hi Megan! Been quite some time since I commented, life has a way of side tracking a person. You all have continued to be in my prayers through this thanksgiving and Christmas and into the new year. Thank you so much for showing this video, I grew up hearing all about Hog killing days from my mom and dad. It is so nice to see what they actually did back in those days. The also talked about how much work it was but was made easy by many hands.the sense of family and community was very present. I really appreciate seeing what it takes to feed your family and gives me even more respect for y’all and what my folks did and went through to survive well . Thanks again sister for everything you do in order to bring us this look into you and your sweet families lives,take care and God bless y’all !
Thank you so much for sharing! Very educational for this city girl (but country girl at heart)! ❤