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Pioneering Today-How to Butcher a Whole Pig for a Roast-Part 1

January 9, 2013 by Melissa Norris 9 Comments

After asking several of you if this would be a subject of interest, the answer was yes. The video is done as tastefully as I could while still showing you how to do things.

The pioneers had to butcher their own meat and while you can go to a butcher, we prefer to do things ourselves if we can. Below is the video link to show you how to butcher and prep a whole pig for a pig roast. It starts after the pig is shot and bled, beginning with the scraping off of the hair.

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Filed Under: Livestock, Pigs, Raising Your Own Food Tagged With: butcher a whole hog, home butchering, homesteading, how to butcher, pig roast, pigs, Pioneering Today, prepper, survival

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