Did We Just Waste A Pig
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- Today is the day - After two and half years of growing him out, we’re processing our intact male Mangalitsa pig. And the problem is, this whole pig might be ruined from something called “boar taint”.
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Theres jason from sow the land he always helps everyone love that guy...
hi, just a bit of info on boars, I was a federal meat inspector and worked on the kill line. Every boar had to be smell tested before it could be graded for keep or destroy. We would cut a piecce of belly meat and insert it into boiling water for 5 min, if it stunk, the boar was destroyed, if it smelt sweet, it was approved. you did well to cook it .
I remember that from my dad being a FMI. As well as we also raised our own pigs. Oh memories from childhood
I work on the kill line at a facility, they don't do that there. We make everything into sausage if it's not ham, or ribs.
@hestiasgardenhomestead ... Or bacon?
@@movinon1242 no everything other than ribs and ham go into the sausage vat
Pork cans beautifully.
I also think that the stress of shipping alive pig to get processed could cause the taint to the meat. Because you processed him right there that eliminated stress. Great job!!
Ya'll are just plain good folks! Your family unit is pretty well fine tuned. Work together, eat together, pray together and just plain love each other. I so wish families like yours were the norm rather than the exception. Thank you all so much for allowing us into your life. You are teaching things without even trying. Things that so many of us needed to be taught. Meg, another beautiful meal.. You certainly are a good mama that takes good care of her family. Thanks again and God Bless.
73 yo. from eastern NC. I helped my grand dad process hogs usually 4 or 5 every winter. HE had a vat he made that was probably 8 ft. long and tunneled underneath for wood to heat the water. We had 2 ropes laid across the vat and we rolled the hog into the vat and criscrossed the ropes and agitaied the hog and would roll it out with the ropes . We called it "setting the hair" if the water was too hot. I love what you and your family are doing !! It brings back good memories !! Be Blessed !!
I’m glad to see Jason from Sow the Land. I love the community y’all have built.
Yes it is. I really enjoy watching his laid back videos. Not sure if he means to be amusing but he's fun to watch
I like Jason and his family, too.
Congratulations Hollar Homestead on your successful pig harvest. And, great to see Sow The Land supporting you. Good work, homesteaders!
I was praying for you guys and holding my breath. As soon as you said that it didn't smell I exhaled. So happy for both of you and what you have accomplished. It was nice to see Jason helping you.
Love that Jason came and lent a hand - nice to see how friends and neighbors help each other out! I bet that meat will be wonderful ground and fried up - not even as sausage! Thanks for sharing this today!😊
Your videos are so carefully delivered that even squeamish me, I watched and appreciated your delivery! This is why you and your family are so successful. You take out the mystery of things, such as butchering a pig, and relaying it to mear folk like me. Thank you!!!!
I also loved seeing Jason on your channel. Two hardworking, reliably honest and forward thinking families.
This is the best example of the power of community. Helping each other to learn and grow, then pass on the knowledge! Skills that are so very needed. Well done Hollars!
I think you two would be fantastic teachers! You guys are so thorough in your explanations to us, it only makes sense that you would be great teachers🤗!!
I am definitely not into butchering anyway anyhow but you did this video in such good taste it did not make me feel sick to my stomach. Very well done guys. Blessings to you all. 💕🙏🏻💕
This is probably the most complete information and is going to help so many people understand "timing vs taint" Awesome job! 👊❤
"...you watch the boars and they're slobbering and they're...gross...they're just doing boar things..." HAHA MEG...they're just doing BOY things is what i heard for that split second. Im so glad you explained about boar taint. i have heard of it but the chances of me ever butchering a pig is slim...being only one in my family. but i think knowing your animals is a very key bit of information. great video. Jason is awesome to come and help...many hands make light work right. Well done to Sow the Land for assistance.
My late grandfather's.. one a master butcher the other a sheep farm( he was 82 still lambing 200 ewes) were a joy to watch and help.. nothing like it! Hats off to yall! Much love and respect from North Devon, England x
Thoes scrapers worked so good!! Was it as easy as it looked? This is a hard subject. Thank you for the Respect for the animal, editing and all the great tips!! I appreciate your family for sharing your knowledge. -Melanie
Was so AWESOME seeing Jason from Sow the Land helping you out! Glad the meat is good too!! Great job all of you!!!
I want to thank you for letting us be part of this it's very good for me to learn even if I never use it I still like to learn new stuff thank you again
I had no idea there was such a difference between the USA and us here in Europe in when we decide to butcher, how interesting. You would never butcher whilst sows were in heat, I thought everyone knew that...know your animals, work with your animals....Such an interesting film, thank you and, as always, blessing to your family. ❤
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a little help with heating the drum. that will save some expense on the propane. make a lid out of tin or something and cover it while it's heating up. i've proved that to my wife over and over. hope this helps in the future.
Its great to see your doing well after all the trials and tribulations of the past year or so..Now that your not exhausted from the move and healed from the accident, things look to be moving right along...Congratulations on your success.
Well done guys! Loved seeing Jason along to help too! Awesome job Hollars! ❤️🙏
Love to see Meg make those beautiful biscuits and bread.
Butchering brings back memories.....
Your presentation of butchering was tastefully displayed.
Thanks for sharing....
happy to see Jason there with you...butchering is alot of work
Hi, Ben and Meg! I absolutely LOVE this video. It was good to see Jason too. You are doing so well. We are proud to have you all calling North Carolina HOME!!!
Jason always seems to help out at several different homesteads! Great video!
Thanks Ben and Meg and Jason 💕🙏
I was so excited when Meg said she would teach about rendering lard!😄❤❤👍
Wow, I did not realize Bubbles was so huge!! I actually wondered if boar hog meat tasted different. It was interesting to know the wrong time to harvest was if the female was in heat, otherwise the boar meat tastes good. I didn't realize he was aggressive either. I assumed since you'd had him since he was a piglet that he would be ok to be around. He sure isn't like sweet ole Moe, huh! Thanks so much Jason (@Sow the Land) for your help.
Think I'd be aggressive knowing I was going to get butchered!! 😳
It is a wise man that said "Never turn your back on a boar."
Boar taint is delicious
@@pamt7740 We butchered a Tom turkey BECAUSE he was aggressive... so no, your reasoning is off.
350 lbs isnt that big of a pig,maybe for the breed but not for pigs in general
Well done Ben, Meg and the family members who took part. Another skill well demonstrated.
Thank you so much for showing this!! We had a boar last year and ended up selling him due to taint worries. When researching I also saw an old wives tale about only certain people can smell/taste possible taint, like how some people think cilantro tastes like soap, lol. Who knows if that is true, so much conflicting information about it. You've shown such an important lessons about learning through experience!! So great you have a freezer full of delicious pork now too :)
Cilantro definitely tastes like soap! I don't eat meat so I can't speak about boar meat, but I am one of the minority who can't stand Cilantro. The taste is very strong and very soapy.
I'm someone that can taste boar taint where others can't, I can smell tainted meat in a supermarket or butcher. We raise our own pigs and if a boar is stinky we don't breed from him. A little smell when they are breeding is fine but it should not be overpowering. We had a friend take an old boar from here a week ago and he was very pleased with the clean taste in such an old pig. I love cilantro though LOL
Jason always comes through for all of his friends.
So good 😊😀 pleased to see how it turned out great to see Jason help I'm sure you will be included in his butcher his cows can trade pork chops for beef 🍖 love the 🐱 take care Peter Cape town
Fantastic! Glad it went well, was praying through the process. Great information too !
Could not watch for most of this...but, beginning and end I loved. I just admire you both! It is as if you have been homesteaders since birth!!! God has graced your family and all you do...
Thanks for keeping it real letting us hear the shot and scraping and cutting the pig
We hope to get where you guys are, on OUR new 40 acre homestead in east Texas! It's been VERY HARD to renovate the mobile home we got for free and had haled out there. . Our channel is all reno stuff of rotten doublewide right now lol, homesteading coming soon!
Suburban .... Wishing you all the success in the world.
@@bestofnature-h7i thank you very much! We need all the love we can get on this project lol!!
Hey, (UK here) will have to sub you, I love watching renovations and homesteading - except butcher time ...I feel too sorry for the animals. I prefer pre packages lol).
I remember the last cow my daddy butchered, we did it ourselves and it was a job and so cold.
@@pamt7740 yaaay!! We are glad to have you! We are a really small channel lol, we need all the viewers we can get!
Hey Ben , I’m so happy you were talking about this situation about boar taint. We are those people in this situation. Now we know what to look for I’m so glad bubbles taste good. Can’t wait to see the rest of the processing.
That's awesome. And always good to see Jason.
I have covid and had to sit and online exam, but have been looking forward to this video hopefully coming up all day. Thank you for me not being disappointed and has made my day, as i love watching you guys.
I'm so happy the meat was good. What a great blessing!
Glad y’all are teaching this dying art!
Wow😮 that’s a HUGE bore !!! Nice to see Jason of Sow The Land helping out. Neighbor helping neighbor 👊. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
What an answer to prayers!!!
Blessings!!
I never knew intact boars, in rutting cycle, could taint and ruin the meat. I learned something. Great to see Jason helping you. Friends helping friends. Your 2 boys were great help also. I know you will enjoy your first bacon. Good job all. 💞🎄⛄🎄🎅
Hey Ben, my daddy used to raise pigs and he also hunted for the wild pigs. But he said if you are not sure whether the boar had been around a female in a while but especially if you kill a wild boar, you need to castrate it even before you move it. He said that way it wouldn't be tainted by the smell. So that might help someone to do that if they are not sure to begin with. Take care stay safe and God bless y'all
How wonderful! 🐖 Blessings to all. 🌞🌱❤️
In my part of NC we couldn't leave that boar out all night unless we wanted to feed the local bear. So glad it worked out. Lots of food for the coming year.
Wow Greer, SC 10 minutes away from me. Welcome in March. Love watching you guys. I'm too old to be doing anything you are doing but you a such a blessing. Thank You for being so real and sharing.
That’s my old stomping ground too!
Thanks for clearing up the America vs the world views on harvesting male animals. Interesting. This was awesome! I can't wait for the next video.
I am so so happy for you all. Thanks you for sharing this information , hopefully it will be of use to me in the future.
Another great vlog. Well done as always. 💕💕🌻🌻
This was a very educational video, very tastefully done. I was so glad to see that Bubbles' meat was not tainted. It is interesting to hear that his particular breed has very rich dark meat that reminds one more of beef, rather than pork. It was so very kind of Jason, from Sow the Land, to come help to harvest and partially process Bubbles. Your sons were such a big help in cleaning and scraping, which is such an important step in processing. You would be an excellent teacher of this skill for that March event! Great video!😊❤🐷🐖🐽
Wow, so cool, made me cry. I have a bubbles shirt, so will continue to love him in his absence.
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Love that Jason was there helping out. So cool to see other you tube homesteaders helping each other.
Your boys helping scrape the hair of the pig is so cool! All your boys are so helpful! Good job!
Goodbye Bubbles!
Congratulations. I saw one homesteader fixed one of those kind and they said meat was that color and like beef. I have bought at store and could not eat. We raised pigs when younger amazing what you remember what mom and dad said about how to do things. We salt cured most of our meat. Really good like that. We had a smoke house we canned sausage. in fact doing today
Hello Kathy
That's wonderful! So glad it went well and you'll have plenty of food in the larder.
Another great video! Good to see Jason over helping and the boys joining in! Thanks for sharing!
Been waiting for this video to drop! Yay! Pig Day! Blessings Abound.
Awesome video, nice to see Jason there helping out. Well, it's great that the pork meat was not a waste for y'all..
That cat seems to be Ben's cat from the way it looks adoringly at him. 😻
I hope, your videos are getting entered and better. Great content, great music, whole family action.
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Great job. I wonder if the breed could be a factor in the taint smell in the meat. We have a 1 1/2 year old male hog. He got castrated last week and we have a April process date. Our butcher said that they have done intact boars that stunk the whole facility up. I'm so happy that yours is good!
Dear Meg and Ben. I’m so excited y’all are coming to Greer in March. I use to leave comments on your videos all the time. I’ve watched you since you lived in Calif.
I live in Greer and the place you are going to do your class is just down the road from us. We have 19 acres here. We are in our 70’s so we don’t homestead. Our health isn’t that great. If I was younger I sure would. I love your family. Good people. I watch Justin Rhodes and Art and Bro too. I love learning from you. If we were younger I would love to come to your class. Just to met you. Just wanted to tell you I love y’all
I love the fact it’s a family day! How rewarding! Congratulations!
When I was a boy, our extended family in Kansas gathered on New Years Day to butcher hogs. We always did 3 big hogs. My parents, my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins all participated. It was a social occasion as well as a lot of work. It’s a pleasure to watch your family butcher and do it so efficiently!
Job well done and so glad the pig is ok and not ruined
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It looks great Ben & Meg !!
God.Bless you all !❤
We also butchered females, so I learned about the intact boars which I had no idea & about the smell. Congrats to both of you on teaching classes. Can't wait for the processing. Have a great weekend. Blessings to all of you. 😊🇺🇲
Yes, this 65-year-old man shed some tears for Bubbles as I have watched him grow up, and as an animal lover, this is hard. But as a spiritualist, I know he continues on and his flesh is just that, flesh.
Love the channel
Been watching since 2018. Thanks for sharing your lives. Great job, keep it up.
Every time my grandson sees your program he says that's a Dream Team cuz team work gets everything done faster.
Thank God your hard work and investment didn't go to waste!
Now you'll enjoy nicest meat and lard(not less important) there is!
Jason is a great neighbor, you two complement each other so well!
Since you said there is a chance you wont be able to eat him I was just holding my beath, hands to my mouth, tears in my eyes. I was genuinly terrified. I process my own ducks and chickens and I can only immagine what a loss that would be. I am so joyouse that you can feed your family with him. Genuinly had a tiny happy cry. Love you guys :)
You did good, Bubbles
We raise pigs but have never processed our own. I learned a lot watching this video. Glad to hear you are both teaching classes in March. God bless you for being willing to share your knowledge, we all should do what we can to bring others along our journey of self-reliance. Hard work can be very satisfying! Keep up the good work!
This is so neat. We are planning on get pigs this year. Can't wait to raise and butcher our own meat. We definitely will need some schooling before we attempt to do this on our own but we really want to learn.
Jason is a great friend. He seems like he is always willing to stop to help out a friend.
Whoohoo, Good job guys and what a relief to have all that meat to store.
I am so happy for you guys. Thanks watching you , I couldn't bare disappointment. You treat your animals above and beyond. The bounty of your labor is well worth it. And we will be happy happy to see you in SC in March. Have a great weekend ❤️🙏👍🌟
Great job. Congratulations!
You both will be excellent teachers. You actually are right now on your channel. It is awesome to see community support. We need each other. Glad everything turned out so well with the pig.
Was so nice Jason of Sow the Land help. Love the homestead community.
Loved watching the process. Congrats you all!
Don't know if you are familiar with SSL family dad. He was attacked by a boar him and his wife raised. The boar slit a good size gash on his leg. He was bleeding pretty bad to the point he was passing out, but managed to get away and he put a tourniquet on his leg. It was pretty touch and go at the hospital. The neighbor went to his place and dispatched the boar. So yes those boar can kill and eat you. Never turn your back on them.
Its a shame Pete from Just a Few Acres Farm had not see this before he "retired" his old boar and buried him as he was a beast of a size and I bet given this knowledge could have made some great old pork. Thanks for posting
I learned something about intact male animals. So often I witnessed our goat buck going in and out of rut, go from smelly and gross to little or no smell. It was not my imagination. Timing a harvest of deer is the same. We once harvested a buck that I could hardly stand to cook for the dogs! Most of the time, however, if earlier in the rut, or young, the meat was fine. Looking forward to your next video.
Thanks for keeping it rated pg, I actually watched the whole video lol. We had to throw out a freezer full of uncut beef one time because it tasted like testosterone. Yep, so many wild pigs around here, and one guy got bit pretty bad, they actually called for hunters to hunt them. One guy I know traps them using mayonnaise as bait, then he fattens them up for harvesting.
So glad you explained and tried that. I always wondered.
It's always good to see you and fellow homesteader Jason working together. You're building a wonderful community! :-) Love it.
My husband used to work in a pig factory so he has killed and processed many pigs and now he’s a butcher of all animals, very handy to have a husband who can do all of that and he’s super fast at it.
See one, teach one!!! Love how far y’all come! I had thought to teach pressure cooking class here in Abilene, TX area but haven’t stepped up yet.
I smiled and cheered when Jason showed up with his camera in hand. Hope to see his perspective soon!
Hi Ben and Meg
If you want to avoid the stress of not knowing if you can eat the meat of a Boar, you can also castrate him some weaks bevor the sloughtering date. In this weaks the Androstenon and Skotal (which are responsible for the bad smell) are deconstructed and you are left with perfectly fine meat.
I have learned that about 10% of intact boars (in Europe) have to be thrown away (or made into salami diluted with other meat) independent of females in heat beeing nearby. So there must be some other factors.
Greetings Nicki
I absolutely love your honesty. The truth is....on a farm or homestead you are faced with unconventional decisions. Love how you handled this one. 💕