When you buy a pig for meat from Boulder Ridge Farm, the weight you buy is not the weight that will go into your freezer. This is because of the parts of the pig you cannot eat. This includes most of the internal organs, hair, and other inedible products. So if you buy a 180 pound hog, it will weigh about 130 pounds when it is hung up to cool. Then when the pig is cut into pork chops and bacon it will lose some more weight from deboning and fat trimming. So you will get approximately 105 pounds of meat to put into your freezer from a 180 pound pig. Below is a pork cut chart listing all of the different cuts of meat you can get from a pig. Please note you may not be able to get all of these cuts from the same pig. If you are interested in buying one of our pigs, please feel free to contact us using our contact form.
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