How Much Meat Comes From 300 lb Meat Hog/Pig? & What Meat Cuts Can I Get?

Here at Showalter's Country Meats we provide & process 300lb hogs.
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I often get asked about how much meat a hog that size produces. Eventually I decided to do a video demonstration from and actual 300 lb. hog that we process for someone so you could get a visual answer to the question of how much meat it produces.
Usually a 300 lb. hog produces between 150-180 lbs. of take home meat. It varies a lot depending how many "bone in" cuts you get. In the video I walk you thru how much bacon, jowl bacon, pork chops, tenderloin, sliced shoulder (pork steak), sliced & cured ham, hocks and sausage you get from a 300 lb. hog. Keep in mind that you could get your hog done totally different -- it all depends on how you want us to process your hog. This is meant to give an idea of what one guy's hog produced - so that you get an idea of the potential this great hog deal has.
We do sell hogs this size and process them for you for a total of $400. Price can vary depending upon the exact weight of the hog.

[GEAE_Denny_L]

If you get negative comments, that’s because of a bunch of whiny vegan trolls.
Your presentation and explanation is very good.

[Fldavestone]

Raised on a pig farm.The butcher used to take half the meat as opposed to paying for the butchering and curing. We always thought they shorted us, but we could not season and cure it as well as they did. It was extra to have cracklings, you also had lard. My old man worked at Armor star packing house.They had a saying, we use everything from the pig including the squeal and we put that in our brakes.

[billhawkesworth]

Live with 300lbs, carcass hanging 225lbs, cut and wrapped approximately 175lbs give or take 5% .

[countalucard]

My mom made Roast Pork in a pot with Sauerkraut and potatoes. It all came out brown looking. It was so delicious.

[LOLONO]

i worked in the pork industry and used to cook all the heads, so nostalgic about that

[faithvelasquez]

Thank you for the visual of how much meat there is. we are getting 2 hogs done for the first time and wanted to see about how much we are getting back! 😀

[stevebono]

Those packs of 4 "pork tenderloin" are actually pork loin, not tenderloin.

[Mzlady]

Wow I’m extremely impressed! They really used every bit of one hog! So fresh! I didn’t realize there were so many parts one could eat.

[rossjulian]

if you measure the girth of a pig, just behind the front legs all the way around it's body with a cloth measuring tape we found 36" would be 100lbs. every inch over another ten pounds. that's a rough weight, but not too far off.

[wallyodom]

People thinking they are getting tenderloin if they don't want chops....only the small loin is the tenderloin just like in beef....the larger one is strip loin as in like NY strip with beef....people need to be informed of that because a lot of them don't know

[trucksforlife]

Our hog weighed in at 348 pounds and we just took him to the butcher today.

[roughcountry]

In general you get 40% of the live weight in boneless meat so 300lbs = 120lbs boneless meat

[chrisunderwood]

The consensus is about half around 150 lbs..same as with beef cattle..total weight comes from all intestinal and bone...weight .

[bodidll]

Theres really only 2 tenderloins in any animal, and the only other loins are if there boneless loins which are a pork chop without a bone.

[billwessels]

I enjoyed the video. Very informative inspite of the snide spiteful comments.. Thank you, Sir!

[permaculturehealingph]

Seen other butchers including a friend, put up 50+ish lbs of sausage on top of everything else on the table. Best to harvest your own hog vs paying for it to be done. Will be planning on two this coming Fall.

[daveblevins]

Showalters is the best 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸 Everyone, and I mean everyone, that's had any cuts of our hog sharing dinner with us has said wow! Where did you get this pork, because it's excellent 👍!!

[darkquaesar]

i love jowel bacon, though it's a little more chewy than strip

[lostmoose]

I like pork a lot better than beef,
it also makes a huge difference to my budget vers beef.

[jas]

Outdoor have been nice of him to say 300 pound hog equals X Pound of Eatable meat