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I saved it and created specific titled hog's daddy's butcher/ recipe, brought me back as a boy, hearing cracklen's, hog brain we called it head cheese, my grandma always made it R.I.P. LOVED IT with mustard, tasted like scrambled eggs, I miss her and Lord blessed her cooking. I like to get your daddy's recipe, bacon especially sausage old recipe I remember. Very little I found taste homemade sausage and liked spicy 🔥 seeing chilli peppers 😋 mmmmm. Blessed you guys 😇 keep it up. Amen?
I grew up on a Farm in georgia and l remember hog killing time was the coldest day of the year so the meat wouldnt spoil. I was the youngest of 12 so my job was cutting up fat to render the lard and make the cracklins. Remember mama always took the tenderloin in the house to fry and she made buttermilk biscuits to serve it to us for a s n ack while we worked. Everyone had a job and nothing was ever wasted. We did not make bacon putting more meat into sausage. Mama took muslin and sewed sacks to stuff our sausage in. It was hung in the smokehouse😮. The hams were always salted down to preserve them. Each morning for breakfast we had sausage or salt cured ham and biscuits scrambled eggs. Mama was a mighty fine cook and a very strong woman to have and raise 12 healthy children. My daddy was an excellent provider so we never did without. Didnt have money but he kept his family fed. God really blessed our family. Dad spent 6 yrs in Navy and his earnings was how he bought the farm before he met and married mama❤met her @camp meeting church.❤
I just happened upon this and I'm so pleased to see the old ways still being done . Growing up in the seventies Stratford/Milverton area in Ontario Canada one of my favorite meals was using the meat from the pig feet . Grandma called it jellied hawk (hock) . Ate it with vinegar and onions . I guess having a German background helped , many wouldn't eat it lol . Great video people !
There's a class right there. People would pay to be a part of that process. Priceless information straight from your Dad. Love the whole family. The men are real and the women are just lovely. Hope to get down there to meet you one day.
I never did a hog but butcher my own deer for 25 years . I'm glad to have seen you doing rather than a school. Memories of my Grandfather come back everytime I pick up his old meat saw. Your father's smiling knowing you're teaching his ways. Thanks
Man, that's a great video! It brings back a lot of fond memories from childhood. I like the fact that everyone participated in the job at hand, and they are such great people. John, many thanks go out to you and your wife for the great TH-cam channel the two of you have created.
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As a former meat cutter from many years ago, we never broke down the whole animal. It was already broken down before we cut it into whatever it needed to be. Very informative and interesting video! It’s great to see how it was done! My brother-in-law still does this once a year. Thank you for sharing!
I'm late watching this, but man oh man, was this so excellent to watch! Love the passed down family methods and traditions! This is soooo rich and encouraging! Let's me know that the salt of the earth people still hold tight to old ways in many parts of this country. Thank you so very much for your precious videos!
Loved the video John. I grew up in the 60's and we always butchered two hogs every year on a Friday after Thanksgiving. We did the scauld method too. Just like the Guenther family. Nothing went to waste. Good memories, thanks for sharing.
It is great to see that you carry on the traditions of the ancestors way of preparing food. It brings back memories of when we lived in the Mennonite Colony in northern Mexico. My fathers family also came from Saskatchewan. My favorite part of the Pig was the ears and feet. It is so good to see you teaching the young people. Looking forward to the next video.
I grew up our family did the same thing us kids would take the liver an out a stick through it an put over the fire an cook it up an eat the heck out of it 😂. The whole community would bring their hogs help each other it was all day event. Great Times. Thank y’all for sharing another awesome video.
This was very interesting to watch. It's important for modern generations to know how to survive like our ancestors did. From Texas, thanks so much, God Bless! 👍
Wow I was privileged to be there when my Grandpa Burley Lainhart butchered hogs. I was young but watched the whole process.several times. This video explained in detail what I saw and made the memory much clearer. Awesome video John as usual. Thank you.
Great content great to see a family working together and not letting go of the Mennonite traditional ways . I am related to these Guenthers on my dads side of the family. Cheers from northern BC Canada
That was a process that used to be as common here where I live as the sun coming up in the morning. Thank you for posting this and I hope we will be able to see the rest of the process.
This video made me go back in time, when I was a child at my mother's house. I was doing the same thing. How beautiful it was. I miss those times! Thank you.
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Home raised with love ❤️ that's happy and tasty pork !!! One of my friend Gregs chore was to slop the hogs. I liked helping. I remember how good the sausage was from those pigs !
This is Jodi, I love the fresh sausage from the hog! I grew up in Mississippi and my daddy hunted with his family in Alabama, so I watched some of this growing up!
Thanks for sharing this. By the time I was born my grandparents were taking their live animals to the butcher for processing. However, my grandmother would explain to me many times about “hog killings”. Back in those days they would let the hogs run wild in the mountains. Then they had bull dogs to catch the hogs and tie them up and bring them back to the farm for butchering. So, the only butchering I’ve ever experienced was deer and chickens! Thanks again!
I remember hog killings. That’s what we done when I was growing up. We raised almost everything we ate. My daddy would swell the feed too. We smoked bacon, and hams in the smokehouse. This brought back lots of memories. Thanks.
Thank you for this great tutorial. So nice to hear the family's tradition and honoring their parents/grandparents memory. My maternal grandmother raised and butchered hogs. She was tidy and orderly as are the Geunthers.
Can’t wait to see the rest of the process. Definitely an art to butchering meat. I was fortunate to grow up raising our own animals. We had a neighbor butcher. Fine Job All 👍
I really enjoyed this family video. The live in-process narration was outstanding. Vids like these should be preserved by the Smithsonian as an educational series. Woodworking, butchering, masonry, fencing, lumberjack, etc.
I grew up just outside a City. My Parents were immigrants from Ireland. They had 9 children. My Dad was a steel worker and made a fairly good paycheck and Mom was a nurse's aid. They had to save money anyway they could. We cut and split firewood all Summer long to burn in a wood burning stove during the cold Northeast winter. ( He never purchased heating oil). We had large gardens and canned everything we didn't use right away. A few towns over You could buy whole pigs at a fraction of the price per pound from a farm. We used to buy 2 150 pound pigs every winter and they would be slaughtered, cleaned out and cut in half there at the farm. We put them in the back of the old pickup truck and brought them to our basement. Butchered them up much like your family does. Salted everything. Hams and bacon, miles of sausage. Black pudding and much more. Your videos take me back to the wonderful memories I had as a young boy. You have a beautiful family. Thank You for sharing your stories!
I'm 67 now but can remember back waiting for a good cold snap here in NW Florida and it'd be hog killing day. All of the family, aunts and uncles and all the cousins would gather up and butcher hogs a lot like y'all were doing. Didn't ad ash to the scalding water, but did add some pine tops so the hair would pull easier. Would clear the intestines like you but also make chitterlings also. While we were working on finishing up the butchering my aunts would take the heart, liver, and lungs and boil them up making what they called liver and lights with a big pot of rice to be had after we were done. The head was split, brains taken out for scrabble eggs and brains....head then boiled down, stripped down seasoned, stuffed in a cotton bag and hung to make hoghead cheese. It was a chore and did save everything but the squeal , but it was enjoyable....kind of like a family get together. Remember those days fondly.
Thank you, I’m a life long meat cutter,and this was an awesome experience to see I’m grateful for the lesson and I will definitely put too use what I’ve learned thank you,
Terrific save on the knowledge of how to do this. My kin hale from Tennessee, but I have been in Wyoming all my life. My dad grew up in Missouri as a farm boy, and he taught me to butcher and it was always a time for being grateful for the blessings and reverent for the critter we harvested. I really appreciate this. God bless 🙌.
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This brought back a lot of memories of childhood . We would go out to my grandpa's place and butcher a hog in the winter. He used to make blood sausage, head cheese and scrapple. I loved the fresh cracklins that he would fry and put in homemade cornbread. I miss having that fresh pork. This video is so informative and helpful to anyone wanting to butcher their own meat. Good job Guenther family.
I just love your videos, it brings back great memories of my childhood growing up on our farm. We butchered a lot. Hogs, beef, chickens and rabbits. A way to many deer. I always loved doing Hogs. You Sir. Have a wonderful family.
Thanks for sharing 👍. That's how it's done for sure. Not much on a pig goes to waste. Wounderfull family tradition, right down to the lil ones. Like they say... Give a man a fish, he eats a meal. Teach a man to fish, he eats a lifetime.
My grandparents had four kids who all got married and had two to five kids per family. At hog killing time we all showed up at the farm. Say 25 altogether. Each family had a freezer and also canned some. Each year we killed three to five pigs depending on the size. Grandpa had a big watering trough and he put a fire under it and about 15 inches of water for hair removal. The kids all put our gum boots on and waded in with each new pig to scrape the hair off with our feet. We all held hands or held on to the side of the trough as we tromped on the pigs. You learn to slide along the body and the hair came off easy. Us kids had a great time and the hollering and laughing seemed like a party for us. The whole day was filled with one new experience after another. Thanks so much for sharing your experience with all of us. I'm watching with a tear in my eye and a heart full of wonderful memories.
Excellent. That brought back memories from my childhood on the farm. Can't wait to see the next video on the meat processing. Mom would make pickled pigs feet. Delicious. We ate it because we didn't know any better. But,I never could eat fried brains.
Thanks for the memories!! Growing up in the farmland of WI we processed 2 home raised steer and 4 home raised pigs every fall. Your processing room reminded of me of the grandparent’s processing room (their basement). The best part of butchering weekend - grandma taking fresh cuts and serving it up all day. The grandparents are gone and mom & dad are retired, but we’ve continued the tradition up here in AK with butchering a moose (almost the equivalent of 2 steer) and a locally raised pig.
Thanks for this video, brought back a lot of memories. I grew up in the 50's and 60's, this is very close to how we processed our hogs. We killed 5 or 6 hogs each year. Neighbors all helped each other. It was normally a 2 day affair for each. A day to get everything ready and a day killing. We salted down the hams, shoulders and sides until the salt had penetrated to the bone then taken up and rubbed down with black and red pepper and smoked for about week.
Just to add, its a pleasure to see you involving your family & teaching them. Its a skill they will remember and be thankful they learned it. They will need it some future time. Thankyou for the well done video, and the education as well.
Awesome video n beautiful ppl , I’ve done lots of pigs in my days for our family n friends , love my bacon n sausage n ham the most but it’s all good, great seeing a wonderful Family sharing their time together, I’ll be looking forward to seeing you all again soon !!👏👏
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I love hog head Souse! I recently acquired a Head from a friend and they threw the feet away but I bought feet from our local Butcher shop and cooked them down to used them mainly for the Gel to hold the meat together and I simply cut a piece and pour vinegar over it!!
Helped my Pap do this many times in South Pennsylvania. My fave job was,usuallyon a sat morning,was building the fire for the big kettle to make "puddin" meat. Loved the vid!
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Great video I enjoyed it love seeing how they do old time traditions I was born into Appalachian mts. My grandparents used to do their hogs my grandma canned her garden every year kids today don't understand that back in the day you couldn't just run out to the grocery store whenever you needed something nearest grocery store to us was 40 miles away and when it snowed my grandparents were house bound until the snow thawed or spring came along so thanks for sharing this video lots of memories
Great video!! I rememember raising hogs with my grandaddy and my dad. we would take em to the butcher shop to cut up for us and divide the meat between 3 families probably twice a year. It was so much better than store bought for some reason. Great memories! Thank you!!!!
You Get Back What You Put In to The Animal. That's My Opinion Anyways We Raised Hogs And Beef And Did Chickens a Few times Also but it's Alot Of Work and To Learn how to Break the whole Animal Down Awesome and Each Man or Woman Helps some people Get Good At certain Parts Of The Process. Glad to See Them Passing On The Tradition To The Younger Generation Thank You For The Video Brought Back Many Memories Thankful For You And Your Videos Many Blessings To Y'all ✌️
Some great memories watching this from when I was a kid. It was colder here in east TN when I was young and we always killed hogs around Thanksgiving. I remember we'd have a big hay wagon covered with paper and my uncles would cut the meat up on the wagon. My grandma and aunts would be in the house cooking a big breakfast while all the men and boys were butchering the hogs. My uncle would cut the tenderloin out of one and give it to my aunt and for breakfast we'd have fresh fried tenderloin and the best biscuits you could get. Grandma has been gone many years and only one aunt left now, I sure do miss the old ways. Now we all live in subdivisions and get our groceries at the store, not everything gets better with time. Sad also that my boys never got to experience the life on a farm and the great memories that go along with it. I sure appreciate your videos.
Hey Holly my grandparents loved to make scrapel and our favorite cut of pork was side pork we call it. It's uncured bacon cut thick and fried crisp with alot of s&p....... Note the last name similar huh...... We are from Minnesota
This was so interesting I've always wanted to see how they cut a pig up to makeham,porkchops,bacon& an sausage! My mom grew up on a farm an she experience all of this cutting ap pig up also!Thank you so much for doing it so people like I wanted the experience seeing this done!.
Enjoyed watching some good old boys butchering a hog.Your Dad must have been a heck of a guy.Thanks for sharing your family tradition. My best to you and your beautiful family.We raised a few hogs,but have not yet butchered them,but we may try it this year.Your tips will be helpful.God bless you all,from Jersey Nick
I remember hog killin's well. We killed three a year. We had the scalding pot outside. Several neighboring men would come to help, and would go home with some of the meat. Mom, my grandmother, and one aunt would cook for the crowd, grind and make sausage. We would can some of the tenderloin that same day. My grandmother would also make lye soap. Busy, busy, busy day; but worth it. Meat for the year, except for fish and chicken.
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I saved it and created specific titled hog's daddy's butcher/ recipe, brought me back as a boy, hearing cracklen's, hog brain we called it head cheese, my grandma always made it R.I.P. LOVED IT with mustard, tasted like scrambled eggs, I miss her and Lord blessed her cooking.
I like to get your daddy's recipe, bacon especially sausage old recipe I remember.
Very little I found taste homemade sausage and liked spicy 🔥 seeing chilli peppers 😋 mmmmm.
Blessed you guys 😇 keep it up.
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I grew up on a Farm in georgia and l remember hog killing time was the coldest day of the year so the meat wouldnt spoil. I was the youngest of 12 so my job was cutting up fat to render the lard and make the cracklins. Remember mama always took the tenderloin in the house to fry and she made buttermilk biscuits to serve it to us for a s n ack while we worked. Everyone had a job and nothing was ever wasted. We did not make bacon putting more meat into sausage. Mama took muslin and sewed sacks to stuff our sausage in. It was hung in the smokehouse😮. The hams were always salted down to preserve them. Each morning for breakfast we had sausage or salt cured ham and biscuits scrambled eggs. Mama was a mighty fine cook and a very strong woman to have and raise 12 healthy children. My daddy was an excellent provider so we never did without. Didnt have money but he kept his family fed. God really blessed our family. Dad spent 6 yrs in Navy and his earnings was how he bought the farm before he met and married mama❤met her @camp meeting church.❤
Professional , friendly family, God bless you for keeping your dad’s memory and your traditions alive.
I appreciate that
In a world where most are trying to erase the past it is awesome to see others keeping these traditions alive.
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I just happened upon this and I'm so pleased to see the old ways still being done . Growing up in the seventies Stratford/Milverton area in Ontario Canada one of my favorite meals was using the meat from the pig feet . Grandma called it jellied hawk (hock) . Ate it with vinegar and onions . I guess having a German background helped , many wouldn't eat it lol .
Great video people !
Great video. It's so nice to see the Guenther family working together and keeping the traditions alive. Blessings!
Thank you! Blessings to you too Fernando!
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Almost a lost art I'm sure, so good to see this family keeping a tradition alive, as well as providing for their families, thanks for the video
You’re welcome! Stay tuned I have more footage to edit on the hog butchering process. Thanks for watching
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There's a class right there. People would pay to be a part of that process. Priceless information straight from your Dad. Love the whole family. The men are real and the women are just lovely. Hope to get down there to meet you one day.
I never did a hog but butcher my own deer for 25 years . I'm glad to have seen you doing rather than a school. Memories of my Grandfather come back everytime I pick up his old meat saw. Your father's smiling knowing you're teaching his ways. Thanks
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One of thee best videos , your family members will cherish this forever ,…… priceless!!!
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Man, that's a great video! It brings back a lot of fond memories from childhood. I like the fact that everyone participated in the job at hand, and they are such great people. John, many thanks go out to you and your wife for the great TH-cam channel the two of you have created.
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I remember butcher day myself.... always was a big meal after too
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That's a beautiful thing to pass down the generations. Great jobs folks.
Thanks it was an experience
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As a former meat cutter from many years ago, we never broke down the whole animal. It was already broken down before we cut it into whatever it needed to be. Very informative and interesting video! It’s great to see how it was done! My brother-in-law still does this once a year. Thank you for sharing!
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I'm late watching this, but man oh man, was this so excellent to watch! Love the passed down family methods and traditions! This is soooo rich and encouraging! Let's me know that the salt of the earth people still hold tight to old ways in many parts of this country. Thank you so very much for your precious videos!
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Loved the video John. I grew up in the 60's and we always butchered two hogs every year on a Friday after Thanksgiving. We did the scauld method too. Just like the Guenther family. Nothing went to waste. Good memories, thanks for sharing.
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Your dad would be proud. I truly enjoyed watching a family tradition. Thank you everyone for sharing. Thank you
One of the best butchering video I've seen,thanks
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It is great to see that you carry on the traditions of the ancestors way of preparing food. It brings back memories of when we lived in the Mennonite Colony in northern Mexico. My fathers family also came from Saskatchewan. My favorite part of the Pig was the ears and feet. It is so good to see you teaching the young people. Looking forward to the next video.
Hawg maws and paws… yum yum!
Thank you stay tuned for part 2
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Same here! My family came from Ontario/Manitoba though
Wow….watching this sure brought back memories of younger days, Thanks for sharing …….
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This video takes me back to a better time and warms my heart thank you so much
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Thank you for sharing ✝️🙏🙏🙏✝️
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I grew up our family did the same thing us kids would take the liver an out a stick through it an put over the fire an cook it up an eat the heck out of it 😂. The whole community would bring their hogs help each other it was all day event. Great Times. Thank y’all for sharing another awesome video.
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Best video on utube. Thanks for sharing, I can't wait to see part 2. You're Dad would have a ear to ear smile & be very very proud of you guys.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks so much. Stay tuned for part 2
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This was very interesting to watch. It's important for modern generations to know how to survive like our ancestors did. From Texas, thanks so much, God Bless! 👍
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Wow I was privileged to be there when my Grandpa Burley Lainhart butchered hogs. I was young but watched the whole process.several times. This video explained in detail what I saw and made the memory much clearer. Awesome video John as usual. Thank you.
Thank you very much
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Thank you for sharing this! I hope the curing, butchering, and sausage making end up in a video at some point as well.
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This video of very interesting. I’ve work at a place where we cut my. It always come in already cut up. Very educational.. Thanks for sharing.
Good job Keep the old clean ways alive , Always support the Farmers, Family good food and old ways Love it
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Great content great to see a family working together and not letting go of the Mennonite traditional ways . I am related to these Guenthers on my dads side of the family. Cheers from northern BC Canada
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Every bit of practical knowledge like this makes you more free and independent.
That was a process that used to be as common here where I live as the sun coming up in the morning. Thank you for posting this and I hope we will be able to see the rest of the process.
Stay tuned! We have more coming, I just have to edit them
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I was lucky enough to be a part of this process with my grandfather and my dad growing up. It was a great experience to be part of
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This video made me go back in time, when I was a child at my mother's house. I was doing the same thing. How beautiful it was. I miss those times! Thank you.
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Home raised with love ❤️ that's happy and tasty pork !!!
One of my friend Gregs chore was to slop the hogs. I liked helping.
I remember how good the sausage was from those pigs !
This is Jodi, I love the fresh sausage from the hog! I grew up in Mississippi and my daddy hunted with his family in Alabama, so I watched some of this growing up!
Interesting job. A lot of work going into getting fresh meat but so worth it . Thank you for the wonderful videos
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Takes me back to when my grandpa butchered hogs. Never had the stomach for it.
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Heck ya!!! My kind of folks and day. Blessing to you all! Stay well.
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Thanks for sharing this. By the time I was born my grandparents were taking their live animals to the butcher for processing. However, my grandmother would explain to me many times about “hog killings”. Back in those days they would let the hogs run wild in the mountains. Then they had bull dogs to catch the hogs and tie them up and bring them back to the farm for butchering. So, the only butchering I’ve ever experienced was deer and chickens! Thanks again!
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Taking me back to my early childhood. What we didn't eat the dog would. Great videos and content John.
Or the chickens would pick it all clean and the eggs were better for it.
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Great to see family working together passing on those traditions.. Thanks for all your videos. amazing
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Great video. Brings back a lot of memories. I haven't done it in years. Job well done. Thanks
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I remember hog killings. That’s what we done when I was growing up. We raised almost everything we ate. My daddy would swell the feed too. We smoked bacon, and hams in the smokehouse. This brought back lots of memories. Thanks.
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The Gunther Family is the real deal I'm thankful to see this.
Brought back a lot of memories! Thanks for posting! I really enjoy your channel.
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Thank you for this great tutorial. So nice to hear the family's tradition and honoring their parents/grandparents memory. My maternal grandmother raised and butchered hogs. She was tidy and orderly as are the Geunthers.
Sorry, excuse me; Guenthers.
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This was awesome thanks for sharing an awesome family tradition. All i can say is keep them coming and cant wait for the next video.
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Scrapple was one thing, that was new to me...John & Emma showed me through the process. ❤
Awesome! Who are you and where are you from?
@@theappalachianchannel My name is above. Lived in M.P. from 1994- 2004 with my seven children and the now, Ex.
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Can’t wait to see the rest of the process. Definitely an art to butchering meat. I was fortunate to grow up raising our own animals. We had a neighbor butcher. Fine Job All 👍
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I really enjoyed this family video. The live in-process narration was outstanding. Vids like these should be preserved by the Smithsonian as an educational series. Woodworking, butchering, masonry, fencing, lumberjack, etc.
My husband and I watch your channel religiously… thank u for sharing so many interesting places …
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I grew up just outside a City. My Parents were immigrants from Ireland. They had 9 children. My Dad was a steel worker and made a fairly good paycheck and Mom was a nurse's aid. They had to save money anyway they could. We cut and split firewood all Summer long to burn in a wood burning stove during the cold Northeast winter. ( He never purchased heating oil). We had large gardens and canned everything we didn't use right away. A few towns over You could buy whole pigs at a fraction of the price per pound from a farm. We used to buy 2 150 pound pigs every winter and they would be slaughtered, cleaned out and cut in half there at the farm. We put them in the back of the old pickup truck and brought them to our basement. Butchered them up much like your family does. Salted everything. Hams and bacon, miles of sausage. Black pudding and much more. Your videos take me back to the wonderful memories I had as a young boy. You have a beautiful family. Thank You for sharing your stories!
You got some mighty stout grandsons there my man. They look like strong young men. Y’all have taught the kids to work. WELL DONE!
Great video....i`ve cut up many deer, a few beef and birds but Never a hog......TY for showing how our farming family lived
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Thanks for taking time to document this. My daughter and I watched it this morning.
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Awesome family, thank you for sharing your story with us. God Bless each and every one of you.
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I absolutely love this Muddy pond series it's my favorite, hopefully you do more videos on them ❤
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I'm 67 now but can remember back waiting for a good cold snap here in NW Florida and it'd be hog killing day. All of the family, aunts and uncles and all the cousins would gather up and butcher hogs a lot like y'all were doing. Didn't ad ash to the scalding water, but did add some pine tops so the hair would pull easier. Would clear the intestines like you but also make chitterlings also. While we were working on finishing up the butchering my aunts would take the heart, liver, and lungs and boil them up making what they called liver and lights with a big pot of rice to be had after we were done.
The head was split, brains taken out for scrabble eggs and brains....head then boiled down, stripped down seasoned, stuffed in a cotton bag and hung to make hoghead cheese.
It was a chore and did save everything but the squeal , but it was enjoyable....kind of like a family get together. Remember those days fondly.
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Thank you, I’m a life long meat cutter,and this was an awesome experience to see I’m grateful for the lesson and I will definitely put too use what I’ve learned thank you,
I think this is just the best thing ever. I wish I was your kin because I’d be right in there with you. God Bless you and yours.
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Terrific save on the knowledge of how to do this. My kin hale from Tennessee, but I have been in Wyoming all my life. My dad grew up in Missouri as a farm boy, and he taught me to butcher and it was always a time for being grateful for the blessings and reverent for the critter we harvested. I really appreciate this. God bless 🙌.
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This brought back a lot of memories of childhood . We would go out to my grandpa's place and butcher a hog in the winter. He used to make blood sausage, head cheese and scrapple. I loved the fresh cracklins that he would fry and put in homemade cornbread. I miss having that fresh pork. This video is so informative and helpful to anyone wanting to butcher their own meat. Good job Guenther family.
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Very interesting. Thank you
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Wonderful demonstration and explanation of the hog butchering process, mixed with those endearing family stories.
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I just love your videos, it brings back great memories of my childhood growing up on our farm. We butchered a lot. Hogs, beef, chickens and rabbits. A way to many deer. I always loved doing Hogs. You Sir. Have a wonderful family.
Thank you and family for sharing your heritage with us all. The video was done very well and is very informative.
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What great video to watch,brings back memories when my brother and I helped my dad butcher hogs. Thank you.
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Thanks for sharing 👍. That's how it's done for sure. Not much on a pig goes to waste.
Wounderfull family tradition, right down to the lil ones. Like they say...
Give a man a fish, he eats a meal.
Teach a man to fish, he eats a lifetime.
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Great video. Looking forward to day two.
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WOW, Great lesson.
It was a good one!
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My grandparents had four kids who all got married and had two to five kids per family. At hog killing time we all showed up at the farm. Say 25 altogether. Each family had a freezer and also canned some. Each year we killed three to five pigs depending on the size. Grandpa had a big watering trough and he put a fire under it and about 15 inches of water for hair removal. The kids all put our gum boots on and waded in with each new pig to scrape the hair off with our feet. We all held hands or held on to the side of the trough as we tromped on the pigs. You learn to slide along the body and the hair came off easy. Us kids had a great time and the hollering and laughing seemed like a party for us. The whole day was filled with one new experience after another. Thanks so much for sharing your experience with all of us. I'm watching with a tear in my eye and a heart full of wonderful memories.
Great video. Thank you ❤❤❤
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This was a very interesting video. I enjoyed watching it. Thanks so much for sharing it.
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Thank you for this video so many children don't know ware there food comes from. Nice job carry on.
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I watched my Dad and neighbors do this ,way back in the 50’s in Jamestown, Tennessee. These guys are doing a fantastic job.
That is one beautiful family. Another excellent production John.
Yes they are and good people! Thank you for watching and your nice comment
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Thank you very much for sharing your family tradition. God fearing people will have to learn to do these things to live.
Families like y’all are a blessing
these videos are invaluable. love seeing the whole family take part in their food source. Mark is SO knowledgeable & what a great leader.
Excellent. That brought back memories from my childhood on the farm. Can't wait to see the next video on the meat processing. Mom would make pickled pigs feet. Delicious. We ate it because we didn't know any better. But,I never could eat fried brains.
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I live not far from you all. Really enjoyed watching the video.
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Great job by the family and great video. Always learn something.
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It's a family tradition.
Mr Guenther, your Dad would be proud ya, and I know your Mammy must be smiling ❤
Thanks for the memories!! Growing up in the farmland of WI we processed 2 home raised steer and 4 home raised pigs every fall. Your processing room reminded of me of the grandparent’s processing room (their basement). The best part of butchering weekend - grandma taking fresh cuts and serving it up all day. The grandparents are gone and mom & dad are retired, but we’ve continued the tradition up here in AK with butchering a moose (almost the equivalent of 2 steer) and a locally raised pig.
We’ve seen quite a number of videos and really enjoy watching such talents and family togetherness. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for this video, brought back a lot of memories.
I grew up in the 50's and 60's, this is very close to how we processed our hogs. We killed 5 or 6 hogs each year.
Neighbors all helped each other. It was normally a 2 day affair for each. A day to get everything ready and a day killing. We salted down the hams, shoulders and sides until the salt had penetrated to the bone then taken up and rubbed down with black and red pepper and smoked for about week.
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wow thats Amazing thanks for sharing Its beautiful how families still get together. I can see the love this family has for each other
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Just to add, its a pleasure to see you involving your family & teaching them. Its a skill they will remember and be thankful they learned it. They will need it some future time. Thankyou for the well done video, and the education as well.
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Awesome video n beautiful ppl , I’ve done lots of pigs in my days for our family n friends , love my bacon n sausage n ham the most but it’s all good, great seeing a wonderful Family sharing their time together, I’ll be looking forward to seeing you all again soon !!👏👏
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Very nice great video! Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you very much for sharing, this is an excellent tutorial and I am looking forward to viewing the rest of the processing.
I love hog head Souse! I recently acquired a Head from a friend and they threw the feet away but I bought feet from our local Butcher shop and cooked them down to used them mainly for the Gel to hold the meat together and I simply cut a piece and pour vinegar over it!!
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Helped my Pap do this many times in South Pennsylvania. My fave job was,usuallyon a sat morning,was building the fire for the big kettle to make "puddin" meat. Loved the vid!
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Great video I enjoyed it love seeing how they do old time traditions I was born into Appalachian mts. My grandparents used to do their hogs my grandma canned her garden every year kids today don't understand that back in the day you couldn't just run out to the grocery store whenever you needed something nearest grocery store to us was 40 miles away and when it snowed my grandparents were house bound until the snow thawed or spring came along so thanks for sharing this video lots of memories
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Will you be posting day 2 of them processing the hog? We really enjoyed watching the family. Thank you for posting this.
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@The Appalachian Channel Thank You!! We already watched it lol. We appreciate y'all taking the time to shoot this footage!
Great video!! Very informative and it brought back a lot of memories for and everyone else who has watched it. Thanks
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Great video!! I rememember raising hogs with my grandaddy and my dad. we would take em to the butcher shop to cut up for us and divide the meat between 3 families probably twice a year. It was so much better than store bought for some reason. Great memories! Thank you!!!!
You Get Back What You Put In to The Animal. That's My Opinion Anyways We Raised Hogs And Beef And Did Chickens a Few times Also but it's Alot Of Work and To Learn how to Break the whole Animal Down Awesome and Each Man or Woman Helps some people Get Good At certain Parts Of The Process. Glad to See Them Passing On The Tradition To The Younger Generation Thank You For The Video Brought Back Many Memories Thankful For You And Your Videos Many Blessings To Y'all ✌️
Yes, this is Jodi, and I remember that too. Good memories.
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Some great memories watching this from when I was a kid. It was colder here in east TN when I was young and we always killed hogs around Thanksgiving. I remember we'd have a big hay wagon covered with paper and my uncles would cut the meat up on the wagon. My grandma and aunts would be in the house cooking a big breakfast while all the men and boys were butchering the hogs. My uncle would cut the tenderloin out of one and give it to my aunt and for breakfast we'd have fresh fried tenderloin and the best biscuits you could get. Grandma has been gone many years and only one aunt left now, I sure do miss the old ways. Now we all live in subdivisions and get our groceries at the store, not everything gets better with time. Sad also that my boys never got to experience the life on a farm and the great memories that go along with it. I sure appreciate your videos.
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Hey Holly my grandparents loved to make scrapel and our favorite cut of pork was side pork we call it. It's uncured bacon cut thick and fried crisp with alot of s&p....... Note the last name similar huh...... We are from Minnesota
Sir I got to say the most professional honest explanation of how to process an animal I ever seen.
This was so interesting I've always wanted to see how they cut a pig up to makeham,porkchops,bacon& an sausage! My mom grew up on a farm an she experience all of this cutting ap pig up also!Thank you so much for doing it so people like I wanted the experience seeing this done!.
My pleasure, it was exciting to film in person as they did their thing with the hog
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Enjoyed watching some good old boys butchering a hog.Your Dad must have been a heck of a guy.Thanks for sharing your family tradition. My best to you and your beautiful family.We raised a few hogs,but have not yet butchered them,but we may try it this year.Your tips will be helpful.God bless you all,from Jersey Nick
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I remember hog killin's well. We killed three a year. We had the scalding pot outside. Several neighboring men would come to help, and would go home with some of the meat. Mom, my grandmother, and one aunt would cook for the crowd, grind and make sausage. We would can some of the tenderloin that same day. My grandmother would also make lye soap. Busy, busy, busy day; but worth it. Meat for the year, except for fish and chicken.
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