EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Simply stated how much. i get like 20,30 dollars a piece and for trophys i get about a 100. im lookin for a bulk buyer, any suggestions.

Go to one of the many Buyin stations around the state, they pay by the pound not the trophy.

how much you reckon a pound?

It changes as much as every day. You have to call them but the price is what it is when you get the pigs there not when you call. Pork prices change a lot. That is why the McRib comes and goes. When prices drop McDonald's buys pork when it goes up they don't. They change enough to make pork a traded commodity. The price also changes by region so different places will pay more or less. If they have enough pork they will drop prices so they can ship it to an area that is low. It comes down to supply and demand. So you may want to find a few places and call them when you have some to sell for the prices that day. It may be porth driving a few extra miles.

Depending on where your at they all over. Kosse,groesbeck,elm mott, gatesville,malone, sulphur springs even check craigslist. I sell to my cousin he pays $70 for 130/175# anything above that I take else where for trophy bonus and 45. cents a pound

 


Dear freind, you are misinformed if you think the price of domestic hogs is tied to the price of wild hogs at a buying station.  There are no wild hogs being used for human use unless it is labeled wild boar.  There is only one processor in texas, Divine, there used to be another one in Ingram but i think it shut down, all of the buying stations are agents of Divine wild game processing or what ever its name is legally.  They buy wild hogs for shippping to overseas markets especially europe to be sold as wild boar, the swine flu outbreak crashed the wild hog meat market in europe even though hogs dont have anything to do with swine flu outbreak.  The hog buying stations are all the same buyer, some with no competion offer low prices, some with competition pay more, its a iffy type operation as they change up the prices they have listed and dont update them,  I have never heard of any buying station overpaying anybody but for sure you can get below the going rate if you dont know what they paid the last guy.  Its a shame all of the hog hunters dont get together and boycott them or start up a coop and sell hogs once a month and let them big for them instead of allways paying low prices no matter what they are getting for the hogs in the end, have you ever googled wild boar meat for sale on ebay or the web??  its usually about $15 a pound or somewhere close, so go figure that out, buy for 40 cents, pay 20 cents to cut and wrap a 200 pound hog $120 they got in the hog for cost, they sell 120 pounds of boned out meat from a 200 pound hog for $15 a pound times $120 equals $1800lol  Pretty good spread i would say, of course they have overhead, shrink wrapping and packaging and boxing up a container to France or some market of fancy restruants, its a shame somebody does not get a SBA loan to buy and process the hogs in there own custom exotic meat market and smokehouse, i think i saw wild boar on th emenu in france for like $40 a plate or so, its very high where it ends up.

I was using domestic pork as a comparison. The markets are separate but comparable. I figure wild boar is closer to pork than beef. But either way the price changes without warning and different places pay different prices. Sorry for not being clear.

Well i live in florida but i find it very interesting you guys have buying stations in texas but we havnt had one in over 10 years. And even then it was just one.

i never heard of divine . but i have heard of bell tex wich is a division of frontier meats in ft worth . they have control of most the buying stations in northeast texas and they are fair people to deal with . i have boaned out plenty and you might get 100lbs of good meat off a 200lb boar . you can contact danny starns at frontier meats in ft worth at 817-624-1136 and get a currant price it's based on the hogs weight differant sizes differant price per pound star at a minnimum of 80lbs now if i'm not mistaken . where you located sniper ?

never mind sniper you posted same time i did .

can just anyone go into these places or do you have to have a card or something? i may have to move to texas.

yeah any body . they are kinda fussy bout dog caught hogs . some dogs mess em up pretty good . i used to catch em and keep em till they healed up then sell em . i'll call my buyer later and post up current prices . after he gets off work tonight .

allright good deal half breed.

Have you tried asking Lee L. in Okeechobee?  He told my husband a few months back he would take many meat hogs as he could get and I think there is a guy in Palm Beach looking for a bunch of meat sized hogs as long as they aren't torn up.

 

Anybody can go in it but there are rules on moving texas hogs and what sex etc etc that were posted up the other day, they dont buy every hog that comes in last time i messed with them, so if you have underweight sows and haul them back to the ranch or somewhere else you are in violation of the hog law if you ever get stopped and asked for paperwork from somebody who actually knows the law and can write one up legally for violations??  That other post about belltex makes sense buying because i could never figure out where you guys up in north texas sold hogs and how they came out hauling down to san antonio the freight and stress would be a killer for sure, looks like there are 2 buyers in texas then, Divine and belltex??  Wonder if Belltex slaughters the hogs in fort worth and ships them or just kills them and sells to divne after they are boxed, usually a hog produces 50 per cent of its live weight or better as a rule.  Anybody have a website to see of Belltex sells wild processed boar meat online or does it all go out of state??  What about Florida, sounds like it is illegal to sell the meat or somebody would have know about selling them in Florida and what they pay for them?

Current price from my local hog buyer

Example. 99x.20cents per pound = $19.80

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Doesn't the meat have to be USDA inspected if it is sold for retail?  I do not know of anyone personally but someone I work with in Deerfield says there is a market in Miami that touts 'wild boar meat' from Florida but I do not know where they are getting it from.  That is why it was new to me that you could donate the meat to soup kitchens because if they were to get sick from improper 'cleaning' then the person that sold/donated it could be held responsible.

do you have lee's number? i will surely call him.

night bell tex procceces all their hogs at there plant [frontier meats ] and they package it for retail and over seas . they sell it here for resturants and sausage making joints when i went to work for texas best smokehouse we made sausage out of the hams . and it is fda inspected. i used to donate plenty to the food banks just like prossed deer no fda inspt. needed on most places . southern game is who used to be in san antonio but they went under when the overseas market crashed i guess divine took over there bizz, souther had a bunch of buy stations up here . and i would emagine divine has as well i think just up north of me is one . compatition keeps the prices up it's a good thing .

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From what I understand USDA inspects the processing facility. They don't inspect every animal the facility does the inspecting of animals. If something turns out bad the facility gets in trouble. That is why they don't buy all the pigs that show up.

The pig transportation only applies to live hogs. But all you would need is an aproaved holding facility near you. That way if you get stopped on the way to the processing facility you are legal and if you have to take some back you are on the way to a holding facility and legal. If you are not planning on keepping the pig just kill it and you are legal. There is no fee to have a holding facility you just have to have it inspected and meet the requirements. The laws are not designed to stop people from selling the pigs just those that want to take them somewhere and release them.

Southern wild  game was located in divine texas down from san antone, sorry about the confusion i posted, there have been 2 or 3 more places over the years in the hill country but they never got as big as they have been in the last 10 years.  I googled wild boar meat for sale in texas and its higher than a hippies kite for sure, I look all of the time or used and have never seen wild hog meat for sale from texas in a store, or a smokehouse, i have never figured it out to tell the truth, with all of these hog hunting shows u would think some wild hog processor would place a infocomerical or website to order florida or texas wild boar just like caught on this episode shipped to your door???  I have always thought they,  wild hog meat processors would find a way to buy the hogs in texas and have them usda inspected at an approved facility and have wholesale and retail outlet, definetly a niche market not being served, the problem with the wild hog meat is prob the tame hog and cattle meat processors, they dont want a wild hog being slaughtered in the same facility as a feedlot hog or feedlot steer to avoid some kind of outbreak fo diease, hogs one of these days are going to cause a huge outbreak of something horrible i predict, too dry and too many sick hogs will prob kill some soccer mom and her kids in Houston or Dal and they will shut down hog buying stations, so far nothing has happened but its out there for sure, crazy all of the hogs that just get shot and left to rot due to no market for them or a low price below break even, we used to sell a 20 foot trailer load of them a month at times when the money was enuff to feed them for a month and worm them and haul up to devine wild games location.  None of the local places down here in one of the most hog eatten up countys will process wild hogs right now even this early as they are full, and they close up at end of Dec usually, so many hogs get shot and rot big time or end up being dumped on the side of the road or in a creek....

See, that is how I have come to understand what they are trying to do down herewith the 'ferall swine dealers' but we do not have buying stations thta I know of.  I wouldn't think that they would look at every animal that came through but do they do brucellosis testing on them before slaughter?  I know that we have aUSDA rep at our local sale barn and they had actually stopped them from selling wild hogs for a while when they first started pushing these cards because there was no way of knowing whether the people buying them were actually slaughtering them or just turning them loose.

I know they had recently started selling them there again and the prices were crazy high (especially this time of the year) but the sales only happpen once or twice a month on a Friday and to keep them is more of a hassle than they are worth imo since the prices are so variable.

I live 40 min from devine and the buying station is picky on dog caught hogs,but not too bad. I also have a guy I've known for a while that has a buying station closer to jourdanton who will buy your caught hogs at the same price then he feeds them up. If you're interested shoot me a pm