$2 to $4 per pound.
1 Typically, a piglet that is 8 to 10 weeks old can cost $80 to $200. 2  The costs for butchering will depend on the type of end products with which you want to end up. 3  Hence, if you want to make sausages, then most likely you will need to pay an additional amount to mince and crush the hog meat into tinier pieces. 1 Typically, a whole hog should cost anywhere from $2 to $4 per pound. 2  Again, this is not going to include the butchering costs. 3  A half of hog, which is usually purchased by families of four or more, will generally cost around $80 to $300, including processing fees. High hog prices and lower costs are the keys to current profitability. Estimated annual costs of production have dropped from a high of $67 per live hundredweight in the drought year of 2012 to $56.50 for this calendar year and to $52 anticipated for 2015. If you are purchasing hogs in order to raise them on a farm, the price and inclusions will be different than if you are simply purchasing a whole pig for its meat. 1  The website Accidentlasmallholder.net shows that the relative price of a hog or pig for slaughter would be around $365. 1 The website Accidentlasmallholder.net shows that the relative price of a hog or pig for slaughter would be around $365. 2  This is only for the animal itself and will not include the added butchery costs. 3  Typically, a whole hog should cost anywhere from $2 to $4 per pound. 1 Again, this is not going to include the butchering costs. 2  A half of hog, which is usually purchased by families of four or more, will generally cost around $80 to $300, including processing fees. A cost of $2.40 per feeder pig sold includes sow and pig health costs. Labor costs are based on pay rate of $22 per hour, benefits included. The labor cost per finished hog sold is $11.40, or if feeder pigs are sold, labor would cost $8.59 per pig sold. Administrative costs are estimated to be $3.50 per hog sold, or $2 per feeder pig sold. Some of the other production costs include manure handling, feed delivery, and utilities. Manure handling costs are based on a custom handling price of $0.01 per gallon. By late-March, live hog prices reached near their yearly highs of $98 per live hundredweight. The extraordinary fact is that this was nearly $40 higher than the same time a year earlier, or about 70 percent above year-ago prices.
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