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My Uncle's family has owned a huge cattle ranch since before I was born. As we grew up, every summer my sister and I got harder and harder jobs with them. Up to and including dressing out, and cutting into "orders" for the local customers. (Including my parents)....so, I can tell you that you will be in for a rude awakening to your senses. Nothing quite smells like death.... emoticon

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I've watched the dressing of chickens and rabbits. A hog is a whole order of magnitude different. So I have some idea...but I'm sure it will be quite different with such a large animal and doing it myself!
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DH has dressed out and butchered a fresh deer a couple of times. He had taken the deer to our processor and the freezers were full outside, and no one was there...so, had no choice. It's messy and yes..smelly...but, we had fun. We did one of them mostly in ground meat. We borrowed a homemade thing...it was a store-bought grinder with a motor and what=not attached to it...all on a big board...sure made it go faster than if we had to hand crank the darn thing! emoticon My poor kitchen was bloody beyond belief....but...we got it done (he did the gutting, skinning and buthering outside...it was just bringing it all in that got bloody..even after allowing it to hang and drain for a bit more than 24 hours!!!

Used cleaner and bleach to mop my floors in and wipe the counters and all down. Messy, but rewarding!!!

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I have extended family and friends who have butchered domestic hogs at home...... but not wild hogs.

Altho since Michigan has declared them a problem now, they have their ears open waiting for the opportunity!
(they are all hunters)

Those are great photos you shared. I really like the corner window one, I hope to have something like that in my "forever" house someday emoticon
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Curious, that corner window has been a great spot. The "farmhouse" is actually a double wide trailer - my mom just has a knack for making people instantly forget they've walked into a mobile home. The seller (the mobile home was there when we bought it - just 1 year old) was super proud that he had gotten that option even though it was expensive. Now that we have it, we are also super glad he did it!
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