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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby OldUsedParts » Sat Jan 05, 2019 11:34 am

10-4 on that one Sir Roy :tup: :salut:
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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby Txdragon » Sun Jan 06, 2019 12:40 pm

Dusting with a new layer of salt today, this thing has tightened up CONSIDERABLY. Tells me that after only 6 days, it's near ready for part 2. Weather over the next couple days is just not going to allow me to hang it the way I wanted. So, it will continue in the fridge a bit longer. I normally follow my salt phase with a sugar bath for about 24hrs/lb. I'll be adding some standard pickling spice to it this time around; bay leaf, coriander, mustard seed, allspice, clove, juniper berry, etc.. I haven't done that on the normal with hams before but certainly for corned beef. Hmmm...
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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby OldUsedParts » Sun Jan 06, 2019 3:20 pm

Lawdy at the patience and persistence of that young man :bow: :wav:
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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby spacetrucker » Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:00 pm

sounds like you have done this a time or two.. :salut:
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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby Txdragon » Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:15 pm

spacetrucker wrote:sounds like you have done this a time or two.. :salut:

A couple! Think I've only done about 60 hams total.
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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby Russ » Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:49 pm

Txd, I'm loving this thread. Takes me back 35 years when I used to kill and process home kill. My kids and prolly most don't know how to do the old fashioned stuff. I did lamb and pigs. My grandkids would kill me if they knew. Look forward to end pics. I love ham.

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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby Txdragon » Mon Jan 07, 2019 5:18 am

Russ wrote:Txd, I'm loving this thread. Takes me back 35 years when I used to kill and process home kill. My kids and prolly most don't know how to do the old fashioned stuff. I did lamb and pigs. My grandkids would kill me if they knew. Look forward to end pics. I love ham.

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I'm still looking for some starter pairs to start my sheep/lamb production. Nobody wants to let go of their breedstock so I've gotta wait for the lambs and start way into the beginning. Lol
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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby Russ » Mon Jan 07, 2019 4:22 pm

Txdragon wrote:
Russ wrote:Txd, I'm loving this thread. Takes me back 35 years when I used to kill and process home kill. My kids and prolly most don't know how to do the old fashioned stuff. I did lamb and pigs. My grandkids would kill me if they knew. Look forward to end pics. I love ham.

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I'm still looking for some starter pairs to start my sheep/lamb production. Nobody wants to let go of their breedstock so I've gotta wait for the lambs and start way into the beginning. Lol


Lamb priceS arE crazy here to. Last year they fetched up to $180 a head.

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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby Txdragon » Mon Jan 07, 2019 6:46 pm

Russ wrote:
Lamb priceS arE crazy here to. Last year they fetched up to $180 a head.

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They're going about that price here too. Adults are around 220-250. Usually ewes are about 200 and rams will fetch 250 or more.
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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby TechieQ » Mon Jan 07, 2019 6:48 pm

Gee. Is Forney really still that "small town" on the outskirts of Dallas. I'm going to have to make a point to visit at some point. I grew up in a small town in South Texas and it was my job to empty burlap sacks of horse feed into our feedbox in the barn, as well as opening bales of hay and storing the balin' war in a 55 gallon drum. Wasn't much around that homestead Dad couldn't fix with bailin' war and bubble gum. It was like duct tape before duct tape was cool.
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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby Txdragon » Mon Jan 07, 2019 6:56 pm

TechieQ wrote:Gee. Is Forney really still that "small town" on the outskirts of Dallas. I'm going to have to make a point to visit at some point. I grew up in a small town in South Texas and it was my job to empty burlap sacks of horse feed into our feedbox in the barn, as well as opening bales of hay and storing the balin' war in a 55 gallon drum. Wasn't much around that homestead Dad couldn't fix with bailin' war and bubble gum. It was like duct tape before duct tape was cool.

I moved away from Forney about 5 years ago. I now live in middle of nowhere, USA. Lost in Arkansas. Lol
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Postby TechieQ » Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:18 pm

Txdragon wrote:I moved away from Forney about 5 years ago. I now live in middle of nowhere, USA. Lost in Arkansas. Lol


OK. Sorry. Your bio under your name still lists Forney. I'm new here and didn't know about your move. What part of AR are you in? My in-laws are on the outskirts of Ft. Smith.
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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby Txdragon » Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:23 pm

TechieQ wrote:
Txdragon wrote:I moved away from Forney about 5 years ago. I now live in middle of nowhere, USA. Lost in Arkansas. Lol


OK. Sorry. Your bio under your name still lists Forney. I'm new here and didn't know about your move. What part of AR are you in? My in-laws are on the outskirts of Ft. Smith.

Nice. I'm about 3 hours from there.
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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby Txdragon » Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:33 am

2 weeks in, phase 1 complete. Phase 2 starts now! Sugar and spice bath for 24hrs/lb. Started at 14 lb, now 10. 4 lb moisture loss in the salt/dry phase. Not too shabby!
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Re: Homegrown ham!

Postby Rambo » Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:48 am

This outa be good

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