Latest Happenings
This year we are raising around 40 Cornish Cross broilers. We are excited to partner with this year’s ArtStart Farm to Table dinner and provide our poultry as part of the meal.
“Vivamus pellentesque vitae neque at vestibulum. Donec efficitur mollis dui vel pharetra.”
Leroy (the Orange Dog) on poultry inspection duty
Well, we’re officially cattle farmers.
This year's cohort of pigs has arrived on the farm!
UPDATE: We are sold out of shares for the 2018 season. We will have a limited amount of individual cuts available for purchase in late October.
We sell our pork as whole and half shares. We price our pork shares at $3.50 per pound (hanging weight) plus butchering fees, which cost around $150 per half share. Typical half-share hanging weight is around 100–115 lbs. This means a 105-lb half share will cost approximately $515.
In order to sell pork in the state of Wisconsin, it must be butchered at a USDA-inspected facility. Your pork share will be butchered and available for pick-up from Geiss Meats in Merrill, Wisconsin in mid-November. Local delivery will be available on a limited basis for an additional fee.
Please contact us (orangedogfarmWI[@]gmail.com) to reserve your pasture-raised pork share. Each share requires a $150 deposit.
What comes in my box?
Following is an example of the types of cuts and quantities you should expect from your half-share. We aim for a hanging weight of at least 100 lbs per half-share. Our butcher will guide you through selecting your cuts, trim options (e.g., brats, bacon, ground pork, breakfast sausages, etc.) and their packaging. We can also make arrangements post-processing if you would prefer to butcher your half-share yourself.
Sample Half-Share
Hanging weight = 106 lbs
Total packaged-meat weight: 77.25 lbs
Selected Trim options were brats and ground pork
2 hams: Average weight 9.5 lbs
10 packages of ¾” pork chops (packaged in 2s): Average weight 1.4 lbs per package
2 picnic roasts: Average weight 2.4 lbs
2 packages of ¾” pork steaks (packaged in 2s): Average weight 1.8 lbs per package
Spareribs: 2.60 lbs
Butt roast: 2.05 lbs
7 packages of brats (6 brats per package): Average weight 1.55 lbs per package
10 packages of bacon: total of 9.55 lbs of bacon
11 packages of ground pork: 11 lbs (1 lb per package)
It has been a long (and snowy) winter. But the temperatures are finally hitting that sweet spot for the maple sap to flow! Today we tapped somewhere around 40 maple trees on our property.
