I bought a 35lb. pig, and raised it to over 350lb. this past summer.

After butchering we ground the shoulders&trimmings to make about 40 lb.s of brats, and sausage.

I got 8 beautiful racks of baby back ribs

Rendering the fat we ended up with about 10lbs. of the worlds best pork rinds&6 2lb. coffee cans of lard

I brewed up 18 gallons of brine, then injected it into the hams

Placed hams&bacon into buckets and soaked in chilled brine. hams get 10 day soak, bacon 3 days in fridge kept at 38 degrees.

After soaking in brine we smoke the bacon and brats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwgMxiA_g_E

Where's the picture of some of those brats cooking? Looks good and I know it a lot of work too.

Fineshed product

Sliced the bacon on my slicer

Ended up with about 38 lbs, of bacon

Oh great, now I'm hungry again!

Now to really make you hungry! I also had two deer hams that I brined, and smoked!
This was a 35lb Bambi that committed suicide when it ran into a chainlink fence.
One ham I boned out the other I left whole

This is the whole ham with a nice finishing glaze

This is the boned out one that I sliced into lunch meat!It is wiith out doubt the best deer ham in the world!

That looks great.What kind of wood did use for the smoke?

Alright, I'm headed to the fridge now!

This is the hog hams&hocks. One ham was left whole bone in, for the holidays. The other I boned out before smoking, and sliced into 1/4"ham steaks, and lunch meat.

Hickory, sugar maple, and apple.

Nice Job, no waste either . Im buying a pig now lol

You really are an artist with a pig. lol I wish you lived closer to me. I raise about 7,000 hogs a year. Oh the beautiful pictures we could make together.

No waste, I even smoked the bones for my lil girl

That would cut into my deer hunting time!

How about some pictures of your smoker. I have been wanting to build one and not sure where to start.

If you want a good receipe for deer burgers try this. Buy some cheap smoked bacon ends & pieces at your local grocery store. Mix a pack or two in with your deer burger when you grind it up. It makes delicious deer bacon burgers. Put on the grill. Excellent!!!!!!! Also, just mixing a small amount of pork in with your deer burger really mellows it out for those that aren't real keen on straight venison and with the pork mixed in it adds a little grease so it frys up better.

CAn you discuss the brine in more detail? Did you inject the same brind as you soaked it in? or two different recipes? What was your brine made out of if you dont mind giving out the trade secrets.