JAGER
Senior Member
We plan to harvest another 100+ hogs during the month of March as farmers begin planting corn. Anyone wanting to fill their freezer may call Mossey Creek Outdoors in Dawson, Georgia (35 miles north of Albany) to make a request. Please contact Angel or Dan Redmond @ 229-995-4109 for all coordination.
We will only deliver the number of hogs requested each day to Mossey Creek. The processor charges $45 to skin and quarter. Just bring a cooler large enough to transport your pork home. Full processing, wrapping and sausage are also available. Call Mossey Creek for prices and details.
Mossey Creek Outdoors, LLC
2788 Americus Hwy.
Dawson, GA 39842
229-995-4109
www.mosseycreek.net
The Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) Meat Inspection section is partially funded by and receives constant oversight by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is held to USDA standards as a requirement to have a State Meat Inspection program.
In 2006, I contacted 'Hunters for the Hungry' about regulations concerning feral swine handling for their donation program. The USDA FSIS has ruled that all swine are amenable to the Federal Meat Inspection Act and even if donated are considered to be in commerce, therefore all animals must be processed under inspection at an official establishment. This would entail examining the animal alive, at rest and in motion from both sides before passing the animal for slaughter.
Hogs killed on a farm with a bullet are not eligible for donation. I asked USDA FSIS for the ability to exempt these animals either as game animals or specifically for use to donate to food banks. Their response was NO due to swine brucellosis and pseudorabies.
Feral hogs CANNOT be legally donated to food banks like deer.
We killed 812 hogs last year and expect to kill over 1,000 during 2010. We feed a large number of people in this state for free and are more than happy to do so.
However, our loyalty is with the farming community. The number of hogs which will be eaten is not the determining factor of how many hogs are killed. The mission is to immediately solve the farmer's crop damage problem in one night. The goal is to kill every hog entering the field, whether a 30 pound shoat or a 300 pound boar. Even high-volume removal only solves the problem for a short time until another group of hogs moves down the creek or river system to cause future crop damage.
We make every effort to donate our harvest each night. But we have no problem dropping them at the bottom of a hole if our removal methods exceed our walk-in cooler space. Our moral obligation is to the farmer and the landowner.
---JAGER
We will only deliver the number of hogs requested each day to Mossey Creek. The processor charges $45 to skin and quarter. Just bring a cooler large enough to transport your pork home. Full processing, wrapping and sausage are also available. Call Mossey Creek for prices and details.
Mossey Creek Outdoors, LLC
2788 Americus Hwy.
Dawson, GA 39842
229-995-4109
www.mosseycreek.net
The Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) Meat Inspection section is partially funded by and receives constant oversight by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is held to USDA standards as a requirement to have a State Meat Inspection program.
In 2006, I contacted 'Hunters for the Hungry' about regulations concerning feral swine handling for their donation program. The USDA FSIS has ruled that all swine are amenable to the Federal Meat Inspection Act and even if donated are considered to be in commerce, therefore all animals must be processed under inspection at an official establishment. This would entail examining the animal alive, at rest and in motion from both sides before passing the animal for slaughter.
Hogs killed on a farm with a bullet are not eligible for donation. I asked USDA FSIS for the ability to exempt these animals either as game animals or specifically for use to donate to food banks. Their response was NO due to swine brucellosis and pseudorabies.
Feral hogs CANNOT be legally donated to food banks like deer.
We killed 812 hogs last year and expect to kill over 1,000 during 2010. We feed a large number of people in this state for free and are more than happy to do so.
However, our loyalty is with the farming community. The number of hogs which will be eaten is not the determining factor of how many hogs are killed. The mission is to immediately solve the farmer's crop damage problem in one night. The goal is to kill every hog entering the field, whether a 30 pound shoat or a 300 pound boar. Even high-volume removal only solves the problem for a short time until another group of hogs moves down the creek or river system to cause future crop damage.
We make every effort to donate our harvest each night. But we have no problem dropping them at the bottom of a hole if our removal methods exceed our walk-in cooler space. Our moral obligation is to the farmer and the landowner.
---JAGER
Thanks for offering this again to the good forum folks like you did last summer. What an outstanding service you provide to farmers & to those who need or want hogs for feeding their families. 
