I was told by an honest to golly mountain man that hog-hide breathes better than cow-hide. Ergo (my wording) he made his summer duds out of hog-hide.
“Wow” thought I.
So…what do the hog-skinners do with all the hog-skins? Maybe I can get into a new line of work as a hogskin fashion designer.
I’m not an expert, but have raised and slaughtered both pigs and cattle. A pig generally reaches a market weight of around 230 pounds. After this weight they tend to put on less weight per pound of feed, and become less efficient meat producers. The cattle I raised were slaughtered at around 1200 pounds.
Obviously, there’s a lot more hide on a cow. As a individual, I would boil and scrape the hog, but I assume commercial producers would skin it.
You could make coats and such out of pigskin by sewing together multiple skins, cause what the hell, they make mink coats, and those guys are tiny, but I figure it’s a lot easier to just use cowhide commercially. Pigskin clothing is available though, I just now googled some up. Nice coat, and at 572 euros it ought to be.
Work gloves are often pigskin.
Bill, That’s an Italian Leather Jacket. Sure, it’s pigskin, but now I’ve got a whole 'nother song running through my head! And it ain’t pretty!
Animal skins are also often processed to produce gelatin, fertiliser and (although not so much nowadays)glue.
And of course rendered for lard.
They put them in jars and sell them to deranged bloggers. Vol II is where it’s at…
An of course a lot of pigskin ends up as food, whereas I’ve, personally, never seen a cut of beef that included the skin.
Aren’t some wallets made out of pigskin? I seem to remember having one.