Kepler's UnclesBye Bye Pigs
Submitted by robin on Sun, 01/30/2005 - 3:10pm.
Farm Journal
On January 12, we said goodbye to this year's pigs. We'll get four big boxes of pork and so will Jessie. We let the pigs get much bigger this year than last time. They were over 200 pounds each.
Because it is rainy season, we had to have the slaughter in the front yard. The ground is too wet to drive a truck into the back. Martin did the butchering again, then took them over to Bud's Meats for cutting, smoking and wrapping.
We got the pink pig on August 29 or thereabouts. We got the black pig a few weeks later. Then Jessie brought over some other pigs, but he sold or traded these within a few weeks. My best guess is that our pigs were about 6 months old when we had them slaughtered.
Does it bother you to think about this? Where do you think your meat comes from? I know that the pork I'll be eating for the next year came from pigs who had a good life. We fed them every day for 6 months, and now they'll feed us.
Because it is rainy season, we had to have the slaughter in the front yard. The ground is too wet to drive a truck into the back. Martin did the butchering again, then took them over to Bud's Meats for cutting, smoking and wrapping.
We got the pink pig on August 29 or thereabouts. We got the black pig a few weeks later. Then Jessie brought over some other pigs, but he sold or traded these within a few weeks. My best guess is that our pigs were about 6 months old when we had them slaughtered.
Does it bother you to think about this? Where do you think your meat comes from? I know that the pork I'll be eating for the next year came from pigs who had a good life. We fed them every day for 6 months, and now they'll feed us.