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Dirtiest bird in the yard. But I love fresh eggs.
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I raised pigs for about 20 years, from the mid '70s to the mid-'90s. I did it all: butchering, cutting, packaging, making sausage, bacon, lard, and I made scrapple once -- although I didn't care for it.
The normal process is to buy 20-40 lb. piglets in the spring and they will reach slaughter weight (220-240+) by fall when it's cool out, 20-30 or so at night. Then you can hang them in the barn overnight to chill. A couple I hung around with in the early '80s went to a local fireman's raffle around Thanksgiving; I was with them. We were all shitfaced, it was just for fun. But the guy ended up winning a piglet. What a cluster****. I went the next day and bought another piglet at a farm cuz animals do better if there are others around. That worked out okay, but we ended up butchering them in June, hotter than hell out. We cut the carcasses up into the major pieces and stuck them in my freezer overnight. It all worked out in the end. Getting two hogs butchered, cleaned, and hung up was a good day's work for two people. Then cut up the next day. One year I had 6 pigs and I took them to the slaughterhouse for processing. Way too much for a couple of people. I did several pig roasts too, including my 2nd wedding at our house in 1976, pix below: The spitted pig is way in the background. Yes, that was my '70 Camaro that I sold a couple years later for $700. Guys cooking Mr. Pig, although I don't think this pik was my wedding, the pig is smaller here. It takes 24 hours to cook one properly with wood and has a unique taste, unlike anything else. Nowadays they do them in 6-8 hours with gas and it just tastes like a roast you'd do in the oven. Poor @Don Rickles, I bet he didn't have a roast hog at his wedding. |
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Due to inflation they are no longer free
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My uncle raised and sold pigs and goats during his youth. He built his house and raised six kids. I remember his pig stud, which was the size of a pony.
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I don't always raise pigs, but when I do I cast pearls before them.
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I make my swines do household chores.
Clean, cook and of course, pig iron |
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Kinda raise pigs, whenever I bring a ham sandwich up off the plate to my mouth...
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Yes - but only for recreational porpoises
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