got a couple of pigs

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ncnurseryman

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Every year or so I get a couple of feeder pigs to finish for slaughtering. They are a hoot to raise and quite funny at times. They keep all the under brush cleaned out and they sure taste good. Two hogs will fill a full size freezer top to bottom. Anyone else here raise hogs?
 
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Hers a pic. The first time didn't load???

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Was thinking about getting one this year, just depends on if the wife will let me send it off when its big enough, I'm afraid it will be a pet.
 
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Raised two years ago in Wa. state (duey & louy). Yep, filled my freezer. No kitchen scaps went over the fence for six months, except for tomato waste, pigs won't touch a tomato.

mark
 
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I raised registered Berkshire hogs when I was a kid in the 4-H Club; still have 16 ribbons I won in fairs and fat stock shows. And of course we butchered some for our own meat. But I've not done anything like that since the early '50s.
 
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We do 2 every 2 years. Tamworth's so far. We keep them out with the goats and they eat alot of greenery and sometimes a lot of roots too.
They sure do taste better than grocery store pork and being on grass they can get sort of a nice beefy flavour too.
A nice chop cooked over charcoal with some apple wood is pretty darn good!:licking:
 
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Yup - just took mine for a walk. He weights a little over 30 pounds full-grown and minds better than my hounds. I just don't let him see me eating his cousins:p
 

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Was thinking about getting one this year, just depends on if the wife will let me send it off when its big enough, I'm afraid it will be a pet.

I am NOT afraid that it would be a pet. I KNOW it would be a pet and thus never put in the freezer. :D:D:D

I have been told many times that we cannot eat our chickens. Only the eggs. :eek:

Later,
Dan
 
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We do 2 every 2 years. Tamworth's so far. We keep them out with the goats and they eat alot of greenery and sometimes a lot of roots too.
They sure do taste better than grocery store pork and being on grass they can get sort of a nice beefy flavour too.
A nice chop cooked over charcoal with some apple wood is pretty darn good!:licking:

That is good to know. I had considered the Tamworths because they are supposed to be good forgers and are hardy. Since they are "endangered" I would want to breed them which I have no time to do. :eek:

I bet Oscar is not liking this thread and maybe looking at Eddie a bit differently....

:D:D:D

Later,
Dan
 
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Mark, that's odd that your pigs won't eat tomatoes. All the ones I have had will fight for them. Any bad tomatoes from the garden go straight to them along will all other vegetable scraps. In the fall I gather up loads of acorns and they love those too.
 

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