Missouri | Bruce Avison - 1/12/2013 08:54
Curious, is there any meat on them 100 lb'ers? Wife was asking, expensive to take to the abbatoir, but wondering if there's anything there if they clean up old feed, run them on some grass, etc. Makes me sound like a hippy, but I'm more after having 1 or 2 around for sausage alone. If the meat is there I'd consider having a "pet" for the summer and then into the deep freeze you go :D And no livestock is a pet, flat out. Living, breathing, working animals is what they are. Just to clarify.
There's not enough meat on them to make it worth the effort required to butcher, and certainly not enough meat on them to justify paying the butcher. There's more than just size here. Usually by the time a runt pig reaches that size, its littermates are somewhere in the 200 lb range. That 100 pound animal doesn't just look small by comparision. I can't explain it well, but they just have an oddly unappetizing sickly look to them. You just don't look at the animal and think, "I want to eat that," you look at the animal, scratch your head, and think, "I wonder what's wrong with it." |
Pig/Piglet "Bouncing"
