Bye Bye Porky!

Anyone remember the little piggy we brought home last September?

Well, we had a little problem with keeping Porky a little piggy, and the bigger she got the more food she ate. So sadly the day came that we had to put her into the freezer. She was a wonderful composter, eating most everything we gave her. Even though she is gone, we still find ourselves saying, "Just throw it into, Porky."  There wasn't a piece of food wasted around here. Even the extra greens out of our greenhouse went to Porky.

We borrowed the neighbors tractor to hang her on.

The boys trying to figure out how this thing works. :)

This is the first time that we ever butchered a pig, and it was  different then doing a goat, deer, cow etc.. She had so many layers of fat!

Cutting her apart.

We put the meat down in to 50 gallon drums with ice to cool it. The fat came off much better when it was cold. 

Taking the meat off of the bones took some time. It was layers of fat - meat - fat - meat.

A large yummy hunk of meat. Well it doesn't look very yummy at the moment, so just picture it cooked! :) lol

Our unique way of grinding it into burger. Hey, it works!!

The little boys did a really good job of helping us! 

packing it

We canned some, too.

We got 160 pounds of meat from her.