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| Anyone remember the little piggy we brought home last September? |
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| 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. |
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| We borrowed the neighbors tractor to hang her on. |
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| The boys trying to figure out how this thing works. :) |
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| 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! |
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| Cutting her apart. |
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| 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. |
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| Taking the meat off of the bones took some time. It was layers of fat - meat - fat - meat. |
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| A large yummy hunk of meat. Well it doesn't look very yummy at the moment, so just picture it cooked! :) lol |
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| Our unique way of grinding it into burger. Hey, it works!! |
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| The little boys did a really good job of helping us! |
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| packing it |
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| We canned some, too. |
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| We got 160 pounds of meat from her. |
