Baymule's Pigs 2017-2018

[Baymule]

What a nice problem to have, lamb, chicken, pork, half a beef, and lots of vegetables. People in the country know how to grow their own food. Yum!

 

[Bruce]

@Baymule you can send me a pork belly and @Mike CHS you can send me any extra lamb you can't fit

 

[Baymule]

Just dropped off pigs. Pick up meat in about 2 weeks. Yay!

 

[Baymule]

Got hanging weight on pigs. The sow is 245 pounds! That means she must've been bumping 500 pounds live weight! Sooooo glad I didn't keep her!! The boar's weight is 216.

 

[Bruce]

So glad you didn't have to push them into the trailer!

 

[farmerjan]

On hogs you will find that the hanging weight is more like 2/3 the live weight as opposed to cattle that run closer to 50-60% of live weight. Hogs do not have as much gut weight, skin/hooves etc are less than bovine. I would say the sow and boar weighed in 400 and 350 weight range, by looking at the pictures.

 

[Baymule]

Thanks farmerjan!

 

[Bruce]

I would think 400 pounds is still a big lump if you have to move it and it doesn't want to.
Did you consider putting her on SlimFast?

 

[Latestarter]

She DID the pig slim fast... took it to the butcher for a kill shot followed by gutting and beheading... Lost 2/3 of her weight rather quickly is my guess.

 

[Baymule]

We had them 36 days. That comes to 461 pounds of meat.