Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[farmerjan]

With the cold it is easy to forgive Stubby trying to be a mom when they are first learning to lay down with piglets. The cold and making a nest makes it hard to hear the piglets when they lay on them because they can't feel them with all the bedding.

I'm with your DH about feeding the other sow and putting her in the freezer. 3 bad litters? The second litter would have been her ticket out, here. You need the meat, why are you once again going to put time and money into a sow that cannot, will not raise a litter? Put her "feed costs" into a better female. You are throwing good money after bad.
Sorry, just my opinion, but you are trying to provide for yourself and the family, and you are trying to buy sensibly and stock up to get through the winter. Why feed a sow that is costing you, not just money, but in emotional upset.

 

[misfitmorgan]

With the cold it is easy to forgive Stubby trying to be a mom when they are first learning to lay down with piglets. The cold and making a nest makes it hard to hear the piglets when they lay on them because they can't feel them with all the bedding.

I'm with your DH about feeding the other sow and putting her in the freezer. 3 bad litters? The second litter would have been her ticket out, here. You need the meat, why are you once again going to put time and money into a sow that cannot, will not raise a litter? Put her "feed costs" into a better female. You are throwing good money after bad.
Sorry, just my opinion, but you are trying to provide for yourself and the family, and you are trying to buy sensibly and stock up to get through the winter. Why feed a sow that is costing you, not just money, but in emotional upset.

The main reason is really because she is close enough to give us spring piglets. We already have registered replacement gilts but they need time to grow as they were only born this summer. Also it is DHs favorite pig, which financially is a stupid reason I know. If she had 2 bad litters back to back she would have been gone. She has had a total of 7 litters now and 3 have been bad, those 3 have been spaced out with good ones between. That's the frustrating part like she is deciding when to be a mom or not. The other downside is because of her age (4+yrs old) and size 450+lbs she will have to be all ground and a few roasts.

Honestly it's also to cold outside to want to spend that much time out there in the snow. Skinning pigs that large is not a fast process.

 

[Bruce]

Sounds like Sara needs to be restricted to spring litters. Of course that doesn't make her a financial plus having only one litter a year but at least you don't have the heartache of dying litters in the fall.

Why am I going to meijers you ask??

Actually I'm wondering why you are going to Wally World to buy more flour after buying 50# at Meijer.

Since we like chicken fried steak

If there is no chicken in it and it isn't fried by chickens, why is it called chicken fried steak?

 

[misfitmorgan]

Sounds like Sara needs to be restricted to spring litters. Of course that doesn't make her a financial plus having only one litter a year but at least you don't have the heartache of dying litters in the fall.


Actually I'm wondering why you are going to Wally World to buy more flour after buying 50# at Meijer.


If there is no chicken in it and it isn't fried by chickens, why is it called chicken fried steak?

Because Meijer's is all purpose flour for 99 cents. I also need bread flour which is cheaper at walmart then bread flour at meijers.

It's chicken fried - steak as in steak fried like chicken It actually varies by region/preference weather it is beef or pork cube steak used. I've had both I think beef is better.

 

[farmerjan]

Sometimes I have to laugh at @Bruce 's posts.... he takes things so literally... even more so than me. I must've missed or forgotten that she has also given you some good litters.... But a 450 sow doesn't have to be mostly ground.... I had a sow done up into everything normal and she dressed at over 550... chops were HUGE.... most hogs don't get "tough" with age. I can see the possibilities of a spring litter....hope she is an "easy keeper" so that it doesn't cost you an arm and a leg to feed her through your cold winter....

 

[Baymule]

If there is no chicken in it and it isn't fried by chickens, why is it called chicken fried steak?

Don't you have chicken fried steak in Vermont? In Texas, cafes are judged by their chicken fried steak! Chicken fried steak is round steak, tenderized, breaded and fried to a golden brown. Yum!

It's chicken fried - steak as in steak fried like chicken It actually varies by region/preference weather it is beef or pork cube steak used. I've had both I think beef is better.

You nailed it, except that pork is not chicken fried steak! LOL I suspect that my lamb chicken fried steak is a Texas culinary travesty.

 

[Bruce]

We probably do Bay, I just don't understand the naming of it. "Cooked like fried chicken" is a reasonable answer though like fried Oreos and the many other battered and fried foods (mostly "fair food"), I don't know why one would want to do that to beef.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

For what it's worth, chicken fried steak is one of my favorite meals: chicken fried steak, milk flour gravy, pan fried potatoes, hot bisquits, and sweetened tea. That is what I had for my birthday present this year.

 

[Bruce]

That is quite an endorsement!

 

[Baymule]

We probably do Bay, I just don't understand the naming of it. "Cooked like fried chicken" is a reasonable answer though like fried Oreos and the many other battered and fried foods (mostly "fair food"), I don't know why one would want to do that to beef.

How do you prepare round steak? It's not exactly a tender cut like a rib eye or T bone. Round steak is supposed to be tenderized and chicken fried. I have aluminum mallets that I use to beat the smack out of the steak, if I don't buy it already tenderized. When my kids were small, I stood them on chairs pulled up to the kitchen counter and gave each of them a mallet. They delightedly beat the steak, with each blow yelling POW! POW! They called it Pow Pow steak. Daughter was 11 years old when she finally asked me, "Just what kind of meat is Pow Pow steak?"