Author Topic: Gobsmacked (Read 2463 times)

welshlass181 · « **on:** August 19, 2011, 08:35:50 pm »

As most of you know we took 6 KKxgos for slaughter this week. 3 of them were fairly small as we needed them gone and the other 3 were bigger. This is only the 2nd time we've taken pigs to slaughter.

On arriving the man said "Shall we do the same as before?" and i simply said "Lets see what the 3 bigger ones look like on the hook and play it by ear. If you think that you can joint/cut them then go for it"

Hubby went to get them this morning then picked me up so we could sort it all out and freeze it. I saw the bags in the car and thought nothing of it. When we took them from the car to the house i nearly died !!! Last time we took them they came 1 per bag with a bag of offal. This time there was 11 bags ...... I've never seen so many chops lol they're not massive but they're really lean and look fab. There was a bit of meat (not sure which bit sorry) that had a decent layer of fat on it so we were happy to see that.

The 3 smaller ones came back with a primary cut, which is what i expected. But i was in awe at the quantity of meat from the bigger ones

i had planned of weighing it all but i lost count. My freezer is now chocka block so need to brush up on the old pork cooking lol bring on the smoker

Eve · « **Reply #1 on:** August 19, 2011, 10:30:15 pm »

Enjoy!

Barrett · « **Reply #2 on:** August 20, 2011, 03:19:10 pm »

Hi Welshlass, congrats on the success of the KKXGOS I have only GOS myself and there meat alone is superb, one of the farmers on TV breeds KK for meat and rave's about the quality perhaps worth keeping a little longer or reducing there activities for a short time for them to get a bit bigger, I hurdle my GOS in for 6-8 weeks just to finish off and give the pen a rest before the next lot invade it.

little blue · « **Reply #3 on:** August 20, 2011, 07:49:27 pm »

mmmm!

Barrett · « **Reply #4 on:** August 20, 2011, 09:18:37 pm »

Little Blue what does mmmm mean?

welshlass181 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 20, 2011, 09:45:16 pm »

i took it as a yuummmm

piggy · « **Reply #6 on:** August 20, 2011, 09:49:45 pm »

I also thought it meant yum yum.

little blue · « **Reply #7 on:** August 21, 2011, 07:55:16 pm »

yes, yum .... sorry!!!

Beewyched · « **Reply #8 on:** August 25, 2011, 07:26:19 pm »

Quote from: Barrett on August 20, 2011, 03:19:10 pm

Hi Welshlass, congrats on the success of the KKXGOS I have only GOS myself and there meat alone is superb, one of the farmers on TV breeds KK for meat and rave's about the quality perhaps worth keeping a little longer or reducing there activities for a short time for them to get a bit bigger, I hurdle my GOS in for 6-8 weeks just to finish off and give the pen a rest before the next lot invade it.

I certainly agree with Kunes for meat & giving them longer to finish. We've had a 14-month castrate produce HUGE chops & joints, producing 82kgs of rough joints. Entire boars have killed-out at 43-54kgs at 10-months, with no boar-taint (though HappyHippy has yet to put her nose in our freezer

). I wouldn't recommend curtailing their activities though, as they really do have a tendancy to put down fat very quickly - free range with minimal hard feed after 6-months (non during the summer months for non-breeding stock & no more than 2lbs per day with hay/silage/haylage in the winter)