Author Topic: how long does it take to eat a pig (Read 3312 times)

harry · « **on:** August 27, 2011, 08:32:38 pm »

how long does it take to eat a good weight kk, not such a daft question as i want to plan the next lot, .... so if it takes 3 months

for 2 people that love sausages and bacon and everything else to eat a pig it follows that if i have 2 pigs i need to get new piglets in when this current lot are 6 months old so there is constant supply. if i wait till this lot are meat, it will take almost a year to raise the next lot so there will be a long gap with no pork. (there is only so much space in the freezer)...

welshlass181 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2011, 08:37:59 pm »

Urm i'm not the best one to comment on this as i've a freezer full of chops, joints, shoulders, ribs and belly pork. The bigger they are the more things you get from them .... i was shocked at how many chops we got for 3 bigger females !!!!! Didn't have sausages made as i want to have a go myself at making them (eventually) and i didn't ask for bacon as i had noooooooooooo idea that my pigs would be big enough to get chops from let alone bacon.

harry · « **Reply #2 on:** August 27, 2011, 08:44:39 pm »

how big to kks have to be to get bacon

welshlass181 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 27, 2011, 09:18:57 pm »

Happyhippy will be the best one to answer this one ... sorry can't help really. I do know that the bacon from KK's are small but ppl say they are really tasty

chickenfeed · « **Reply #4 on:** August 27, 2011, 09:30:06 pm »

you can make bacon from any size pig, obviously the smaller the chop the smaller your back rasher will be, just to get a idea look at your belly slab & chops would you be happy with that size of rasher on your plate ? i have seen kk bacon very small and very tasty.

Beewyched · « **Reply #5 on:** August 27, 2011, 10:16:42 pm »

We've only made bacon from 1 of our KKs & he was live-weight 108kgs killing-out at 82kgs & the size definately compared with the stuff in the supermarket - only much, MUCH better

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #6 on:** August 27, 2011, 11:10:23 pm »

We seem to be eating ours at the rate of about 2 80kg deadweight pigs per annum for two of us plus I give a lot away (maybe a fifth of the total) to friends and family. I note to myself that each of us is therefore eating about a third of our calorific requirements from pork... which would be fine if we didn't also eat our own lamb, beef, butter, cheese, eggs, ... no wonder I am having difficulty getting my weight back down to [something nearer to] where it should be!