Author Topic: Bye piggies (Read 2856 times)

fsmnutter · « **on:** August 20, 2014, 09:15:46 am »

Well these will be the first animals born to us that go off down the road, and it's a little bit

Made slightly better by also getting rid of their mother who was always a grumpy sow.

Clansman · « **Reply #1 on:** August 20, 2014, 09:55:56 am »

Are they going to a new home or will they returning in a different form?

kelly58 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 20, 2014, 10:11:16 am »

Ah, they have had a good life, never easy.

Still miss mine

fsmnutter · « **Reply #3 on:** August 20, 2014, 01:14:44 pm »

We have sent quite a few

to new homes as pets or potential meat weaners (none of whom have made it to abattoir!)
These will be our first homebred pigs to come back as sausages/barbecue pig
Still feels harder than home slaughtering our first

who we got at 3 days old.
Maybe

just get under the skin more!

SophieLeeds · « **Reply #4 on:** August 20, 2014, 02:16:52 pm »

Quote from: fsmnutter on August 20, 2014, 01:14:44 pm

We have sent quite a few to new homes as pets or potential meat weaners (none of whom have made it to abattoir!)
These will be our first homebred pigs to come back as sausages/barbecue pig
Still feels harder than home slaughtering our first who we got at 3 days old.
Maybe just get under the skin more!

Sent some of ours this morning so sympathise entirely! Sent my little berkshire who I hand raised

All be worth it on Sunday morning at breakfast time

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #5 on:** August 20, 2014, 03:25:47 pm »

Yes they do. :hugpig:

Thankfully, by the time they've been hung and butchered, you've had a bit of time to adjust. And usually the first mouthful helps

HappyHippy · « **Reply #6 on:** August 20, 2014, 10:19:35 pm »

You'll be fine and they'll be tasty

It's the hardest part of the process for me too, but it's the one part that has to happen if I'm going to breed more pigs - you can't keep them all $:-\$
Good luck and think what lucky pigs they were to live with you

Mammyshaz · « **Reply #7 on:** August 21, 2014, 09:29:53 am »

they had a good life with you, still not easy

Liam_86 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 21, 2014, 12:30:07 pm »

you should be proud of what you have raised.

I find people turn their nose up at me and call me cruel for rearing my pigs......Then the same people go home and eat intensive reared pork from a pig that probably hasnt seen daylight, was pumped full of water and killed at 12 weeks!!!

Be proud, eat well and get some more

Beeducked · « **Reply #9 on:** August 26, 2014, 09:23:19 pm »

Our first weaners went today which was hard but a really big day and felt like a real achievement even if we didn't raise them from the very beginning. Know it would be even harder if we had but know that the first ducks we took from egg to table was the best I had ever eaten so expecting the same from these!