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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: WinslowPorker on September 17, 2012, 07:21:18 pm

Title: thats its the pigs are booked in for the final destination
Post by: WinslowPorker on September 17, 2012, 07:21:18 pm

Hi all,
well thats it the first herd of pigs are booked into the abbatoir on Monday! bring on the sausages and then start looking for a few more weaners
will let u know the weights - live, carcass and meat only because i will find it interesting
WP  :wave:

Title: Re: thats its the pigs are booked in for the final destination
Post by: Sylvia on September 17, 2012, 07:53:40 pm

And, if these are your first, you won't sleep properly or eat properly until Monday evening ;)  Been there, done that etc. Monday, driving back home with an empty trailer you will feel awful until you know for certain that your pigs have "gone".  :hug:

Title: Re: thats its the pigs are booked in for the final destination
Post by: Mammyshaz on September 17, 2012, 07:59:28 pm

Good luck , hope all goes well for you  :fc:   

Title: Re: thats its the pigs are booked in for the final destination
Post by: WinslowPorker on September 17, 2012, 08:01:30 pm

I have done pigs before about 2 years ago, but strangely i feel more unsettled thsi time  :-\ dont know why unless i have 2 years soppier as i am 2 years older  ;D

Title: Re: thats its the pigs are booked in for the final destination
Post by: Bionic on September 17, 2012, 08:02:14 pm

WP, my first pigs are off on Wed.  Its going to feel funny with them gone  :(
Sally

Title: Re: thats its the pigs are booked in for the final destination
Post by: Daisys Mum on September 17, 2012, 08:16:10 pm

 
My sixth lot went last week and I still felt sick for about 2 days before and until I saw them hanging in the butchers and then it just seems to feel right.

Title: Re: thats its the pigs are booked in for the final destination
Post by: mwncigirl on September 18, 2012, 02:02:59 pm

You wait till you taste you're meat! We've done one lot, now on the second, we were going to have a break but, well, we couldn't wait to have more little piggies. What an exciting journey and fabulous meat!

Title: Re: thats its the pigs are booked in for the final destination
Post by: artscott on September 19, 2012, 12:10:16 pm

Our first two went week before last, butchers last week and we now have a pig jigsaw in the freezer.
 
Abattoir was very calm and unhurried, taking them from there to the butchers was a bit more unsettling but that leg of pork on Sunday did taste incredible.  Even my wife who was most unsettled by the whole thing started smiling again.

Title: Re: thats its the pigs are booked in for the final destination
Post by: Clive on September 19, 2012, 10:09:27 pm

We had our first killed a couple of weeks ago. Wasn't as bad as I expected and, as Daisy's Mum says, it seemed right once he was in the butchers. The only thing we got wrong is that we sold him so we have to wait till his brothers go to get a proper taste!