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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: TheSmilingSheep on March 21, 2017, 03:17:45 pm

Title: euphemisms
Post by: TheSmilingSheep on March 21, 2017, 03:17:45 pm

(I couldn't bring myself to raise this in the sheep forum due to idyllic lambing time of year.... felt a bit insensitive!)
But...
when the time comes for your precious boys and/or girls to be slaughtered [  ::) ]  what phrases do you use to describe the day/event....?

Title: Re: euphemisms
Post by: DartmoorLiz on March 21, 2017, 04:00:15 pm

I've heard people talk about "going down the rainbow road" and I have been known to threaten my ponies with the glue factory but they don't take me seriously and seem to know that doesn't happen any more.

Title: Re: euphemisms
Post by: SallyintNorth on March 21, 2017, 04:04:08 pm

'Send him/her/them away/down the road'

Title: Re: euphemisms
Post by: Eve on March 21, 2017, 04:58:41 pm

Going to the big farm in the sky
Coming for dinner


 :pig: :yum:

Title: Re: euphemisms
Post by: Fleecewife on March 21, 2017, 05:12:19 pm

Mint sauce time lads  :yum:  as they get in the trailer.


See you for dinner lads as we leave them behind  :(

Title: Re: euphemisms
Post by: Womble on March 22, 2017, 08:05:20 am

I tell ours they're going for a day out at the seaside.

That sounds terrible when you see it written down!  :o

Title: Re: euphemisms
Post by: TheSmilingSheep on March 22, 2017, 09:38:49 am

I also promise a trip to the seaside!
I quite like the invitation to dinner.... in a cruel, heartless, morbid sort of way!!!!!

Any chance of a slaughterhouse icon, Dan?

Title: Re: euphemisms
Post by: devonlady on March 22, 2017, 04:31:56 pm

"Going to Somerset" for the sake of young children or just "going" for the rest of us.

Title: Re: euphemisms
Post by: Piggerswiggers on March 22, 2017, 06:49:24 pm

Trip to the departure lounge.

Title: Re: euphemisms
Post by: Hairybathplug on March 23, 2017, 07:57:47 am

Freezer pets

Title: Re: euphemisms
Post by: Marches Farmer on March 27, 2017, 12:26:05 pm

Guests staying in the farm holiday cottage often like to look around the pig pens and ask me what their names are.  I point to one and say "Porky" then the next and say "Porky" and .....