Author Topic: How much room??  (Read 4479 times)

paulsou

  • Joined May 2009
How much room??
« on: September 05, 2009, 11:47:57 am »
My 2 pigs have gone to slaughter & i need to sort storage for the meat on return, can anybody tell me how much freezer space the average pig takes up?

Unicorn

  • Guest
Re: How much room??
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2009, 01:00:36 pm »
How big were they?

What was the kill out weight at the abbatoir?

How will the meat be packed - vaccum sealed?

What weight / girth were the pigs when slaughtered?

How long is a piece of string ;D ;D - It seems that you killed them too young to me, but maybe they have
got fat quick from the feed you gave them.  Did you not get any information from the person who sold you
the weaners - advice etc.?

Unless you can answer some of the above questions no-one can tell you what storage you need.  As they were only with you for three months, they might both fit in one chest freezer, as I doubt they would have
been anything near the weight to slaughter.

Hilarysmum

  • Joined Oct 2007
Re: How much room??
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2009, 03:49:22 pm »
One thing springs to mind: did you have the meat boned out, it saves on freezer space if you did.

paulsou

  • Joined May 2009
Re: How much room??
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2009, 06:00:20 pm »
They were 28 weeks old, one was roughly 95 kilos live weight and the other was aprox 78 kilos

 

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