[Cjnewton82]

My first pigs went to the farm in the sky on Monday they were around 6months old. I had 1LB 1SB 1 GOS 1OSB. What are good dead weights??

[HappyHippy]

I'd be expecting around 50Kg deadweight from each, providing they're not overfat.
This will equate to around 40Kg of pork from each one.
HTH

[hughesy]

The saddlebacks we're currently slaughtering are about five and a half months old and are about 75kg live weight.

[Cjnewton82]

I'd be expecting around 50Kg deadweight from each, providing they're not overfat.
This will equate to around 40Kg of pork from each one.
HTH

That sounds good to me these were my first pigs so I don't think iv gone to far wrong. Have to say they felt solid to the touch didn't look or feel fat. So with any luck we will get some great Carcasses back.
My SB 59.3kg
My LB 54kg
GOS 53kg
OSB 51kg

[Tamsaddle]

Did they give you a fat measurement too?   This usually looks like "19 mm" or some number around there, ranging between 9 and 30, with no indication it relates to fat at all.    It is always the number I look at first!

[Cjnewton82]

Did they give you a fat measurement too?   This usually looks like "19 mm" or some number around there, ranging between 9 and 30, with no indication it relates to fat at all.    It is always the number I look at first!

No I haven't been given any number like that. I will ring the Abattoir in the morning see if I can get one. So I'm looking for something like a 19mm of fat and a 50kg dead weight from a 6month old pig right??
Thanks once again for the info I'm learning more everyday.

[Cjnewton82]

I rang the Abattoir this morning apparently my Abattoir doesn't do probing which is how you get the MM measurement of fat I believe? Bit of a shame but there u go maybe I can ask my butcher to do it??
My first ever half a pig goes to a friend of mine today very exciting!! 

[hughesy]

Why do you need the abattoir to tell you the fat covering? Can't you just look?

[Tamsaddle]

You can't look till you collect the carcasses, which for us is 4 days after the kill, and I am much too impatient to wait till then.   Over the years, I have found it very useful getting a consistent abattoir fat measurement for comparing different pigs, different ages, different diets, different pre-slaughter tape measurements, different slaughter dates.   But if the abattoir doesn't do it routinely it's no big deal.