So You Want to Raise Pigs

Righteous Bacon Blog ^ | March 21, 2013 | by Diana

[barmag25]

For folks interested. Some good tips. I posted the whole blog post.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t want to raise pigs.

I want to eat pigs.

That is all.

[tumblindice]

Hear hear! I just want the plastic package that bacon comes in made easier to open. It really hurts my teeth ...

[cripplecreek]

The plastic is a lot easier on the teeth than the package a whole pig comes in.

[barmag25]

ping

[tumblindice]

They come runnin’ just as fast as they can,
‘cause every girl’s crazy ‘bout a sharp dressed hog

[Mark17]

My wife raises pigs too. There is money to be made in it.

[ConorMacNessa]

Mmmmmmmmm!

Years ago we had pigs on my Dad's farm - he was a hobby farmer after retiring as a Professor at Johns Hopkins. We named the little darlings Chardonnay and Cabernet, and wow did they taste great!

Nothing like a pig roast - Dad built a good, if somewhat basic pit. Our Oriental friends - his techs and students from Taiwan - were right at home. I can't recall eating better pork in my life.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[cripplecreek]

Pink Floyd - Pigs

[Veggie Todd]

Substitute the word “husband” for “pig” in this article, and my wife will agree with it 100%.

[tumblindice]

I see we got booted to Chat.
Who squealed?

[Oratam]

b4l

[barmag25]

We started raising pigs a couple years ago. It was a bit of an investment up front. Fencing, lumber for shelter, and time but it is nice to know I have about 130 lbs of pork in the back yard. Prices at the grocery store are getting rediculous.

[TEXOKIE]

In addition to the information contained in your post, I would think that raising pigs would have the additional benefit of rendering your property unattractive to the MooseLimbs in our midst.

[yarddog]

It is a very vague memory as we moved from the farm when I was only four but I do remember us raising and processing pigs.

Daddy would shoot them right between the eyes with a Remington model 513. He used shorts because he didn’t want to mess up the hogs head cheese ingredients.

I remember scalding them in a huge iron pot and then the hair just came right off. Watching them butchering the pig was interesting if a little gory. I remember Mother washing out the intestines for chitlins and sausage.

The most pleasant part was when I would open the door to the smoke house and the aroma was just great. Hams hanging, loops of sausage also hanging. Cloth bags holding other parts. Sides of bacon etc. We did not have electricity out in the country and that was probably the only way to preserve the meat.

[eldoradude]

Neighbor two houses down raised pigs one summer. Absolutely delicious...although their daughter was a little upset at first when she found out where the pork chops came from - she came around when the bacon was served. :D

[tumblindice]

Remember the scene in The Wizard of Oz (on Auntie Em’s farm, before the Technicolor kicks in) where Dorothy is messing around the hog pen, loses her balance and falls in?

Recall that farmhand Bert Lehr/the ‘Cowardly Lion’ saves her, but after setting her down, starts sweating bullets.

I asked my parents why he was ‘vapor-locking’ and Mom, a farm girl, said, “Because feeding hogs will bite.”

So the way I see it, it’s eat or be eaten. Sorry Arnold!

[ConorMacNessa]

Indeed! My vignette goes back more than thirty years - even then price was a substantial factor, but the taste was what won me over.

We also raised beef - the meat was just delectable!

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[spokeshave]

Woolly pigs

Mangalitsa is a breed of pig grown especially in Hungary and the Balkans known also as a curly-hair hog. It belongs to European unimproved lard-type breeds (as well as Iberian Black, Sicilian Black, and Alentejana pigs) that are descended directly from wild boar populations.

For chefs, the once-rare pig also happens to be one of the most sought-after breeds in the world. Now Winkler Wooly Pigs (winklerwoolypigs.com) has one of the largest operations in the United States

[tumblindice]

‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’ was a pig.

Fuzzy Wuzzy wore a wig.

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t really fuzzy,
Was he?