Nikki and I pulled, pushed, shoved, wrestled and otherwise over-exerted ourselves, but we managed to get both hogs in the back of the truck this morning and I got them to Kewaskum Frozen Foods without incident.
We did really well with these piggies. My target was to get them to 220-240lbs in 6 months and we succeeded. Breakfast weighed in at 253 lbs and Lunch was 218 lbs when they were weighed this morning. They didn't seem to mind taking a ride in the back of a pickup, they were calm the whole way.
We'll be picking up the pork on October 18th, so we'll try to get everyone's orders to them on the 19th and 20th. Thanks to everyone that ordered pasture-raised pork from us, we really appreciate your business. Those that didn't get a chance to order this year, we'll probably have 3 pigs next year, so please keep us in mind.
5 comments:
How does it feel to be "empty nesters?"
It hasn't really sunk in yet, I think. One benefit of the pigs being so much work to get loaded is that we didn't have any time to get teary-eyed over them.
I can make 250 lb.pigs out of paper mache. I tend to get a little teary eyed over them, though.
What was the final specialty products order? (i.e., type/ varieties of sausage)?
Our choices were brats, smoked sausage, breakfast links, pork patties, or ground pork. If you don't want braunschweiger or any meat from the head they credit you that weight and charge less for the sausage making.
I ended up ordering each pig separately by halves so that the folks that ordered from us would get everything they wanted. It worked out okay, but I don't know if we will sell pig by the 1/4 next year. It was a big headache to make sure everyone got what they wanted and what they had coming.
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