"Dan Logcher" > wrote in message
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> Michael wrote:
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> > "Michael" > wrote in message
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> > Let's all
> >
> >>say good bye to Pork Chop and BBQ, two good pigs.
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> >
> > Bought them mid April at about twenty pounds each. Forty dollars for
each
> > one. Six months later Pork Chop was 290 pounds and BBQ was 190 pounds.
> > I'll be picking up about 300 pounds of packaged meat on Saturday.
>
> What's it cost to feed them for six months? So far, I see $80 spent.
> Assuming an average $3/lb for pork, you could realize a $700+ savings
> or profit.

Really don't save much if any money. Feed is about $100 (for both girls)
for the six months + table and garden scraps. Also the fifty bucks worth of
beer they had in the last month (ala Kobe beef). Basically I know EXCACTLY
what went into these girls. The walks to the barn each morning and
afternoon weren't too bad except during the hurricaines when I came back
looking like a drowned rat. Mine is a hobby farm so profit isn't really
necessary but extremely high quality is not only possible but required.
Getting the two girls into the trailer was much more interesting than I
wished. I spent three hours Sunday afternoon trying to do it by myself. My
eighty five year old uncle came over Monday AM, made a few changes (pigs
won't climb a ramp w/ holes..who knew) and had them in the trailer in less
than ten minutes.

Foie gras is something else we produce for our own consumption. There are
only two foie gras farms in the US and strangely the way I learned to
make/force foie gras was from the PETA website. We only make four or five
livers per year (not a real heart friendly product) but very much enjoy
them.

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> > The wife is now walking around calling me heartless.
>
> But she'll eat the meat, right?

Oh yes, she'll eat them up. But...I can put her off it by saying something
like "doesn't BBQ (name of a pig) taste good w/ gravy?". My youngest
daughter has never had a problem with eating our animals but my oldest is
almost a vegan...teenagers, what can I say. The youngest is twelve so all
this will change next year when she becomes the lost group of
people...teenagers.

The eggs from our free range chickens are so good I couldn't change the
family back to grocery store stuff now but eating one of the hens is
difficult for everyone. Makes great chicken and dumplings but knowing it is
one of the hens that runs to meet you in the afternoon while walking the
dog, well I don't think many people could not say a little prayer before
digging in. Hens go into the pot when they stop laying, it's a farm not a
resthome.