PORK

[The Old Man]

  About 2.5 weeks ago a fellow called my nephew wanting him to come kill a hog for him. It had been coming around his house and barn rooting for a month or more, well the nephew called me, I asked when it was usually coming, so happens the man with the hog lives by the nephew's mom and he was over there feeding cattle, he said I'll go ask him.
  In a few minutes he called back saying it was there now and he'd scared it in an old dog pen, and for me to hurry as he didn't know if it would stay in there. When I got there I was surprised to see a super quality white sow weighing about 300 lbs. she wasn't real wild so I pitched a rope on her and we loaded her. Next morning was a Thursday and I called the slaughter house to make her an appointment he said I could get her in Sunday. 
  He called back this Monday wanting to know if I had any more like her as she was a very good hog and he could sell a couple more like her, I laughed and told him she came out of the woods.  Someone over in that area had lost her and oddly instead of her hanging around home where she came from had left and was cleaning up feed around his bull pens and rooting around this mans yard.

[t-dog]

That’s funny. I bet she was in real good shape. She’ll probably be like eating the old range raised hogs.


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[NLAhunter]

Boy Mr clue you can't beat that with a stick I know she will eat good

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[The Old Man]

I'm anxious to try it out, the butcher had her hung and was seeing the carcass when he called wanting another one.   The fellow whose place I got her from didn't know of anyone missing a hog, she looked to me to be out of a bluebut sow and chester boar.

[make-em-squeel]

got to love it

[The Old Man]

  Update on the sow, she hung 272 lbs.   We've had cured pork chops and sausage so far and it was real good.  A long many years ago I bought a big sow, bigger than this one that didn't breed back with the rest of his sows, from a friend of mine and butchered her it was the best pork I ever butchered. Prior that I'd always butchered a typical "killer hog". So don't be afraid to buy and "feed until she's fit" a big sow, as long as she's fairly young.