Tempting porker?

Question

ok girls most of you will mock me with this question so if u don't have a sincere answer plz don't answer!

four of us girls are planning to slaughter a pig for pork. It is of a small-medium size but has just grown pretty fat instead of large.

We do not want to sell it and with all respect to all animals, but are very much tempted looking at its fat thighs which i'm sure will yield lots of pork.

Does this make us look like bad women or not "lady like" if we go ahead with it and what are your views on this?

Answer 1

have you ever killed a pig before .I would not attempt to unless you have some experience or have some one with experience to help you.we use a local butcher that charges a modest fee to kill,dress and prepare the pork into sausages,cuts and roast etc.some abattoirs may do the same.It would be a pity if you where to do a balls up of it and the pig suffered needlessly

Answer 2

We raise meat goats, and meat rabbits on our permaculture farm, and have for years.  I see animals butchered on our farm nearly every week.  Sometimes only one, sometimes twenty.

My husband and I butcher most of our own meat for our own table.  

My question to you is, "Why do you care what the opinion of other peope is, about butchering your pig?"  If you have raised your pig humanely, and ethically, you have nothing to be ashamed of.  

If you have never butchered an animal before, have a professional butcher slaughter you pig, and cut and wrap the meat for you.  Also remember pigs are NOT a magical animal.  You do no take off a hind leg of the pig and auctomatically have something that tastes like a ham.  Nor would the baccon taste like baccon.  The products need to be cured to have the tastes you are problably use to.

Have a professional slaughter your pig, so its death is as fast and painless as possible.

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Answer 3

Are you going to scrape or skin it.Depending on size you probably need to wait till winter.In the summer heat it could spoil before you are through.Oh and the hind leg is a ham and must be cured differently than the back.The belly is also cured differently.If its a small pig(ie <100 lbs dressed 200 whole.)Why not cook it whole then cut it up and freeze it (much simpler).

Answer 4

I raise cattle and whenever people ask me how I can send them off to get butchered I reply (with a very serious, straight face) "Do you eat hamburgers?" They almost always sheepishly say yes. And I say that is exactly how I can send them off- I like to eat! So why exactly would it be not lady like...girls got to eat too! I would recommend sending the hog to a butcher though, so nothing is wasted and it's done humanely (not saying that you wouldn't kill it nicely  :)  Hope he tastes good!

Answer 5

Well for anyone who isn't a vegetarian, someone's got to kill pigs before you get to eat it... I don't see what the big deal is. These days, consumers are way too sheltered!

Answer 6

it's your pig and you have the right to determine it's fate. i must say that in my younger days i butchered many a porker and ate till i was full. i see no problem in you butchering your pig.