It turns out that a friend of ours knows a nice Amish guy who
raises pigs. So rather than raising a pig ourselves, we decided it would be a much better idea to get
one from him, and just pick it up and drop it off at the butcher. I am so very
glad we did that rather than getting all sorts of stuff set up to raise one
pig. And then actually having to raise the pig. The picking up was
pretty easy – that sucker just hopped up into the trailer and off we went,
which was great as he weighed about 280 pounds.
The fun started when we dropped him off at the butcher’s
place. They have a nifty little chute and stall setup where you can unload
critters, and they let you drop off
critters outside of their normal working hours, no pressure there... This was one of those times
where it’s really handy that Sis not only knows how to handle animals, but
can back a semi-trailer into a tin can. I am really good at letting her
back trailers. After getting the trailer to the chute, she got the door
opened and went in to get the pig out. It took a sharp smack on his nose
(after about 10 minutes of pushing, and being pushed, around the trailer),
resulting in him squealing like, well….anyway he complained a lot about that
indignity, then he trotted off the trailer.
This little video is the soon to be BBQ complaining to the
pig in the pen next to him after he was unloaded. The noises he’s making
here are nothing compared to the massive amounts of very loud squealing he was
doing in the trailer. Honest – if I had not been holding a panel of wood to
keep him from jumping off the trailer and running off into the great unknown (about
all I was qualified to do) I would have shot a video of him insisting on
staying in the trailer and screaming loud enough to make you think he’d got
something valuable pinched in a door. (That, and I was really too busy laughing
at him to be able to get a good shot.)
One of the most enjoyable things about having farm animals
are the noises they make. One of these days I’ll try to get some good video of
a screaming goat…
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