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[CapricornFarm]

Don't die your pretty kitty will eat your body.

No, hubby would get him a new home the minute i was cold. He is not a fan of Kiss.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

No, hubby would get him a new home the minute i was cold. He is not a fan of Kiss.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Don't die your pretty kitty will eat your body.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Did you know it is fun being married to a smart

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A couple days ago a lady agreed to a price for 11 fifty+ pound pigs. DH left work early to be home on time.
Instead of them showing up, she called and said her husband said it is a 3 hour drive and he would only come if we sold them for $25 each to compensate their time/fuel.
LET'S SEE... hmmmmm.
Our time and money raising them is irrelevant?

DH lost a half days pay coming home early?
Anyway, DH snapped at her for deceiving him. Said thanks for making his pay check smaller and then spammed her with about 10 pictures of all the hams and ribs we smoke. With a message saying.. thanks for filling my freezers since you took grocery money off my employment pay check.

LOL!!!! I need to write a book on our craigslist adventures.. If it was made into a movie, it would be nothing but a situation comedy.

 

[kwhites634]

Did you know it is fun being married to a smartView attachment 1247074 ?

A couple days ago a lady agreed to a price for 11 fifty+ pound pigs. DH left work early to be home on time.
Instead of them showing up, she called and said her husband said it is a 3 hour drive and he would only come if we sold them for $25 each to compensate their time/fuel.
LET'S SEE... hmmmmm.
Our time and money raising them is irrelevant?View attachment 1247091
DH lost a half days pay coming home early?
Anyway, DH snapped at her for deceiving him. Said thanks for making his pay check smaller and then spammed her with about 10 pictures of all the hams and ribs we smoke. With a message saying.. thanks for filling my freezers since you took grocery money off my employment pay check.
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LOL!!!! I need to write a book on our craigslist adventures.. If it was made into a movie, it would be nothing but a situation comedy.
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You need to develop a higher class of clientele, I'm afraid. Not easy, I know.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

You need to develop a higher class of clientele, I'm afraid. Not easy, I know.

It's hit and miss.. Our market here is flooded. That drove the prices down. Most feed - truck loads of stale discount bread and rubbish to their stock. We premium feed because we eat everything nobody buys.

There is a reason why pigs are sonogram-ed for back fat at the 4H/FFA shows-Auctions.. Because nutrition = meat.. not lard.
When we did show pigs they rub KY jelly on the back of your pig. just like with human pregnancies, but measure the fat. IF YOU PASS, you are allowed into the complex. If you fail, you are directed thru a different shute right back to your trailer. Then you can list your fatty lard trash fed pig on craigslist for 30 buck..lol

The majority of our buyers are quality conscience people who look around before they buy. Like buying a car. You don't buy the first thing you see. If you look around at most of the stock in our area, sinking stomachs, hips exposed, a 3 year old pig that on weighs 150# but they tell you it is 7 months old.
We are secrete shoppers. We go around looking at pigs for sale, but not to buy. Just to see these so called deals. We are sneeky

 

[Bantambird]

It's hit and miss.. Our market here is flooded. That drove the prices down. Most feed - truck loads of stale discount bread and rubbish to their stock. We premium feed because we eat everything nobody buys.

There is a reason why pigs are sonogram-ed for back fat at the 4H/FFA shows-Auctions.. Because nutrition = meat.. not lard.
When we did show pigs they rub KY jelly on the back of your pig. just like with human pregnancies, but measure the fat. IF YOU PASS, you are allowed into the complex. If you fail, you are directed thru a different shute right back to your trailer. Then you can list your fatty lard trash fed pig on craigslist for 30 buck..lol

The majority of our buyers are quality conscience people who look around before they buy. Like buying a car. You don't buy the first thing you see. If you look around at most of the stock in our area, sinking stomachs, hips exposed, a 3 year old pig that on weighs 150# but they tell you it is 7 months old.
We are secrete shoppers. We go around looking at pigs for sale, but not to buy. Just to see these so called deals. We are sneekyView attachment 1247121

I traded a half a pig for 6 poults I hatched, 100 dollars, plus processing my half a pig. That piggy was delicious and worth it.
Personally, I like high quality lard. I purchase about 20lbs of the abdominal leaf lard a year for pastries, frying, and roasting, among other things, and the butcher shop is more than glad to sell it to me.

 

[Bantambird]

My grandfather had a small dairy, and they always kept pigs to feed the extra skim milk as a big part of the rations. Is this still something done? The lady I traded with got sour milk from her local dairy too.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I traded a half a pig for 6 poults I hatched, 100 dollars, plus processing my half a pig. That piggy was delicious and worth it.
Personally, I like high quality lard. I purchase about 20lbs of the abdominal leaf lard a year for pastries, frying, and roasting, among other things, and the butcher shop is more than glad to sell it to me.

That what we refer "finishing" the pig. The last 4 weeks of growing we will feed carbs like corn and such to balance the meat with fat. Soaked corn and a few beers and fat to my DH too..

 

[shawluvsbirds]

It's hit and miss.. Our market here is flooded. That drove the prices down. Most feed - truck loads of stale discount bread and rubbish to their stock. We premium feed because we eat everything nobody buys.

There is a reason why pigs are sonogram-ed for back fat at the 4H/FFA shows-Auctions.. Because nutrition = meat.. not lard.
When we did show pigs they rub KY jelly on the back of your pig. just like with human pregnancies, but measure the fat. IF YOU PASS, you are allowed into the complex. If you fail, you are directed thru a different shute right back to your trailer. Then you can list your fatty lard trash fed pig on craigslist for 30 buck..lol

The majority of our buyers are quality conscience people who look around before they buy. Like buying a car. You don't buy the first thing you see. If you look around at most of the stock in our area, sinking stomachs, hips exposed, a 3 year old pig that on weighs 150# but they tell you it is 7 months old.
We are secrete shoppers. We go around looking at pigs for sale, but not to buy. Just to see these so called deals. We are sneekyView attachment 1247121

Huh. That's interesting. I never knew they used sonogram to look for pig fat.