Three Pigs Off To The Butcher

[JohnyMac]

My neighbor and my pig were supposed to be slaughtered and butchered mid last week. Well the snow and no electricity moved the date to 0630 hrs. today. Our butcher will not slaughter pigs so we have to bring them dead and drained of blood.

The butcher did not get power back till Friday and they had two pigs hanging in the now generator cooled walk-in plus they had two buffalos out in a corral ready to be slaughtered and then butchered. The lady who takes your "cut-sheet" told us that they had worked 14-hour days Friday and Saturday to try and get caught up.

For you folks that care, I used a suppressed AR pistol with sub-sonic soft points. Two dropped quickly being shot between the ear and eye. On one, I must have been off a hair who ran off when hit and was finished with a .308 Win round from my neighbors rife.

We have started looking for 3-4 pigs for the fall butchering process. I have found a butcher closer who will put the pigs down and butcher them rather than old Hawkeye here doing the deed.

The pic is attached rather than imbedded if you can't stomach 3-dead pigs with throats slit sitting in the bed of my truck.   

[grizz]

About 30 years ago I was shocked to learn how well a .22 rimfire dropped a pig in its tracks when sent through the ear or into the eye. Save the .223

[Jackalope]

I always used a sledge hammer, saved on ammo.

[pkveazey]

When I was a kid and living down on the farm, we would go to the Slaughterhouse in town. They auctioned off farm animals and they also had an indoor Slaughterhouse. I remember the way they slaughtered the animals and it grossed me out. As the cattle would come through the door, there was a fellow there with a large lead pipe and he would hit the cows right between their eyes and when they fell to their knees he would cut their throat and then hoist them up to be butchered. Then I watched them slaughter Hogs. That was really gross. They bound their hind legs together and hoisted them up and cut their throats and they bled out from being upside down. Then while they were still squealing they lowered them into boiling water to remove the hair. Then they butchered them. The butchering didn't bother me at all. I don't think that watching the process would not be a good form of entertainment.

[Nemo]

My sisters husband worked at a slaughter house place for a few weeks, about 35 years ago.  He will eat little meat now. 

Nemo

[Sir John Honeybucket]

Johnymac said: "My neighbor and my pig were supposed to be slaughtered and butchered mid last week."

Slaughtering livestock is normal, but what did your NEIGHBOR do that warrants such treatment?


Sir John Honeybucket

[pkveazey]

Johnymac said: "My neighbor and my pig were supposed to be slaughtered and butchered mid last week."

Slaughtering livestock is normal, but what did your NEIGHBOR do that warrants such treatment?


Sir John Honeybucket

Bwahahaha... I caught that one also but I just bit my tongue and didn't say anything about it. Don't worry, Johnny has a sense of humor and when he reads what he wrote he'll think its funny also.

[JohnyMac]

WTF  but what did your NEIGHBOR do that warrants such treatment? 

The only thing I can say as I was tired when I wrote that. Words/grammar has meanings. 

[Nemo]

My neighbor and my pig were supposed to be slaughtered and butchered mid last week.

Remember, Soylent Green is People.

Nemo