Ham and Bacon

Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 11:03 AM

These are our two new pigs.  I took the kids to "the pig man", as we like to call him, and let them pick out which ones they wanted.  They only cost $25 each!  Pork Chop, our last pig, was $40 because she was a bit older.  They are both girls and are 6 weeks old.

The white one (a Yorkshire) is named Bacon.

This brown and black-spotted one (a Duroc/Berkshire cross) is named Ham.

We kept them in the dog carrier in my shop overnight because we had a cold front blow in last night, and I didn't want to take the chance that they'd get sick or die.  We bought two this year because they grow better if there's more than one and my in-laws have offered to buy some of the meat from us.  In about 3.5 to 5 months, we'll take them to the butcher.

Mmmm......homegrown bacon and sausage.  Good stuff.

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Posted by kdbspace on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 4:54 PM - Link

Cute pigs! Very fitting names too! That's the next animal we want to get, it makes me hungry! Kim

Correction

Posted by Regina on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 11:54 PM - Link

Your animal count is wrong, DH. There are 51 chickens. I heard some hens chatting and they're pretty ticked that you don't know them all by name. They may ambush you some day.

And you didn't count the cats, dogs, fish, gerbil, or caterpillars. What's up with that?