Yesterday I literally "brought home the bacon". Pork Chop's pork chops were ready for pick up at the local butcher. She ended up yielding 221 lbs of pork. Wow! We had no idea she was so big. Pig's are supposed to dress out at 80% of their live weight, so if that holds true then she weighed 275 lbs.
We ate some of the sausage this morning for breakfast and it was excellent. I could slaughter a pig if I had to, but it's kind of nice to be able to drop her off and get the meat back in nice clean little paper packages.
We still have to wait another 3 weeks for the hams and bacon because they have to cure. That's another 56 lbs of meat waiting. It's a good thing we bought that freezer. I think we could fit a cow and a pig in there, but not much more.
One funny thing is that they gave us the back bone. I'm not sure why. If there's any meat on it we can boil it and use the meat for soup. Then the dogs can have a treat.
This morning we had fresh eggs from our own chickens and pork from our own pig. The only thing that was missing was milk from our own cow and fresh wheat bread ground from fresh wheat and made by hand. That's coming soon.
Here's the break down on the costs of raising a pig:
$40 - purchase price
$77 - feed costs
$152 - processing costs
Total - $269
Price divided by lbs of meat = $1.21 per lb
Not bad
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