Thread: Rising prices

Originally Posted by Ketchn

to those that have the the you know what's big enough to play with them that way I tip my hat

I forgot to add in while half awake this morning. This is the fella that started the Boy Scouts. I remember Colonel Jeff Copper had a right up in the back of one of the gun magazines

those yearling piggies are good eating but in summer as you said you got to get them butchered and on ice quickly. time to call your folks up and put one in the ground and have a party.

Originally Posted by hdhntr

those yearling piggies are good eating but in summer as you said you got to get them butchered and on ice quickly. time to call your folks up and put one in the ground and have a party.

best run to them when they hit the ground and work fast with the knife , we may try tomorrow ,but lately i am busy as fire all the time

Folks around here trap them and feed them on corn for a bit and then butcher them

Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

Folks around here trap them and feed them on corn for a bit and then butcher them

a few do that here as well , hear tell they eat like a domestic when done that way , had a fella at a tire shop in the country shoot the breeze with me one afternoon , tells me his friend brought him a baby piggy he caught by hand late in deer season , it was late spring when he said you want to see her ?
been feeding her corn for about 6 months and she is in a pen behind the tire shop .
said sure and when he called her out of her hutch ,she came out tail waggin and friendly as heck right up to us , bet she was ALREADY in the 125 lb range too !
said come fall she was going to the butcher

What is around here are just feral, domestic stock that has been wild for generations. Caught as a piglet it shouldn't have any reason not to be tame. They do grow quickly.

Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

What is around here are just feral, domestic stock that has been wild for generations. Caught as a piglet it shouldn't have any reason not to be tame. They do grow quickly.

some of ours have definite Russian genetics in them , they get that really long head and snout and a big mohawk back hair on them ,but others often look like they escaped farmer joes pig pen as well ...

Farmer Joe's pigs are how they looked in the River deltas in south Alabama. First time I went hog hunting they hollered shoot to which I replied that's Somebody's pig. Back then a youngin would have toted a blistered butt for shooting a farmers pig