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frustratedearthmother
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Been over a week since I posted on Craigslist and NOT ONE response on the piggies! UGH! Hope it's not like that selling goats t his year or DH and I are gonna be eating a lot of goat and pig, lol. Not that that's a bad thing of course. Just means we will definitely get a lot of practice butchering.
I called the packing house the other day to see about having the boars done - just because the neighbor is so stinking busy. It's a $40 kill fee and 65cents a lb hanging weight to process. I can even bring them in dead and skip the $40 kill fee - BUT - if dead they have to be gutted and skinned. Uhhhh... it's worth $40 to me to have somebody else do the gutting and skinning! Biggest issue is that I don't have a working trailer right now. I could probably construct a pen for the back of my truck and load it with the tractor - but how to get them out of it and to the ground once we reach the butcher? Geeze! I need another trailer. The one I have - that needs a lot of work - is my old show trailer and it's only 10ft long anyway. Saw a nice prospect on Craigslist Friday evening. Saturday morning I was about to respond to the posting and it was already gone. GRRRRR! I don't want to buy a new trailer - but every decent used prospect is a couple hours away and is sold before I can even respond to the ad. Better keep looking I guess.
Should be having kids pretty soon! I think the first gals are due sometime in the first week or so of March.... maybe the 6th or is it the 8th? Guess I better check my calendar, lol. Don't want any of them dropped in a mud puddle out in the pasture. Please God, let it be a doe year!
I called the packing house the other day to see about having the boars done - just because the neighbor is so stinking busy. It's a $40 kill fee and 65cents a lb hanging weight to process. I can even bring them in dead and skip the $40 kill fee - BUT - if dead they have to be gutted and skinned. Uhhhh... it's worth $40 to me to have somebody else do the gutting and skinning! Biggest issue is that I don't have a working trailer right now. I could probably construct a pen for the back of my truck and load it with the tractor - but how to get them out of it and to the ground once we reach the butcher? Geeze! I need another trailer. The one I have - that needs a lot of work - is my old show trailer and it's only 10ft long anyway. Saw a nice prospect on Craigslist Friday evening. Saturday morning I was about to respond to the posting and it was already gone. GRRRRR! I don't want to buy a new trailer - but every decent used prospect is a couple hours away and is sold before I can even respond to the ad. Better keep looking I guess.
Should be having kids pretty soon! I think the first gals are due sometime in the first week or so of March.... maybe the 6th or is it the 8th? Guess I better check my calendar, lol. Don't want any of them dropped in a mud puddle out in the pasture. Please God, let it be a doe year!
