| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| NeathChris |
Huge PigHere is a pic of a huge tamworth cross boar i picked up yesterday, he will be going to sally. My mate rang me and asked if i knew anyone who would want a big baconer. He is only 2 and has gowing left aswell. He stand 5 breeze blocks high, no seriouslyHere he is next to a welsh sow. 
And next to a big fert spreader 
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| gil |
He is quite a big boy, isn't he 
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| sally_in_wales |
he's going to be delicious 
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| toggle |
that is a LOT of pig | ||
| NeathChris |
He is bigger than he looks in the photo. He's taller than the ponies next door! | ||
| sally_in_wales |
He's being shared round half the valley the rate we are going, almost everyone we mentioned it to wanted a bit
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| dpack |
he will get smaller once he is air cured 
one big pig
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| dpack |
ps with just the green trailer for scale he would take a bit of beating
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| NeathChris |
He is as tall as a 5 bar gate. | ||
| judith |
Just don't make him cross 
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| NeathChris |
We dropped him off at the abbatoir this morning, seeing him run off the trailer and down the ramp really brought home how big he was, the man at the abbatoir and defra people were shocked at his size! He is only 2 and still had 12 months growing left in him. | ||
| sally_in_wales |
Thing is your pigs are hardly small, if they thought he was exceptionally big its a bit mind boggling 
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| NeathChris |
In the pic he is next to a fully grown welsh sow, ok she is short in the leg but still. | ||
| VSS |
TOY TRAILER!!!
www.viableselfsufficiency.co.uk |
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| sally_in_wales |
Now now, don't tease Chris about his toys Even big strong farming types need time off from muckspreading and running round with a sheep over each shoulder occasionally
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| NeathChris |
Now now the picture was taken on my mates farm. | ||
| k9mike |
pictures dont do him justice saw him when I took 2 to abbatoir he was in a pen that is big and he nearly filled it.I was lost for words | ||
| sally_in_wales |
you're scaring me now, even cut into pieces will we fit him in the car 
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| NeathChris |
Should do, will fill the back seat and the boot mind. Do you want the head? The head is huge. | ||
| k9mike |
ill have the head i can mount it on the grill of my fourtrack as a mascot,keep the police away,keep anyone away for that matter,he scared me | ||
| NeathChris |
I have seen longer and broader pigs, but none as tall as this one! | ||
| LynneA |
A Tamworth cross - what with? Wooly mammoth? | ||
| Rob R |
Wouldn't like to be around if he was cross
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| NeathChris |
Tamworth x Large White i reckon. I wouldnt fancy keeping a pig that big around the place, could be very dangerous. | ||
| Behemoth |
I'm saying nothing. |
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| dpack |
i counted the planks in a double door ,my last half from rob was largeish but that chap is a feed the village pig
who is going to write "brining in a bathtub" |
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| Bog Spavin |
 You could have saddled that up and had a gymkhana!
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| toggle |
pmsl. |
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| NeathChris |
He weighed in at 500lb on the hook. | ||
| alison |
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| k9mike |
they had to skin it as it would not go in machine,skin with fat attached weighed 200 lb | ||
| sally_in_wales |
He was duly collected today, and when Chris opened the boot to swap it into the van we really thought we'd been sent a cow by accident. I have never ever seen hams that big, not even in posh deli's in mediterranean places. I'm a strong girl but I couldnt lift them, had to get a bloke to help 
Gareth has just fairly heroically dismembered him into more manageable chunks, the ribs were nearly 2 foot long, the shoulderblades had ridges of bone I only thought you got on dinosaurs, and as an idea of how much meat we are trying to find freezer space for, the only bit we have weighed so far is the traditional bacony bit and that came in at 80lb
I think we're eating well this summer
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| gil |
Pig in a Day ?
Must (have) be(en) quite a sight.
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| sally_in_wales |
I wish I'd had a camera to hand, the size of the beast was not exaggerated in earlier postings. We've only tried a little panfried slice of the fillet so far, but that was stunning. Fab flavour, looking forward to tasting him properly tomorrow whan I'm not so shattered. | ||
| dpack |
ace stuff ,he looked big | ||
| NeathChris |
Let me know how he tastes sally, i honestly thiught it was a side of beef hanging in the cold room! | ||
| Rob R |
How much did the hams weigh? (even roughly) | ||
| sally_in_wales |
Well, I couldnt lift them out of the van alone, and I can heft a big sack of spuds without any real trouble. |