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Yesterday's pig, a sow which cleaned out to about 56 pounds of meat, was trapped forty feet from a house in a small neighborhood of houses. That's the fifth pig taken from that yard this year. Lots of fat on the pigs now, they've been eating avocados, guavas and java plum lately. I'm rendering down about a gallon of lard out of this pig, sometimes there won't be any lard at all. With all these feral pigs running about we not only eat well, but our neighbors do too.
This particular pig was cut into two big rump roasts, a bucket of ground pork for sausage, a gallon in brine for bacon, two slabs of ribs, two crown roasts (might cut them into chops later but I was tired of cutting up pig) and about five gallons of bones simmering for broth. The dogs will eventually get the bones. The hide is salted to be tacked out to be made into raw hide. If we get another pig within the next several days, it will probably all be made into Kalua pig since that is an easy way to use up a lot of pork.
It was trapped early in the morning, too, although this one wasn't making a lot of noise and waking people up.
"I like yard sales," he said. "All true survivalists like yard sales."
Kurt Wilson