tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771934.post7013907841503609699..comments2024-02-22T22:16:29.435-05:00Comments on Bethune Catholic: More pig stories and other newsJim Curleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225590468579353857noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771934.post-56950218821778478112008-09-06T11:17:00.000-05:002008-09-06T11:17:00.000-05:00Jim-We worried about this, but as it turns out, ou...Jim-We worried about this, but as it turns out, ours was the only hog he did that day, so we know we got ours. <BR/><BR/>Hopefully we will do the rest ourselves, but I will certainly keep it in mind the next time I go to a butcher.<BR/><BR/>We use grain mostly. Our farmer neighbor let us go through his corn field when he had finished harvest and he brings by all his extra or over-ripe watermelon. I am trying to rotate pens so they have grass to eat-but that is only a supplement-mostly they get grain (no hormone). <BR/><BR/>We have been pleased so far. Next slaughter will be end of September/early October I think. <BR/><BR/>Thanks.Jim Curleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02225590468579353857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771934.post-69912055915360083122008-09-06T09:27:00.000-05:002008-09-06T09:27:00.000-05:00If you do not trust your abitoir.I would always pl...If you do not trust your abitoir.<BR/><BR/>I would always place my "Mark" on the slaughtered hog after it has been halved or quartered. <BR/><BR/>Before my brother and I started working at a slaughter house in my Jr. High days, we would take or cattle to the local house, which we did nto trust too much. Ie... one side of beef looks like any other, but does not taste as good as yours. (mom and dad had recieved beef that we did not bring to the house. They had sold our beef to a local steak house we found out later as Gormet top quality).<BR/><BR/>We grain fed our beef so that we would have the most tender sides of beef on the table. <BR/><BR/>I know that many feel that grain feeding is not natural. This is not true. In the old testament they would "Fatten" caves for sacrifice and for the prodigial son as well. Fattening is Grain feeding. Needless to say they did not use homones back then, but my family did not use BGH either.<BR/><BR/>The crux of the issue is that you want to get the pig / Steer / Goat that you brought in the door. You can come up with a cut that is your "Mark" and I suggest it if you have a lack of trust in the house you are using. We always did this as a security measure.<BR/><BR/>Jim DorchakAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com