200 lbs of goodness

Yesterday was the day I've been waiting for for the past 4 weeks!  If anyone has been following this blog, we took our 2 pigs in to get butchered about four weeks ago.  Our pork was finally done and we went to pick up our meat!  Over 200 lbs of pork!

This is what 200 + lbs of pork looks like (plus one more big bag not shown in this picture)

There are bacon, and ham, pork chops, sausages, shoulder steaks etc.  It's kind of awesome to be able to see the harvest of your hard work.  All the hard work of feeding them twice a day, running after and catching them after they escaped, all of that hard work finally paid off!  And the best part is that we know what we were feeding our pigs and there was no hormone or junk in our meat!

This is our pork meat inventory

This is what I'm having for breakfast this morning:

Yum

Adios, amigos!

The day has finally come.  The moment we have all been waiting for.  Yes, the pigs got sent to the butcher yesterday!  2 little piggies went to the market, and one little piggy stayed home.  We took the 2 castrated pigs to the "chop shop" and it wasn't easy.  It took awhile to get the two pigs to finally get on the trailer.  But finally with the help of food, of course, we were able to get them loaded up and go on our little road trip.  I can't wait to get the meat back in about 3-4 weeks.  Thank you, pigs for your noble sacrifice so me and my family can have bacon, pork chop, ground pork etc for the next year or so.  To you, noble pigs, I salute you!

I've never seen pigs so eager to go to the butcher shop!

Our attempt to get them in the trailer

Getting ready for our road trip