After the initial killing, hanging and gutting, butchering a hog involves making the primal cuts. Something we found very helpful was to have a cut chart handy. Even if you’ve butchered before, it helps to have a diagram available to guide your cuts. The one here is from the Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin “Butchering Livestock [...]
The first step in butchering a pig is the kill. But when your homestead has the quality of hobby farm, and the line between farm animal and pet is often blurry, the kill is a difficult thing. When you raise your own animals for meat, you truly understand and appreciate the sacrifice of life that [...]
Our homesteading adventure continued this summer and fall with a new baby, a good tomato harvest, a fattened pig, home butchering and sausage making, new day-old chicks, and a brand new hen house. I’ll blog about each of these aspects in much more detail in the coming weeks, but here’s an in-a-nutshell update about us [...]
