A whole old sow , not real fat . Still made over two hundred #

old girl had a lot of meat on her. are you going to make any of that head cheese and souse you were talking about?

When I was in school a farmer let me use an old small granary for skinning. He told me to just throw the Muskrat carcasses to the sow in the pen by the barn. After a couple weeks I pulled traps to go home for Thanksgiving. When I got back the sow was gone. He said he had to shoot her. Turns out the mail man drove an old blue Impala like mine and when he'd pull in to drop the mail the sow would go nuts and destroy everything because the mail man didn't have any rat carcasses for her! LMAO

I doubt I get to that . I didnt scald the pig , and what little I've played with scalding portions of the skin are way more laboir intensive than scalding at time of slaughter . Ive been making some bone broth to consume when im healing up from my hip replacement. Dealing with the gel got me thinking of head cheese I think I could make some descent head cheese with the bone broth . But without the skin , ears,cheeks and snout it wouldn't be as good .

I realy didnt have time for this project , but the old girl was systematically destroying my fences and Barn .
She was getting a bullet whether she got processed or not . She destroyed a corral fence made of livestock panels and renforced with oak 2x6s then my wife locked her in a stall in barn . she pushed the oak boards off the side of stall devider , broke the hinges on a steel gate . Then she systematically went down a livestock panel fence and pushed on it until she got a post to lift out . This all in a couple days .