Pot -Bellied Pig- uses for it

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Okay all you country folk, What does one DO with a pot-bellied pig? A friend of mine has a male, and wants to "give" it to me. What would I do with it? Is it useful on the farm or to my homestead in ANY way. I will be anxious to hear from you all. Karole

-- Karole (Biz3boymom@aol.com), October 26, 2001

Answers

most pot bellied pigs have alot of fat on the meat, so its recommmended, (by some) for sausage only. Frankly,,I cant think of any other uses for them

-- stan (sopal@net-port.com), October 26, 2001.

i have eaten a number of freby pot belly pigs and yes most are too fat but just trim the fat and use it for mixing into venison for sausageor use the fat for dog food /chichen food....oh and some of them do make good pets if you can aford non working pets.you can breed them and butcher out the pigs the small size makes whole roast pigs easy oh and by the way boar meat is realy only usable as sausage mixed with other meats and spices and trim the fat well from an intact boar

-- george darby (windwillow@fuse.net), October 26, 2001.

They don't have the taste of pork, are kind of bland, I would pass it up.

-- bruce (rural@inebraska.com), October 26, 2001.

I used one in a portable pen to clear a section of my side yard then butchered him to make sausage. He was okay, but there was a lot more fat there than I could think up uses for at the time.

-- Sheryl in Me (radams@sacoriver.net), October 26, 2001.

After using him for a rototiller, throw him in the meat grinder with a goat and good sausage spices for burrito meat.

-- Just Duckie (Duck@spazmail.com), October 26, 2001.


Use it to hunt mushrooms.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair67@yahoo.com), October 27, 2001.

They don't make very good pets or meat! Even with all that fat the lard is of poor quality. It is cheaper to raise a good pig than a poor one.

-- Mark in N.C. Fla. (deadgoatman@webtv.net), October 27, 2001.

Well my pair of 'lardy' pets provide manure, exerecise for kids [ie.'chase those pigs out of the...], but first and foremost they have guarded my saturdays twice now from religious witnessing groups! A large 4 door sedan drives [too fast!] up my gravel road, honks,& honks again. i come out to the porch, to see what's burning. 4 guys in suits start getting out, ginger pig trots up sorting & chomping happily 'cause friends visiting usually give him treats. well 3 suits hop back in the car one backs up asking "does the pig bite?" Busy, mean, mean, person that i am i say "why no he does not bite!' they relax & start coming out of the car again. I continue with " see those tusks? pigs do this slashing -cutting motion with them they don't really bite until they are eating" car doors slam, a hand waves bye & they kick up a ton of dust again. I had saturdays to myself for quite a spell. LOL!

-- bj pepper in C. MS. (pepper.pepper@excite.com), October 27, 2001.

Those SE Asian pigs evolved around a really low-grain wet-food jungle diet. To keep them lean enough to eat they need to be fed pretty much just greens and some fruit.. very efficient little metabolisms there! Kind of the Boer goats of the pig world. So.. you might want to pen one and just feed it hay and the vegetable kitchen and garden scraps. A nice lean potbelly is a treat to eat halved and grilled.

-- Ellen (gardenfarm@earthlink.net), October 28, 2001.

We fed ours eggs, milk and kitchen scraps. Tender and yummy, not fat or gristly. Keep in mind they are only supposed to be 100-125 lbs. full grown. Tana

-- Tana Cothran (tana@getgoin.net), October 29, 2001.


raised hundreds and find them great table fare. just don't feed them too much corn orthey will be fat as a PIG

-- bill dayhoff (billeday@hotmail.com), November 02, 2001.

After reading all this, I have come to the conclusion that a properly fed (not fat) pot-bellied pig might actually be a good homestead hog. One of the reasons I don't like normal pigs is because they get so big at full maturity. The smaller size of the pot-bellies would make them a lot easier to manage.

-- Kathleen Sanderson (stonycft@worldpath.net), November 02, 2001.

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