Animal Auction

So Rosie and I attended our first animal auction the other day, it was.....Well interesting.

There where a number of rude people who seemed to think that coming into the auction 20 min late means that you get to stand in the view of people who arrived on time. I mean REALLY? Who does that?

The animals where interesting and while we did not see anything we felt the need to bid on the prices that animals went for was very reasonable. We talked a little about teaching a class at a latter date "Swine to Sausage, how to slaughter and part out your pig" and getting a pig at the auction and finishing it off at home would be far more realistic than raising it up our selves for a class. Also if people where interested in spit roasting a whole pig, the auction is the way to go.

One interesting thing that we realized is the actual weight of our pigs. We saw some bigger pigs that weighed in at around 650 lbs. and they where quite a bit smaller than Oreo. SO the pig I have been referring to as a 500 pound pig is more like a 700 pound to 800 pound pig. Really, he is THAT big. So our small pig Digger is about 250-300 pounds Macaroon is about 250-300 pounds and Oreo is about 700 pounds. Yup that's right we have about 1200 pounds of pork in the yard. Bacon any one?