Winter is hog killing time around here. I hadn't planed on putting this fellow in the the freezer. I bought him and eight others to sell. The other pigs would bully and harass him, and only let him eat what they didn't want. He was the largest when I got them, but had barely put on any weight over five months. One day I heard screaming from the barn. I went to check and the seven had him down killing him. They were biting him and ramming his sides with there snouts. I beat the others off and got him separated. He couldn't stand on two legs, and looked pretty rough. I decided to cull him since the slaughter house wouldn't take him, and he was two skinny to sell. I called my good friend 
Neither of us had ever butchered a pig, but we did this one from scalding to vacuum sealing. We let the carcass sit in an ice bath to get the temperature down and butchered the next day. We both ended up with over 50 pounds of meat in the freezer. It was the leanest pork I had ever seen. He barely had any fat on him.
