Justin SE IOWA
Member
I just got 2 pigs that I'm gonna butcher. They are about 30 to 40 lbs I'm guessing. They are both barrows. Do they need castrated so the meat tastes good or will it matter?
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notjustair
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Yes! Do it tomorrow! It only makes it harder the longer you
wait. Not to mention the healing time is better because you will
only have a small cut. I farrow to finish and castrate on day
two or three. Day five is the latest. By then they are already
too mobile for my old hands! My butcher won't cut up a boar.
They don't want the meat in the building.
wait. Not to mention the healing time is better because you will
only have a small cut. I farrow to finish and castrate on day
two or three. Day five is the latest. By then they are already
too mobile for my old hands! My butcher won't cut up a boar.
They don't want the meat in the building.
flying belgian
Well-known Member
OK, I caught it right away. It's like if a plane
crashes on the Canada-US border line where will the
survivors be buried? Canada or US.? -------A barrow
is already castrated.
crashes on the Canada-US border line where will the
survivors be buried? Canada or US.? -------A barrow
is already castrated.
redforlife
Well-known Member
If they still have their testicles, I agree to castrate as soon as possible. A boar hog still has thier testicles. A barrow is what they call one that does not. You might want to make sure they still have them before you start cutting around trying to find them. So the real question is what did you buy? Boars or Barrows??
Anonymous-0
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While we are on the subject, should I casterate my weather lambs to make them taste better ? What about the weather goats ?
Anonymous-0
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But I do need advice about breeding my gelding. Any sincere thoughts would be appreciated.
Justin SE IOWA
Member
Yes they still have their nuts
farmerwithmutt
Well-known Member
If you cut today you can have oysters for lunch anybody
had them ? Local vets had a nut feed not sure if they took a
little off the guys bill for free food
had them ? Local vets had a nut feed not sure if they took a
little off the guys bill for free food
formenwhogrow
Member
As far as lambs, it depends on when you butcher. If they're butchered before they reach puberty, no, castrating is a waste of your time and an unnecessary stress on the lamb. I butcher mine at around 90 lbs or before 6 months old and I do not castrate and I have never noticed any "off" tastes in the meat, nor have my customers. Goats, I have no idea.
Hammer house
Member
Justin, if he is A barrow he has all ready been castrated. Just get him fat and butcher.
Hammer Man
Hammer Man
Anonymous-0
Well-known Member
You are corect about butchering sheep before maturity. My point, and like so many others pointed out if you have a barrow, a wether, a stear or a gelding, you can't casterate it, because some one was already there with a knife or a band and had done it. It has been done already, you can't do it again. If you have a buck lamb, a bull calf, a boar pig or a stallion , sure. To some of that have in the livestock business for most of our lives, and are 4th or 5th generations at it, the definations means something. However is someone wants to hire me to casterate a barrow, a wether, a steer a gelding, I will give them a excellent price.
Anonymous-0
Well-known Member
Ok, I think the blinker fluid is in the barn behind the board streacher.I will send it tomorrow. But if you need a whole case of it I think you have a broblem with your blinkers. If you send me a chrome kinffler belt cover I will tell you how to fix that leak.
notjustair
Well-known Member
You'd know if they were gone. They will look like they have
saggy britches after they have been cut. There's something
missing in that sack! I've got 6 little gang bangers out there to
butcher in November.
saggy britches after they have been cut. There's something
missing in that sack! I've got 6 little gang bangers out there to
butcher in November.
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