We feed our hogs, cracked corn, table & garden scraps, plus surplus milk. We plant extra things like squash and pumpkins for them. They also get lots of green stuff from their pasture. Around August they start getting peach scraps, and in the fall they get lots of apples. It does make for really delicious meat. Yes, when we cut into it, it does smell like real meat.
We had an extra hog to get rid of and a butcher bought it. He called and raved it was the nicest looking pork had ever seen. He wanted to arrange to buy from us in the future.
A neighbor of ours, tried home raised chicken, another neighbor had raised. They could not believe it. They said it was delicious and actually meat, not mushy. Plus it didn't have pockets of fat going all through it.
We don't necessarily raise our own food for the savings, we raise it so that we know what is in it, and for superior taste and quality. Pretty much the same as the rest of you folks.
We had an extra hog to get rid of and a butcher bought it. He called and raved it was the nicest looking pork had ever seen. He wanted to arrange to buy from us in the future.
A neighbor of ours, tried home raised chicken, another neighbor had raised. They could not believe it. They said it was delicious and actually meat, not mushy. Plus it didn't have pockets of fat going all through it.
We don't necessarily raise our own food for the savings, we raise it so that we know what is in it, and for superior taste and quality. Pretty much the same as the rest of you folks.
