So it's finnaly arrived: 500 pounds of Pastured/Naturally raised pork in every possible cut you can imagine. Pork Chops, Pork Steak, Hams, Ribs, Bacon, Sausages. And I also used some of my Dad's goat meat to create some 60% Pork 40% Goat Kielbasas (Eastern European style sausages). If you like that kind of thing, you will love these! Plus I bought 10 extra pounds of ground beef to add with my pork and had some spicy pepperoni sticks made! Forget "Oh Boy O'Berto"! These are way better! And healthier too! No added chemicals, just spices! I had just bought a 21 cubic ft. freezer the day before I picked up all the meat, and I'm glad I didn't go with something smaller, because it's pretty well packed in there! It's definently better to have a little extra room than to not have enough room. Besides, I am going to have a bunch of chicken here in not too long. My plan is to have at least half of the pork sold in the next 2 months though, so there should be plenty of room when the time comes. I just got the pork on Friday and I'm still calculating my cost of production, including feed and processing costs, but as soon as I have that figured, I will have a price list for all the different cuts of meat and sausages available. I can tell you one thing though, it's not going to be cheap! But you probably knew that. It costs a little extra for quality, natural, tasty food these days! I know that for many people, pork isn't one of their favorite meats, but I think the reason for that, is most people eat the cheap store-bought industrial JUNK pork, and that leaves them with a bad impression. My pork is the opposite, full of color, with perfect marbling, humanely raised on pasture, and it tastes incredible! I am planning on making a BIG batch of pulled pork soon and I will have that available soon for instant sandwiches etc. It will be pre-cooked and ready to eat, plain or on a sandwich or on mashed potatoes, however you like it. But then you can be lazy and still enjoy wonderful food! Contact me if your interested in pork: MBAMBER (@) AOL.COM (I do that (@) so I don't get a bunch of spam email.
Pictured on left - Cornish Cross Meat Chickens.My Neighbor Tammi and I decided to make the minimum order of 25 chicks and ordered them from a hatchery in the midwest. They were shipped in a box with holes cut out for air and with some bedding straw, and all survived! I have my twelve now living in my garage in a kiddie-pool. They have a bed of straw and the kiddie pool is just a convenient way of containing them (and easy to clean), with a couple feet of chicken wire wrapped around it so they can't jump out. In this picture the chicks are 3 days old. Right now they are about 2 1/2 weeks old and they are NOT CUTE! These are the fastest growing breed of chicken, and they should reach finishing size in a total of only 8 weeks! Tammi and I both wan't to learn how to process these birds ourselves, so if it's bearable AND profitable, you might be able to acquire some "NATURALLY RAISED, PASTURED CHICKEN"! They finish at about 5 pounds, so I actually will have quite alot of Chicken, and I would love to see how much better you think it tastes than store-bought, so I will let you know when the chicken becomes available. Until next time: HAPPY FARMING! -Marshall
