Happy pigs!

Our pigs have had a nice life since we brought them home last fall.  They've enjoyed romping around their pen, eating to their hearts content and their favorite activity, if I had to guess, basking in the sun. 

However, it's time to face the fact that they're not pets - their fate since the day we got them has been dinner.  We're guessing they weigh somewhere around 300 lbs, so Dan had to devise a plan to be able to pick the pigs up to bleed out after he kills them.  The plan is that we'll lift the pigs up with the bucket on the tractor.  No human effort involved.  My kind of plan!  I'll be sure to post pics of the event... tentatively planned for next weekend as long as the weather stays nice.  For now though, here are our tubby, not-so-little pigs....

Bacon

Sausage... doing her favorite thing!