Well, it took a couple of days of trying, but we were able to get an older dairy cow that wouldn't breed, had a bad leg, and wasn't in milk along with our first pig over to the processor yesterday morning.
The hardest one (by a long shot) was our pig. His name was Freezer and he was somewhere around 400lbs I'd guess. We'll know hanging weight today probably. I built a ramp to make the step into the trailer smaller, parked the trailer out there in the paddock for several days and even fed him in there... but nothing worked. On the evening before we were due at the processor, our last ditch effort was to lure him on with some left over raw milk and that finally worked. Our dairy cow was much easier and she went in with some coaxing...even with the bad leg. We hates to get rid of her, but everything on our farm needs to serve a purpose.
The cow will feed our family and depending on how our first pig goes, we may have pork available for customers soon. We are excited and thankful to God for the blessings.
