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As I've mentioned before, I've been keeping pigs on a bit of land near me for a couple of years, it's about three acres or so in size, and for the most part is a jungle of bramble, with a few trees an

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Aye, the good news is that after a bit of a paddy, I've sat myself down and i'm pretty sure I can think my way around it.   We're building a barn after all . . . .   I'll stop being a fanny now

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To be fair, the quality of the bellies I had was no where near the quality of home reared. Yet within 4 days it made a good sweet dry cure bacon. I used the salad crisper box in the fridge and emptied it twice a day. I cut the belly into three pieces and rotated them over three days, 123, 231,312 the only thing is, I do not like a lot of salt so I used to soak the slices for a couple of hours to take most of the salt out of them.

 

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Jai if you get any really fatty bellies , i'll have some off you to cure mate . Looks like your gonna have a lot of the scaleys about coming up soon, try keep on top of them before it gets out of had mate.

 

Looking good thou :thumbs:

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Jai if you get any really fatty bellies , i'll have some off you to cure mate . Looks like your gonna have a lot of the scaleys about coming up soon, try keep on top of them before it gets out of had mate.

 

Looking good thou :thumbs:

Whats a scaley?

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The mrs is keen. . . . i'm not.

 

Told her when we get a bigger place i'll let her get a pair for milking.

Is it just with regards to space your not keen or any other particular reason? :thumbs:

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