Hogzilla still rules

WSBRadio.com ^ | June 2, 2007 | AP

[Cicero]

We have some friends with five children who once had a pet pig. They told me that had to have it slaughtered in the fall, when it reached a thousand pounds, because they began to get very worried that it might eat their kids. It ate just about everything else.

[small voice in the wilderness]

I will never complain about my husband’s Christmas gifts to me. Ever again. How do you return a hog?

[newfreep]

I’m so disappointed - was expecting a thread on the hildebeast.

[listenhillary]

Send it to the slaughter house in exchange for bacon and hams?

[dforest]

I will never complain about my husband’s Christmas gifts to me. Ever again. How do you return a hog?

Some people call that divorce! LOL!

[TommyDale]

Is Rosie O’Donnell getting divorced?

[dforest]

Is Rosie O’Donnell getting divorced?

Not yet, it is bound to happen.

[TommyDale]

Oh, sorry. When I saw this was a thread about hogs, I just assumed... LOL!

[Jeff Chandler]

he bought the 6-week-old pig in December 2004 as a Christmas gift for his wife

Too bad there weren't any weddings soon after. She could have re-gifted it.

[Beagle8U]

Domestic hogs are one animal that never stops growing as long as they live.

Few are ever raised more than a few years because the meat doesn’t bring much at market if they get much over 250# and they will eat too much in relation to meat yield.

Most hogs will be butchered at about 6-9 months old. They grow fast.

Once over 250# the meat to fat ratio drops.

[ikka]

They told me that had to have it slaughtered in the fall, when it reached a thousand pounds, because they began to get very worried that it might eat their kids.

That is true, and the pig is low enough to the ground that they can easily knock down even the toughest dude.

[AlaskaErik]

I will never complain about my husband’s Christmas gifts to me. Ever again. How do you return a hog?

Ummm...take it back to the Harley dealer? Not that I'd want to.

[pcottraux]

[Sherman Logan]

The world record for the heaviest pig so far is held by “Big Bill”, a Tennessee domestic Poland China hog that tipped the scales at 2,551lb in 1933 with a belly that dragged on the ground.

[Popman]

a Tennessee domestic Poland China hog

There is at least a half dozen jokes in there somewhere

[Ditter]

When my husband was ranching full time, he brought home a piglet for me to raise on a bottle. We named her Fern after the little girl in Charlotts Web. Fern lived in our backyard until we decided she was old enough to go the the ranch and live with the cows. Our boys played with Fern all the time and when she saw us driving up she would come running to be scratched. Even when she got to several hundred pounds our boys would ride her and she would run and buck them off. At some point maybe 500 lbs we decided she was a little big and rough to be a playmate and she ........... shall we say......... moved away.

[Beagle8U]

I know they will get big if you keep them a few years. Even breeder boars are seldom kept too long because they will get too big to breed the gilts without breaking their back.

You about have to starve them to keep their weight down.

[Sherman Logan]

Yup.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Mona: as sung by James Taylor:

Life's good friends are hard to find
And now one of mine is dead
The things I should have said to her
I shall say to you instead

Mona, Mona
So much of you to love
Too much of you to take care of
Mona, Mona
You got too big to keep
And too ** old to eat

When you where just a football
At your mama's side
I reckon everyone figured you
For a bar-b-que when you died
And here i'm thinking about you lying underground
Pushing up a pine tree in my field

Oh Mona, Mona
You can close your eyes
I've got a twelve gauge surprise
Waiting for you

Ever since the day she passed away
Everything's just the same
Everywhere i go
Somebody mentions her name
Sometimes it's easiest to tell a friend a lie
'cause they don't understand the way i feel

Oh Mona, Mona
So much of you to love
Too much of you to take care of
So long

Now she is gone and i am left alone as you can see
But ever since i caused her death
I do miss her company