Casterating Pigs

Now I know that all of you out there have just been dying to know all about the above listed subject.  What it concerns is removing the male pig’s social standing in the sty!!

  In order to get you familiar with “pig terms” I shall endeavor to instruct you in the proper pig descriptions.  A young pig shortly after weaning is referred to as a “shoat”.  The unbred female is referred to as a “gilt”.  The male shoat is referred to as a “boar”.  This nomenclature is soon to be changed unless the male pig is to be kept for breeding purposes.  If so, he remains a boar.

  The un-lucky group of male pigs that remains is about to have its social standing altered.  This will cause the soon to be altered male great distress as he will become a “barrow”. 

 

The operation starts with three (3) men entering the sty.  The first is referred to as the “hooker”.  It is his responsibility to catch the male pigs and transport them to the “holder”.  The “holder” bends down in a squat, much like a baseball catcher and cradles the unlucky pig up-side-down by all four feet, exposing the pig’s private parts.  The pig greatly resents this intrusion on his happy life in the sty and responds by sounding off with a series of loud “wheeees”.  No matter, his fate is sealed.  Enter the “hatchet” man”.  The “hatchet man” actually uses a single edged razor blade to perform his craft.  He grasps the scrotum of the pig and pinches one side.  This forces the testicle to push against the outer skin of the scrotum, or as we hayseed farmers call it, (“the tobacco sack”) the “hatchet man” then slits the scrotum and forces the testicle to pop out of the scrotum.  The “hatchet man” then pulls the testicle up and cuts it off with the razor and tosses it aside.  The same procedure is then performed on the other testicle.  The pig is strangely silent except for an occasional grunt during this “operation”

  After the procedure is complete the pig is swabbed with a mixture of turpentine and lard.  This is to ward off infection?

  After being released, the pig does not move away as fast as you would expect.  He stands there with a dazed look on his face, unable to comprehend what has just happened to him.  Needless to say the next day he moves around a bit stiff legged with a bewildered air about him.  He knows something drastic has happened but not what it was.  Poor pig.

  There, I have told you more than you ever wanted to know about “pig operations”

Dal