A Picture Poll

[madshutterbug]

Cow & Hog... more or less Safe for Work, covering most definitions of Work.



I've posted this one before, which is why it isn't exactly the Pic'o'Day. Here are the questions/reason why I'm posting it again.


[Poll #1585265]

Comments

[lolleeroberts.livejournal.com]

I must say I would not have pegged that as a hog skull. I tend to think of them as shorter and broader. That looks more like goat to me but I am a poor city girl who thinks meat comes in little blocks at the store.

[madshutterbug.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's a hog skull all right. The hogs we've got come from a batch which resulted in cross-breeding between domestic: Durock (Wikipedia link) and Poland-China Spot and Baja Jorja Wild. They've got much longer snouts than domestic hogs do as a consequence. They're also noticeably less docile than domestic hogs. More significantly, they make a bigger ham than wild so things are fairly balanced there, and they are leaner than domestic.

And (if we do say so ourselves) very tasty.