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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

 On Dec 29, 2007 2:58 PM, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I have a couple of Hispanic friends from work who have experience(one
> Mexican, one Salvadorian, and one Honduran if that makes any difference
> ethnically in how they do it) who have offered to help me the next time
> I decide to raise hogs, but I worry that they might expect equipment,
> like a big vat, that I don't have.

I'd ask them for details. When I was a kid my extended family
butchered a couple of hogs. My uncle had a smoke house and a huge cast
iron pot for dipping the hogs. For whatever reason (I think no one
wanted to raise the piggies), we quit doing that about the time I was
old enough for school.

Latin Americans generally can improvise lots. I'm not sure what you'd
do about the vat but it's worth asking.

Marie