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The big pig is hoisted by a forklift. [Photo/enews.xwh.cn]

Super pig a headache for butcher

Pork is the main course on the New Year's dinner table for those living in Northeast China, but sometimes it turns out to be tricky to cook the dish.

An overweight pig reared by a farmer in a village in Changchun of Jilin province daunted purchasers because of its super-large size and high fat content, reported enews.xwh.cn. So, the owner of the animal decided to kill it for his family's New Year dinner. To slaughter the big beast, which weighed more than 350kg, the farmer, surnamed Zhao, had to hire a forklift to hoist it first.

The super pig has a larger foot than normal ones. [Photo/enews.xwh.cn]

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