Who Loves Pork

[Kay 3,709]

We no longer have a village butchers but the pork they sell in the co op is lovely, been having belly pork from there for a month or so & its beautiful , very good quality

 

All the co op meat is good quality there serloin steak is the best I have eaten from a supermarket

[scothunter 12,609]

Good old co op kay life saver at times lol

 

tulip bacon is as far as i go with pork. Hate chops and never eat roasts either.

[socks 32,253]

 

 

Got some pigs coming in the new year, they'll be penned in the woods, first time for me with pigs a mate brings on 6 at a time and the meat off em is beautiful

I don't know what anyone else thinks mate but I would advise not to get too many to start with, a couple will yield up enough meat to feed a family for months.

Learn all their funny traits and all the various methods they have to escape and it's easier to catch 2 than it is 6 when they decide to go for an explore.

Get them used to you with a bucket of grub and leading them around is easy.

Pigs are bright and good fun and they are like naughty children......so start small would be my advice.

Cheers for the advice mate,

I know the biggest problem will be the kids (and the mrs) becoming too attached and we'll end up with loads of animals lol.

Supposed to be getting 6 turkeys off a mate, had a slight hitch but still hoping to be bringing them on for Christmas...

the next door farmer wants to put sheep on here too, it'll be a good way learn a bit about keeping them and I'll put a few of my own on as well... plus a couple of goats, had goats as kids they were great fun and certainly kept on top of the vegetation...

Got a few chickens and a duck at the minute..

And a gimp lol ........

[green lurchers 16,369]

 

 

 

Got some pigs coming in the new year, they'll be penned in the woods, first time for me with pigs a mate brings on 6 at a time and the meat off em is beautiful

I don't know what anyone else thinks mate but I would advise not to get too many to start with, a couple will yield up enough meat to feed a family for months.

Learn all their funny traits and all the various methods they have to escape and it's easier to catch 2 than it is 6 when they decide to go for an explore.

Get them used to you with a bucket of grub and leading them around is easy.

Pigs are bright and good fun and they are like naughty children......so start small would be my advice.

Cheers for the advice mate,

I know the biggest problem will be the kids (and the mrs) becoming too attached and we'll end up with loads of animals lol.

Supposed to be getting 6 turkeys off a mate, had a slight hitch but still hoping to be bringing them on for Christmas...

the next door farmer wants to put sheep on here too, it'll be a good way learn a bit about keeping them and I'll put a few of my own on as well... plus a couple of goats, had goats as kids they were great fun and certainly kept on top of the vegetation...

Got a few chickens and a duck at the minute..

And a gimp lol ........

 

interesting

[leegreen 2,100]

 

 

Pork is the world's most popular meat, accounting for 70%.

Figures from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation

 

 

 

Pigs are so easy to keep. Everyone with a bit of land should have a go.

 

I've had Sheep, Goats, Chicken and Turkeys. Done the whole thing myself, from bottle feed to freezer. Can't bring myself to do Pigs, too intelligent and I think I'd get too attached to them.

I took my Sheep to the abattoir once ( horrible places), they had a power cut, I had to drag the sheep out of the van ( they knew something weren't right) and put them in a pen whilst I did the paper work and they sorted the power out. When I came back to the van which was parked near the pen where I had left them, they started to call to me, it proper choked me up I nearly put them back in the van and took them home to do myself. I will never go back to an abattoir again.

 

I may have another think about Pigs as they come up all the time, proper cheap too, £30-£40 is the going rate for a weaner, the older the better and they cost about £1 per day or there abouts depending on how much free grub you can get.

 

iv a mate like that he get very attached to his livestock an there a fallow deer at his feeders he wont shoot it either, strange it be hanging up if id my way an he geriatric sheep running about eating good grass id have them in the dogs freezer

 

Pretty much the same as me about the birds here, plenty of Woodies, Pheasants about and I haven't shot one in the 17 years I've been here.

Sheep are stupid and seem to know they're gonna be eaten.

[leegreen 2,100]

 

 

Pork is the world's most popular meat, accounting for 70%.

Figures from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation

 

 

 

Pigs are so easy to keep. Everyone with a bit of land should have a go.

 

I've had Sheep, Goats, Chicken and Turkeys. Done the whole thing myself, from bottle feed to freezer. Can't bring myself to do Pigs, too intelligent and I think I'd get too attached to them.

I took my Sheep to the abattoir once ( horrible places), they had a power cut, I had to drag the sheep out of the van ( they knew something weren't right) and put them in a pen whilst I did the paper work and they sorted the power out. When I came back to the van which was parked near the pen where I had left them, they started to call to me, it proper choked me up I nearly put them back in the van and took them home to do myself. I will never go back to an abattoir again.

 

I may have another think about Pigs as they come up all the time, proper cheap too, £30-£40 is the going rate for a weaner, the older the better and they cost about £1 per day or there abouts depending on how much free grub you can get.

 

i kept a few sheep years back the tastiest were hebridean , hardy little b*****ds but very very tasty big ol ram and a few ewes dont take long to get a few for slaughter , kept pigs free range funny fkers , guinea fowl anglo nubian goats geese and chickens all found there way into the cooker /bbq, dont think same rules apply now as back then but it was great fun , home reared food deffinately is tasty

 

 

 

 

Pork is the world's most popular meat, accounting for 70%.

Figures from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation

 

 

 

Pigs are so easy to keep. Everyone with a bit of land should have a go.

 

I've had Sheep, Goats, Chicken and Turkeys. Done the whole thing myself, from bottle feed to freezer. Can't bring myself to do Pigs, too intelligent and I think I'd get too attached to them.

I took my Sheep to the abattoir once ( horrible places), they had a power cut, I had to drag the sheep out of the van ( they knew something weren't right) and put them in a pen whilst I did the paper work and they sorted the power out. When I came back to the van which was parked near the pen where I had left them, they started to call to me, it proper choked me up I nearly put them back in the van and took them home to do myself. I will never go back to an abattoir again.

 

I may have another think about Pigs as they come up all the time, proper cheap too, £30-£40 is the going rate for a weaner, the older the better and they cost about £1 per day or there abouts depending on how much free grub you can get.

 

i kept a few sheep years back the tastiest were hebridean , hardy little b*****ds but very very tasty big ol ram and a few ewes dont take long to get a few for slaughter , kept pigs free range funny fkers , guinea fowl anglo nubian goats geese and chickens all found there way into the cooker /bbq, dont think same rules apply now as back then but it was great fun , home reared food deffinately is tasty

 

Still think home slaughter is allowed, but you can't sell or trade it.

Tried to explain to a Muslim once that my home reared meat was more Halal than anything he had bought from the butchers. Meaning the animal had a pure upbringing and died without fear. He was eating the same stuff as us, but his was killed by a man with a beard.