I think to even start to kill your animals at home you must be experienced. Getting it wrong would be a total nightmare. Talking about doing it is not easy I would expect. You raise them, could you then kill them and make a good quick job. We take ours to Dingwall and that is hard enough. I take them in myself as they are used to seeing me every day. I stay calm but once back in the car I feel so bad but we raise them for meat and I make sure they get a good life with the best of care. Killing them myself, never going to happen.
That is a very good point, well made. Fortunately, I have vast experience in home meat production having raised 100% of the meat my family eats for many years now.
Add in foraging, fishing, trapping, and roadkill, I am pretty good at putting dinner on the table. As I posted my question in the pig section I only mentioned pigs but all manner of animals came and went in my very tiny homestead.
I am thrilled that what I have done in the states is legal for me to keep doing here as I was a touch worried that it wouldn't be and already I am missing the quality I produce. Nothing in a supermarket can compare with home-raised pork!
The wording on the DEFRA document though had me :roflanim:at its wording. Blimey, whoever wrote it needs to look up the definition of STUN!