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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Cobra on February 10, 2011, 03:49:24 am

Title: Slaughter time
Post by: Cobra on February 10, 2011, 03:49:24 am
Well first pigs are booked for the abbatoir next teusday, wish me luck  ;D Do I feel guilty  :pig:  ???  :yum: :yum: :yum: NO!  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Hilarysmum on February 10, 2011, 08:05:42 am
Good luck.  Leave plenty of time.  Keep calm.  You wont need luck.  You will be just fine.   Think BACON
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: JulieS on February 10, 2011, 09:51:31 am
Good luck.  I'm sure everything will go smoothly.

Do let us know how you get on.
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Helencus on February 10, 2011, 12:17:48 pm
All the best.. Enjoy the pork ;D
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Post by: shetlandpaul on February 10, 2011, 02:39:30 pm
at last our pigs are going next thursday nearly 2 1/2 months late. they are around 130kg now so lots of pork to cut up.
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Anke on February 10, 2011, 09:47:59 pm
Our local abattoir will only take them up to 100kgs - so you are lucky there! I guess lots of ham to be salted then!
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Cobra on February 11, 2011, 02:41:39 am
at last our pigs are going next thursday nearly 2 1/2 months late. they are around 130kg now so lots of pork to cut up.

Good greif  :o Hope youve got a big freezer  ;D

Best of luck with yours, at least I can man handle mine in the trailer if neccasary  :D
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: shetlandpaul on February 11, 2011, 11:41:39 am
he does not mind has its been due to his slaughter house needing fixing very friendly guy. still an extra two monthy of pig feed does add to the cost. pity really they are very friendly girls.
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Eve on February 11, 2011, 04:35:35 pm
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Think BACON

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Cobra on February 23, 2011, 12:00:11 am
Well last Tuesday was a good day and loading was great, Ive herd so many stories and they litrely followed me in the trailer with the bucket; I was gobsmacked but delighted at the same time.

All has gone well and I collected the meat today, looks damn fine, tasting tomorrow  :yum: thanks to everyone here for your advice and help through my first piggie process, its really appreciated  :wave:
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: NorthEssexsmallholding on February 23, 2011, 11:14:46 am
CObra, did you have the meat butchered and processed or you doing that yourself? 
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: shetlandpaul on February 23, 2011, 12:12:23 pm
lucky cobra one of ours went in quite happily the bigger of the two would not she just stood there a squelled. she then decided she was not staying and ran off.
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Hermit on February 23, 2011, 04:04:21 pm
Did you get her back?
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: shetlandpaul on February 23, 2011, 04:23:42 pm
2 1/2 hours with the family running around to get her back in. they then broke out a bit later because the gate was not secured and they were found a sleep in some old silage. she just lay there snoring it was quite funny if it was not so wet and windy. (she never left the croft to much effort) she loved running around the bales seeing who would give up first.
were getting some one in to take them on monday. they seem to know what they are doing.
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Hermit on February 23, 2011, 04:27:41 pm
Oh good  bacon butties soon then :yum:
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Cobra on February 25, 2011, 04:22:44 am
CObra, did you have the meat butchered and processed or you doing that yourself? 

Our slaughter house has their own butchers shop. I booked them in via the shop; slaughter sent them on to the shop where they were cut up, shoulders boned and rolled, belly pork rolled, legs cut in four and the rest chops the heads and offal.

Sausages etc I'm going to do myself. Very reasonable slaughter and butcher came to £36 per pig.

Invited family round on Wednesday and we all had a roast dinner, wow it was worth every day i went out in that damn winter  :D bloody yummy  :yum: :yum: :yum:
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Hilarysmum on February 25, 2011, 03:14:09 pm
So will you be getting some more in the very near future Cobra?
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Cobra on February 26, 2011, 03:05:26 pm
So will you be getting some more in the very near future Cobra?

I have six here that should be ready in around four weeks time. Already started thinking about the next move; at the moment cant decide on a couple for fattening or looking at a sow for breading?
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: shetlandpaul on February 28, 2011, 04:20:23 pm
yes they are gone. the folks thought they would do it easily. wrong big pig was shall we say resistant to the idea. has anyone else been thrown by there pigs im not small by the way.
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Hilarysmum on February 28, 2011, 06:58:32 pm
Hilary (of course who else..) took our 6ft. 2 vet for a ride 
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: TheCaptain on February 28, 2011, 10:50:48 pm
yes they are gone. the folks thought they would do it easily. wrong big pig was shall we say resistant to the idea. has anyone else been thrown by there pigs im not small by the way.

When I brought 'Aunty' back from her stay at the Boar she was, shall we say, a little reluctant to get on the trailer.  Having tried everything to get her on we eventually tried the bucket-of-feed-over-the-top-of-the-head-and-reverse-her-in method.  She was having none of it, and as I had the bucket at the front end, I was lifted 'gracefully' off my feet and carried off, backwards, on the back of 30 stone of GOS pig down the yard!  I'm over 6ft and 13 1/2 stone, I don't even think she knew I was on there.
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: shetlandpaul on March 03, 2011, 06:24:54 pm
just got big pig back. she was 130kg dead weight roughly 205 live weight. she had between 2-3 inchs of fat on her. i have 5 black bags of fat to render. thats what happens when you delayed by 3 1/2 months. little pig was 100kg so even she was not small.
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: Hilarysmum on March 05, 2011, 03:03:08 pm
Bet she is delicious.  What about making lardy cake ...
Title: Re: Slaughter time
Post by: shetlandpaul on March 05, 2011, 07:39:45 pm
thats a good idea.
yes she is. the butcher who did the cutting even taught us the correct method for the sausages. they now work very well.