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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: country soul on February 28, 2011, 07:03:04 pm

Title: the price of pigs at local mart
Post by: country soul on February 28, 2011, 07:03:04 pm

I was suprised today to see really good looking saddle back gilts making only £17 at the auction market  each,they weighed 35kg.Poorer types made less than that my mate bought some for £4
For anyone who was thinking of getting kune kunes and "micro" types they were £2 each , about the price of a bacon sandwich!
I suspect its the price of corn which is depressing prices

Title: Re: the price of pigs at local mart
Post by: oaklandspigs on February 28, 2011, 07:15:21 pm

Yes, people rarely make anything at auction, and generally use it to dump excess stock that they cannot sell privately and cannot afford to keep.

Buying is a bit of a lottery - you don't know their history or disease status, don't get a chance to see mum or the set-up they came from.  You can get a fanstatic bargain, or a real problem  - just as with buying cars!

 

Title: Re: the price of pigs at local mart
Post by: country soul on February 28, 2011, 07:23:30 pm

some of the stock was of real quality and a bargin.the kunes etc were a right state  and I reckon just being dumped as they couldnt afford to feed them.There was about 40 of them

Title: Re: the price of pigs at local mart
Post by: knightquest on February 28, 2011, 07:32:05 pm

As a non pig keeper.................can you salvage a poor specimen to say fatten up and eat?

Ian

Title: Re: the price of pigs at local mart
Post by: robert waddell on February 28, 2011, 07:51:02 pm

it can be done

Title: Re: the price of pigs at local mart
Post by: hoggsbreath on February 28, 2011, 09:37:11 pm

what part of the country was this?.