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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Sbom on January 26, 2014, 07:24:33 pm

Title: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: Sbom on January 26, 2014, 07:24:33 pm

Taking six of our remaining piglets to market tomorrow. Have got the tags, done the online movement and checked I don't need an entry form.
Anything else I need? It's our first time taking pigs so abit unsure.....

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: shygirl on January 26, 2014, 07:39:18 pm

is it general mart or aimed at smallholders? if smallholders - try and include a description of what they are - if not for the catalogue then pin it to their pen. if its a farm market then it wouldnt matter so much.
have you set a reserve / checked the past sales prices so you dont get an nasty shock?
are they meat weight?

good luck

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: Sbom on January 26, 2014, 09:37:33 pm

General market, spoke to auctioneer and prices are good at the moment so it's now or never...... Not looking forward to it much  :-[

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: Padge on January 27, 2014, 07:03:10 am

Good luck Sbom    hope you come back with good news  :fc:

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: hughesy on January 27, 2014, 07:33:27 am

Yes good luck with them. Trouble is a "good" market price is probably still a fair bit less than it costs to produce a pig.

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: Berkshire Boy on January 27, 2014, 09:40:22 am

I expect good means £10 each rather than £5. Let us know how you get on. :fc:

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: Sbom on January 27, 2014, 01:23:10 pm

£48 each, topped the market I think  :thumbsup: well pleased

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: bloomer on January 27, 2014, 01:25:05 pm

at what age?


what breeds?


good price... i believe!!!

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: Sbom on January 27, 2014, 01:31:24 pm

9. Weeks old. Landrace/large White x Pietrain

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: Berkshire Boy on January 27, 2014, 02:21:54 pm

That's a good price  :excited:  about 4 times what i was expecting you to say.

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: Bodger on January 27, 2014, 04:42:57 pm

Quote from: Sbom on January 27, 2014, 01:31:24 pm

9. Weeks old. Landrace/large White x Pietrain

Those are 'proper' commercial pigs. :pig:

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: Berkshire Boy on January 27, 2014, 05:24:50 pm

That's the thing if they had been GOS or Berkshires they would have been a tenner.

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: Sbom on January 27, 2014, 05:59:44 pm

Prices were very mixed and there was some very poor looking specimens. About 15 saddleback types that only made £5 each and some of them were just so tiny it wasn't nice. On the other hand another pen of saddle backs made £35.....

Title: Re: Piglets off to market......question?
Post by: shygirl on January 27, 2014, 06:02:26 pm

thats reallly good, welldone