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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: suziequeue on December 21, 2014, 09:19:18 am

Title: Can I trace a pig from its slap mark?
Post by: suziequeue on December 21, 2014, 09:19:18 am

Just curious really. Bought a gammon from the butcher and it has a slap mark on it - 73746.


How can I trace the origin of the pig?

Title: Re: Can I trace a pig from its slap mark?
Post by: oaklandspigs on December 21, 2014, 09:43:42 am

Don't think that's a UK slapmark and not a slaughterhouse number, could be a processor number, whereabouts did you buy it, and is it definitely uk?

Title: Re: Can I trace a pig from its slap mark?
Post by: Marches Farmer on December 21, 2014, 10:49:05 am

UK herd nos. are one or two letters followed by 4 numbers - AB1234.

Title: Re: Can I trace a pig from its slap mark?
Post by: suziequeue on December 21, 2014, 03:48:32 pm

I got it from the butcher. He wasn't pretending that it was anything other than a bog standard gammon. Yes - the slap mark isn't English. I expect it's Danish


Anyway - it turned out as per so I'm happy

Title: Re: Can I trace a pig from its slap mark?
Post by: Bionic on December 21, 2014, 04:17:29 pm

It looks very nice  :thumbsup: