The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: langdon on March 29, 2010, 07:51:36 pm
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as one of our pigs is going of to slaughter next month we were wondering
could they go in our freinds trailer who we bought them off, as his are going in is well.
its just that we dont have a trailer of our own yet. :pig:
langdon
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A mate of mine put his pigs in with someone else's for the same reason as you, and the carcase was quite badly bruised. Might be OK if you can keep them seperate but I don't think it's a good idea otherwise.
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Hi Langdon
I used to be a slaughterman and we never mixed pigs in the pens due to fighting as not only do the pigs get stressed they also change the colour of their meat you would find it alot darker. So if you were to mix them on the way there you will face stress of journey and possible fighting I would recommend against it unless you can seperate them on the trailer or depending how far away your abbatoir is wait for your friend to return with the trailer and as long as it is jet washed out you can then take your pig!!!! let me know how you get on..
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I agree, I wouldn't mix them on the trailer........Personally I wouldn't even put them in a separate area in the trailer. Not worth the stress it would cause.
Well worth doing 2 separate trips, you will have much happier pigs and much better meat.
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Agree entirely make two separate trips.
Last summer we had a set of four brother pigs who had been kept in two's so we thought that as they were siblings they could be mixed to go to th abbattoir..... WRONG ... they fought their heads off to point of exhaustion, luckily we had tried to put them together a few days before so they had time to calm down and return to their twosomes and we made two 80mile round trips on the same day!!
Always something to learn as a pig keeper!!! :pig: