The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: WinslowPorker on May 31, 2010, 08:41:50 pm
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Hi guys,
after much threating i actually have 5 mins to sit down and give you the costs i have incurred in rearing 7 pigs for meat:
7 weaners - £315.00
Straw ( 13 bales) - £32.50
Arcs x 2 - £50
Food x 50 bags - £283.50 (heygates grower pellets 20kg £5.67 per bag but there is a discount of 30p per bag if you order a minimum of 25 bags)
Extra food - £30 (milk, apples etc + we got a sack of bread every week in exchange for 5lb of sausages at the end of it)
Slaughter - £205
Butcher - £150 ( including sauages)
there was no expense for fencing or electris fencing as this was already in place.
Total cost £1,066.00
We sold 6 of the pigs for £1,450 and ended up with half each for the freezer.
Hope this is of use to you guys and bear in mind there is no allowance for fuel or hours!! but man alive what an experience it has been :pig:
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Well done for getting all that info on here, I'm sure they'll be loads of people noting it all down for their own number crunching.
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this is very useful WP will jot these figures down for future reference! even more profit will be made next time as there will be no cost for the sti`s and other start up costs. Did you worm them during the duration??
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Excellent info WP ;D
Just what I need to convince the OH that there's little point just raising 2 or 3 - we should definately have more. You can never have too many pigs ;) ;D ;D ;D
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That's very true HappyHippy.........can never have too many pigs :love: :pig: :love: :love:
:) :) :)
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Hi Jacob didnt worm them, coz i think i read on a thread here that up to 9 months pigs are unlikely to suffer from worms, so we made the choice not to do them.
I imagine that year one is the most expensive because of Arcs and electric fencing etc but yes i agree next year there will ne more profit because we will already have the basics to look after them.
I firmly stand by the 2:1 ratio of keeping pigs - 2 sold will cover all the costs of raising 3 and you ened up with a pig in the freezer!
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You're right about the worming WP. They should have been wormed by the breeder at weaning, so wouldn't need worming again until 6 months after that.
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Thanks JulieS i knew there was a reason why i didnt worm and totally forget the obvious of them being wormed already :pig:
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Will you be doing it again?
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Wow I am impressed well done. Your slaughter costs are a bit cheaper than mine and so is your butcher I pay £50 a pig including bacon and sausages.
I am getting 4 this time so will try to keep track of the costs (as long as OH does not see it). I will not keep them as long this time last ones were with me far too long but we all learn by our mistakes.
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definately going to be doinh it again next year, would get some more straight away but we house them on my friends land and he needs to settle this land back down and make an area for his geese, so next year it is. Mind you it has been a great experience and no need to kick the @rse out of it. What i thas made me realise is that i really do want a house with some land so that i dont have to get in the car to go and see them!
Next year on the costs i will probably also end up with about 10 weaners so will buy my food in bulk and have it delivered. This Heygates feed may be a local thing to my area but i am sure they deliver nationally so it may be worth calling them as £5.67 a bag is by far the cheapest i found
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W.P. I said I would tell you how much it cost to keep the last 2 pigs We had but I daren't It would make you cry It has me ??? ::) :farmer:
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come on Wiz be brave you cant leave us on that type of cliffhanger - you should be a scriptwriter ;D for Eastenders
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Well W.P You've asked for it under £40:00p and both weighed over 30 score The most expensive part after the piglets that cost £12:00p was Dewey coming to dispatch them ;D ;D ;D :farmer:
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I am a bit pigged off! >:(
I am paying £7.40 per bag for exactly the same feed! 30% more!!!!! Eeeeeeek!
I think you are doing really well to get such cheap butchery costs - I think I paid 45 quid per pig last time around. As for the price of your pig arcs - what on earth are they living in? Brilliant that you could actually make money after your first pigs - I am a while off that as I paid a lot of money over for fencing and my arcs were horrendously expensive even though we made them ourselves!
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Bloody hell Wiz 30 score were they saddleback cross indian short eared elephant ;) :pig:
GreenerLife that seems a lot of money, where do you live coz if you may be better to ask Heygates direct. The pig Arcs a got from a huy called James http://www.pighuts.co.uk/ (http://www.pighuts.co.uk/) fortunately he is local and was advertising some for repair on Ebay and we got two of them delivered for £50. sometimes he has a few that need some basic repairs so may be worth speaking with him.
the butcher is just my local bloke who i get my meat from anyway and he normally charges £25 for cutting but did them all for £20 each cash and an extra £10 for sausaging.
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Nah WP the old fashioned Large Whites we found they did us proud.Really good eating and keeping.Never had any go wrong :farmer: :wave:
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You did a good deal from your butcher, ours are more than double that!
I am a bit concerned though about this getting the cheapest pig food that is going - do you actually know what is in it? After all if you sell your meat as being a cut above supermarket meat then you would need to be sure that it is actually better! We buy Allen & Page stuff, and yes it is lot more expensive, but I know that its not full of organic chemicals that were used as extractants! (I used to be a chemist in a former life).
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I am not 100% sure on the food ingredients but locally Heygates have always been known as good supplier of flour and animal feeds, so i would hope that it is all good stuff left over from flour production?
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There seems to me to be a lot of smoke and mirrors with food for pigs. I tried looking at the composition of all the types I have used, and have got thoroughly confused by everybody involved in the process! My local animal feeds place says to use Heygates creep grow for the duration whereas Heygates web site says to move them on to something different after 11 weeks, and I see that WP did the former. The pig nuts I used last time around were much bigger, and this also seems to be an area for confusion. Nothing is straightforward is it? I am not too bothered with getting the cheapest Anke, but I do get annoyed when I hear that someone is getting exactly the same product for 30% cheaper! Ho hum - more research. This also seems to be one thing that the internet seems to fail on - anyone else found that?
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I have just this quandry going on now.
I use sow/weaner nuts 16% protein from conception to slaughter!! My GOS do well on this.
But Hi-Peak are stopping doing their 'Natural' range which i have used for sometime now, no GM nasties or dodgy by-products. They are going completely organic which would add £100/tonne to my usual order! >:(
I have had great trouble finding a new supplier that does not use any GM ingredients particulary soya. It looks like the Farmgate range by BOCM Paulls might be my answer but we shall see. Farmgate also only do 20kg bags as opposed to 25kg bags i normally get so i think its going to work out more expensive. i will have to do some sums.
Just when you think you've got it right............... ::)
Farmgate is sold @ £7.75/20kg bag so makes it £387.75/tonne,so puts my cost up by £91/tonne :(Might as well buy the organic!!!!!!!