[Sudanpan]

Our 3 landrace x large black boys are booked in for their las tjourney on Monday, so today was slap marking day....


This is the 4th year I've done the slap marking. The first year I was a tad over enthusiastic and the poor pigs were not impressed to say the least! This year the boys hardly protested at all so I feel much better.


Not looking forward to Monday, but am looking forward to the freezer being full of the most DELICIOUS pork products to last us for the next 12 months 


Oh - and it's only 2 pigs for us, we raise the other pig for my sister 

[Fowgill Farm]

Well done!
We got our two boys back from butchers today and he said they were some of the best we've ever sent, well chuffed
Mandy

[white-blazes]

We've just done our 4th lot too.  The first we struggled with ear tags so we bought the slapper and like you were a bit too enthusiastic......next time we were kinder to them, only for the abattoir to say we didn't have to do them so long as breeder tags were still in.  So this time we didn't do them, phew!  Not had our meat back as yet.  Three saddle backs, two for us, one for a neighbour.

[that'll do pig]

Hi,

If you already have a slapper it is wise to slap mark them as well, as sometimes tags can get lost during the cleaning process - belt and braces

[Marches Farmer]

I'd always slap - that way you know you're getting your own pigs back and not Joe Bloggs' crossbreeds fed on Heaven knows what.  If you do them when their heads are down because they're eating, their shoulders stand out slightly and give a good target.