[plumseverywhere]

I am really interested in worm farming - I will send you a message later for more info.

Despite not being veggie I am embarrassed to say that I struggle with the idea of rearing animals from babies and then taking them to slaughter to eat them myself. I am really embarrassed as I feel like a hypocrite! this year someone else is using our land to graze 4 lambs and will deal with the final part but has offered us meat to go in the freezer - it will be a test for me having only started to eat lamb again in the last 9 months.
however rearing worms sounds like something I could manage without being too daft!!   
I actually do admire those who CAN do it and I really hope that one day I can too as it seems daft having all this grass empty because I'm a wally lol.

[Fruit of gods]

We have setup worm farms on a domestic as well as commercial basis so your always welcome to ask or giv us a bell.
We can supply you with a startup or just a few worms and off you go....as I explained before, its all down to how much input your looking at and if you just want to put outside and do seasonal or go all year round.

Cheers

Sy
07875 754607

[doganjo]

Despite not being veggie I am embarrassed to say that I struggle with the idea of rearing animals from babies and then taking them to slaughter to eat them myself. I am really embarrassed as I feel like a hypocrite! this year someone else is using our land to graze 4 lambs and will deal with the final part but has offered us meat to go in the freezer - it will be a test for me having only started to eat lamb again in the last 9 months.
I actually do admire those who CAN do it and I really hope that one day I can too as it seems daft having all this grass empty because I'm a wally lol.

You're not alone, Plums.  I have often said that I can eat anyone else's animals except my own.  I was at Carol and Graham's this afternoon and was taken out to see the sheep - the four going to slaughter were pointed at and I resolutely turned to look at the tup and the hens instead. I did see the Hubbard chicks but I won't be eating them anyway so that was OK.   As Treasurer of Central Scotland Smallholders I DO feel a bit of a fraud though

[northfifeduckling]

Plums, that is the reason why I will never be a "proper" smallholder. I just can not kill things I've looked after. We had one drake slaughtered and it was really hard to actually eat him 

[plumseverywhere]

I wonder if its easier when there are vast numbers of an animal that are raised then all go off? when there are only a few, its understandable that you pick up on them having personalities (and, eek - they get names!)
I know how devastated I was to lose the 2 goats last year, sobbed for ages. partly because I blamed myself but also because i 'knew' them. my 9 year old said maybe if we were real farmers with hundreds of stock we'd find it easier - she's too grown up for her own good that Milli 

[bloomer]

lol if i ever get to move im fairly certain my eldest son will refuse to eat anything raised by us

as far as im concerned breeding stock can have names everything else will be called 'dinner'

[seldomseen]

plumseverywhere, you are so right, we feed the best to the animals and the best of the food to the animals lol
   

[seldomseen]

No I said that wrong lol
the animals get the best and we get the scraps lol

[Mo]

I thought I would have problems eating our own pork....until I tasted it! 
We have a photo of our first two pigs in the kitchen.
It reminds us why we chose to raise our own pork, and how contended they were.
We were very sad to take them on their last journey and that's good. They weren't just food, if that makes sense?

[seldomseen]

it is a bit confusing must admit, I read somewhere to give chickens a raw beef burger just before you introduced new chickens, or give a burger if they are fighting too much, it apparently stops the blood lust in them.(not suprised really, the burgers around here taste absolutely fowl, no pun intended) ...dunno thats what I heard.

[northfifeduckling]

as long as you keep it well out of your own kitchen 
but , yes, apparently increased protein will reduce evil pecking 

[seldomseen]

Over here no-one seems to be aware of this no food to animals through the kitchen thing,
what if you do as we do and peel pots etc cabbage carrots blah blah blah in an outside room so it goes no where near your kitchen 

[Leri]

I said that and it was suggested you couldn't prove it?!
But how could they prove otherwise?!

[northfifeduckling]

I said that and it was suggested you couldn't prove it?!

Leri, where did you hear or read it?
 

[Leri]

I think if your veg is peeled in a utilty room away from your kitchen - and nowhere near any where where meat or any meat products of any kind are prepared then they are ok. If veg isn't stored in the kitchen and goes off also ok. If your local greengrocer gives you stuff it's ok.

I think the problem here is how would you go about proving it if the animal health people (or whoever) challenged you on it or someone made a malicious complaint to them?

Our boys love fresh apples and carrots but I'm always careful to store them in the shed, well away from the house. Just simpler that way.

Here - earlier in this thread. x
Is that what you meant?!