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Dutchjim

  • Joined Jun 2011
  • Chartridge
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2012, 07:30:28 pm »
Kilo pricing makes indeed the best comparison. We charged £4.75 per kilo.
The first lot of seven was 70kilos (the boys) and the females went 4 weeks
later and came in at 95 kilos
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windymiller

  • Joined Oct 2011
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2012, 07:55:52 pm »
we've a neighbour who was at hereford market the other day the finished weaners were making around £3.5 lb for a bog std. pig deadweight by his reconing.

digit

  • Joined Sep 2009
  • near Swansea
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2012, 07:59:24 pm »
digit i think they have special pigs and lambs       one legged pig halfs and two hearted lambs :D :farmer:
It's still cheap for a one legged half pig  ;D

manian

  • Joined Sep 2010
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2012, 09:32:05 pm »
hi w
we add up the cost and divide by the number of halves (taking out one for us)
sell for about £130 1/2 pig and make sure this covers cost. we add on the cost of sausage
usually works out ok make sure around £5 kilo

ramblerskitchen

  • Joined Nov 2010
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2012, 09:52:02 pm »
I sell mine at £6 kilo, the last few were very large (left them to 8 months saddlebacks) and the two largest were £220 for a half.  Both people who ordered them knew they were large and having had previous pigs were more than happy to pay the price.

By charging per kilo, its fair to all my customers, I am also able to split into quarters if needed and its easy for me to work out.  I am in Dorset.

cuckoo

  • Joined Jan 2011
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2012, 10:26:21 pm »
I have now fully costed my pigs and am selling for £6/kg plus cost of making the sausages

Eve

  • Joined Jul 2010
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #21 on: January 24, 2012, 10:42:43 pm »
Ah, yes, I should have mentioned weights, not just price. Our customers get literally half a pig, not x-number of joints or sausages, and also the pluck. They had about 97lbs of meat of half a 6-month old GOS boar (so inc head and trotters etc) and it cost them £175 + £16-£18 for butchering at the abattoir (non-abattoir butchers in this area charge around £30-40 per half).
GOS weaners here cost at least £50.


Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2012, 08:57:24 am »
Well, Robert, why not? I once sent away a lamb that, apparently had three shoulders ;D

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2012, 09:40:43 am »
Kilo pricing makes indeed the best comparison. We charged £4.75 per kilo.
The first lot of seven was 70kilos (the boys) and the females went 4 weeks
later and came in at 95 kilos

DutchJim £4.75/kg is way too cheap we only just break even at £6.30kg so you must be losing money hand over fist unless you get your feed for free!? I think you should look at your costings mate.
Mandy  :pig:

Tamsaddle

  • Joined May 2011
  • Hampshire, near Portsmouth
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2012, 12:47:10 pm »
Crumbs - the prices you all charge seem awfully low to me.   We don't sell half pigs as there isn't the demand, but sell boned & rolled roasting joints, and sausages, at £7.50 a kg, bacon and ham for more at £10 to £12 a kg.    So far we have had more customers than we can keep up with - Tamsaddle 

Dutchjim

  • Joined Jun 2011
  • Chartridge
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2012, 05:57:24 pm »
Say 90 kilos of meat times £ 4.75 = £427.50 per pig.!! I think that's a load of money.
I have done the sums and I  make £100 profit per pig.
But my feed cost are very low. Endless supply of apple pulp,
Vegetable waste from veg shop and rolled barley in ton bags and weaner
pellets to up the protein. Mutchmeats kill and butcher.
In these hard times I find it hard to charge much more.
www.chilternridge.com
Apple Juice made from your apples

onnyview

  • Joined Dec 2009
    • onnyview free range produce
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2012, 06:08:09 pm »
If buying in bulk I charge £6.00 a kilo for pork boxes, quater, half and whole pigs. Sausages are £6.50 a kilo. If selling individual cuts I price depending on joint, chop etc.

Feedcosts are most people's stumbling blocks...
Onnyview free range produce- Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs, Hill Radnor and Llanwenog sheep.

www.onnyview.moonfruit.com

Maesgwyn

  • Joined Nov 2011
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2012, 04:54:05 pm »
Has any one tried growing a crop to feed pigs and if so what? We have been selling pork for £6 a kilo but not had a market here in Carmarthenshire as yet, we are able to get rid of a lot back in Hampshire but this adds to the fuel cost, posting is just as expensive. A bog standard weaner can be picked up at just £5 but we are rearing Berkshire and just slaughtered 8 Saddle backs, the nearest slaughter house is over an hour away but they do butcher to our requests there on site which saves a bit.

Eve

  • Joined Jul 2010
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2012, 07:33:27 pm »
Have you thought of converting chipfat into diesel instead?  Might be an easier way to cut down on costs than growing a crop?
 :wave:


windymiller

  • Joined Oct 2011
Re: Pricing for half pigs
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2012, 07:38:56 pm »
Has any one tried growing a crop to feed pigs and if so what? We have been selling pork for £6 a kilo but not had a market here in Carmarthenshire as yet, we are able to get rid of a lot back in Hampshire but this adds to the fuel cost, posting is just as expensive. A bog standard weaner can be picked up at just £5 but we are rearing Berkshire and just slaughtered 8 Saddle backs, the nearest slaughter house is over an hour away but they do butcher to our requests there on site which saves a bit.

yep 12 acres of feed wheat and 8 of long straw marris wigeon this year, all cut with binder and threshed by steam, we'll also put in 4 acres of fodder beet this next year as were buying it in at the moment, pigs grow well on the beet but still get some GLW nuts, feed wheat ground/ kibbled and fed as a wet mash with water or milk.

 

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