Author Topic: Does anyone make any money from pigs? (Read 20602 times)

honeyend · « **Reply #60 on:** June 15, 2013, 07:57:18 pm »

Near Cambridge, the same feed from another shop they wanted over £9. Everything is normally expensive, but it was that price 8 weeks ago.

Beewyched · « **Reply #61 on:** June 15, 2013, 08:03:36 pm »

Too far away for us

for you that it hasn't gone up in price the last couple of months.

hughesy · « **Reply #62 on:** June 15, 2013, 09:21:00 pm »

Costs are not that relevant for someone keeping a few weaners for their own freezer and buying a few bags of feed at a time is never going to get you the best price. I'm constantly shocked at the prices some people have been paying though. Anyone who keeps pig seriously is going to be getting their feed a lot cheaper than the quoted per bag retail prices but if you use a lot even a few pence a bag makes a difference.

shygirl · « **Reply #63 on:** June 16, 2013, 06:45:28 pm »

Quote from: Over the Gate on June 10, 2013, 11:50:23 am

When my GOS has her litter, I wont be able to sell the pork from them as GOS pork unless the litter is registered but I will be quite in my right to say that the piglets have come from a regeistered mum and dad.

the offspring dont need to be registered but birth-notified to be sold as pedigree. you can download forms from BPA once they are slaughtered to prove the carcus is from reg parents. only breeding stock needs to be registered (ie best 10%)

benkt · « **Reply #64 on:** June 16, 2013, 08:54:45 pm »

@honeyend - we've been getting the duffields for a while now and they seem absolutely fine - we get them at ~£6.70 a bag but do get half a ton at a time which brings the price down a bit.