[Sbom]

Taking six of our remaining piglets to market tomorrow. Have got the tags, done the online movement and checked I don't need an entry form.
Anything else I need? It's our first time taking pigs so abit unsure.....

[shygirl]

is it general mart or aimed at smallholders? if smallholders - try and include a description of what they are - if not for the catalogue then pin it to their pen. if its a farm market then it wouldnt matter so much.
have you set a reserve / checked the past sales prices so you dont get an nasty shock?
are they meat weight?

good luck

[Sbom]

General market, spoke to auctioneer and prices are good at the moment so it's now or never...... Not looking forward to it much 

[Padge]

Good luck Sbom    hope you come back with good news 

[hughesy]

Yes good luck with them. Trouble is a "good" market price is probably still a fair bit less than it costs to produce a pig.

[Berkshire Boy]

I expect good means £10 each rather than £5. Let us know how you get on.

[Sbom]

£48 each, topped the market I think  well pleased

[bloomer]

at what age?


what breeds?


good price... i believe!!!

[Sbom]

9. Weeks old. Landrace/large White x Pietrain

[Berkshire Boy]

That's a good price    about 4 times what i was expecting you to say.

[Bodger]

9. Weeks old. Landrace/large White x Pietrain

Those are 'proper' commercial pigs.

[Berkshire Boy]

That's the thing if they had been GOS or Berkshires they would have been a tenner.

[Sbom]

Prices were very mixed and there was some very poor looking specimens. About 15 saddleback types that only made £5 each and some of them were just so tiny it wasn't nice. On the other hand another pen of saddle backs made £35.....

[shygirl]

thats reallly good, welldone