[WinslowPorker]

Hi guys,

after much threating i actually have 5 mins to sit down and give you the costs i have incurred in rearing 7 pigs for meat:

7 weaners - £315.00
Straw ( 13 bales) - £32.50
Arcs x 2 - £50
Food x 50 bags - £283.50 (heygates grower pellets 20kg £5.67 per bag but there is a discount of 30p per bag if you order a minimum of 25 bags)
Extra food - £30 (milk, apples etc + we got a sack of bread every week in exchange for 5lb of sausages at the end of it)
Slaughter - £205
Butcher - £150 ( including sauages)
there was no expense for fencing or electris fencing as this was already in place.

 Total cost £1,066.00
We sold 6 of the pigs for £1,450 and ended up with half each for the freezer.

Hope this is of use to you guys and bear in mind there is no allowance for fuel or hours!! but man alive what an experience it has been
 

[MiriMaran]

Well done for getting all that info on here, I'm sure they'll be loads of people noting it all down for their own number crunching.

[jacob and Georgina]

this is very useful WP will jot these figures down for future reference! even more profit will be made next time as there will be no cost for the sti`s and other start up costs. Did you worm them during the duration??

[HappyHippy]

Excellent info WP 
Just what I need to convince the OH that there's little point just raising 2 or 3 - we should definately have more. You can never have too many pigs

[JulieS]

That's very true HappyHippy.........can never have too many pigs 
 

[WinslowPorker]

Hi Jacob didnt worm them, coz i think i read on a thread here that up to 9 months pigs are unlikely to suffer from worms, so we made the choice not to do them.
I imagine that year one is the most expensive because of Arcs and electric fencing etc but yes i agree next year there will ne more profit because we will already have the basics to look after them.
I firmly stand by the 2:1 ratio of keeping pigs - 2 sold will cover all the costs of raising 3 and you ened up with a pig in the freezer!

[JulieS]

You're right about the worming WP.  They should have been wormed by the breeder at weaning, so wouldn't need worming again until 6 months after that.

[WinslowPorker]

Thanks JulieS i knew there was a reason why i didnt worm and totally forget the obvious of them being wormed already 

[chriso]

Will you be doing it again?

[Daisys Mum]

Wow I am impressed well done. Your slaughter costs are a bit cheaper than mine and so is your butcher I pay £50 a pig including bacon and sausages.
I am getting 4 this time so will try to keep track of the costs (as long as OH does not see it). I will not keep them as long this time last ones were with me far too long but we all learn by our mistakes.

[WinslowPorker]

definately going to be doinh it again next year, would get some more straight away but we house them on my friends land and he needs to settle this land back down and make an area for his geese, so next year it is. Mind you it has been a great experience and no need to kick the @rse out of it. What i thas made me realise is that i really do want a house with some land so that i dont have to get in the car to go and see them!

Next year on the costs i will probably also end up with about 10 weaners so will buy my food in bulk and have it delivered. This Heygates feed may be a local thing to my area but i am sure they deliver nationally so it may be worth calling them as £5.67 a bag is by far the cheapest i found

[Wizard]

W.P. I said I would tell you how much it cost to keep the last 2 pigs We had but I daren't It would make you cry It has me

[WinslowPorker]

come on Wiz be brave you cant leave us on that type of cliffhanger - you should be a scriptwriter  for Eastenders

[Wizard]

Well W.P You've asked for it under £40:00p and both weighed over 30 score The most expensive part after the piglets that cost £12:00p was Dewey coming to dispatch them

[Greenerlife]

I am a bit pigged off!   

I am paying £7.40 per bag for exactly the same feed!  30% more!!!!! Eeeeeeek!

I think you are doing really well to get such cheap butchery costs - I think I paid 45 quid per pig last time around.  As for the price of your pig arcs - what on earth are they living in?  Brilliant that you could actually make money after your first pigs - I am a while off that as I paid a lot of money over for fencing and my arcs were horrendously expensive even though we made them ourselves!