[Andy1982]

Hi everyone,

Did.nt know where I should post this but as I plan on getting some pigs first then good a place as any I suppose. My question is who is the body I need to get in contact with for a Herd Number in Ireland? I'm in the process of buying a place in Co.Mayo with 3 acres to start off with and I have to get all my details straight as to who to register with as I'm moving home after spending 7years in Norfolk.

Any help you can offer would be great, also I can get to meet some fellow Irish holders, as I will have a few more questions in time if you don't mind. 

Andy

[nihicib2]

hello andy.
                 We are based in donegal.we keep, pigs ,goats, horses and poultry you need to get in touch with the department of agriculture for your pig herd number and all other herd numbers. there is a forum callled the mayo plodders set up for small holders in that part of the country.
www.mayoplodders.myfreeforum.org
www.countrytalkandtips/myfreeforum.org
     all the bhest

[patmci]

You will have to have the area for your pigs set up before you start asking the department of agriculture to inspect you. They want to see that you have a satisfactory place to keep you pigs so a little pighouse and some fencing is in order. I have pedigree gloucester old spots for sale. Some will be ready in 4 weeks others will be ready in six weeks if this helps.

Regards Patrick

[langdon]

top of the morning to ya andy
im living over ere in tenby south wales but im from trim in co.meath
have been living over ere for 11yrs now we got just the one acre, we produce our own pork ( buy in weaners )
we have two goats to milk when they have their first kids and lots of chucks.
plus the veg garden cant forget that!!!
defra is who we got in contact with, dont know if defra is the same body over with you as it is ere.
hope you get it sorted out soon, fancy a pint
langdon

[Andy1982]

Thanks very much for the replies and I will have a place set up for them once the deal goes through. I am making my plans now as to where to start and with what. I will be dividing my 2.5acre main plot up into 6areas of 0.4acres each,so a couple of sows to get our feet wet. Thanks for the offer of the old spots but I don't think I will be near ready at thast point but i wll keep you in mind for the future if that's ok.

I will take a look at the website for holders in Mayo that get the ball rolling to get the feelers out as to a few people in the know, cause I'm uprooting the family from England.

I always fancy a pint btw   

Andy

[supersean]

hi andy im also from mayo, its easy enough to get the herd number, not an awful lot of places to get pigs killed around here, there was more 6 yrs ago when i got my first ones a bit of a pain , which part of mayo are you moving to,

[DandG]

Hi Andy,
Goodluck with the move, we are doing the same, the opposite to Landon. We are moving from Wales to either Cork or Wexford. We hope to breed pedigree pigs, GOS and may be some other breed, so our question was going to be the one you asked, so that has saved us 

Hope the move works out well for you, Ireland is a lovely place with lovely people, enjoy the Craic
Cheers
Geoff & Denise

[Andy1982]

Nice to hear form you and for sean I think it was I am moving to Arghamore (sure thats' how it spelt) about 6miles from Knock Shrine and it would be good to get out for a beer in the near future. :

I am from Ireland,albeit from Northern Ireland so as an old advert stated, "the craics great,the beers Bass" and I hope you also have a good move too.

Not such a great thing that there not much in the way of facilities to table my pigs,but in fairness I thing what me and the wife are planning is to have 3 sows (Tammy's) and breed mainly for a bit of income and keep the freezer well stocked at all times and we should be able to grow a fair amount of food for them. We are also planning on keeping plenty of chickens, once I have a coop built and we are mulling over what else to keep as we would have about .8acre free and 1.2 in total to grow fodders etc.

What would be good for a smallish space? Did think about a tethered goat or Jersey,but for the commitment it would be something we would have later but the piggy's need to get to work on ploughing .

Anyway Im starting to ramble a bit off topic...


Andy

[banbh]

It's aughamore -achadh mór - the big field.  Gaelic football country, rains a lot.

[langdon]

well well theres a face i havent seen for a while!
hows is things?
langdon

[banbh]

fine langdon, how are you? my pigs in trailer outside. Tomorrow morning they cross the shannon to yours and their native province to meet their end.
Slapmarked them this evening, and fed them well.

Mixed feelings of course, but this day was always going to come.

[Hilarysmum]

banbh hope it all goes went well. 

[patmci]

What slaughterhouse did you use banbh.

[banbh]

thanks hilarysmum.

I'll get over it. The pigs however.........


davis's in drumlish, seven mile outside longford

[langdon]

we are doing great over ere
eating our way nicely through our first lot of pigs, we now have more on the holding hopefully will be ready
for christmass.
well done on getting them finished, the pork is going to be awsome.
im sure it will go down down nicly with your favourite pint
we have also trippled our amount in chucks due to our fab little incubator.
longford, will you be staying to collect or leaving to collect?
its a long way aint it
langdon