Buy a big pig.

[tullah]

Surely large pig producers don’t have to account for every pig that leaves the farm. Some die of stress in the pen.
So the doors open for anyone to go and and collect their healthy pig and no paperwork necessary.

 

[beardface]

They used to chuck the dead pig one bonfire to scorch the bristles off before scraping the skin. An old boy in the village claims to have seen a "dead" pig jump squealing out of the fire on one occasion, to much amusement.
Did anyone else sit shaking their head, listening to the idiots advocating either releasing 100000 pigs into the wild, or rehoming them, on Jeremy Vine yesterday?

Release the lot on Downing Street I recon. Be a different smell of sh!t for a while.

 

[Hilly]

Surely large pig producers don’t have to account for every pig that leaves the farm. Some die of stress in the pen.
So the doors open for anyone to go and and collect their healthy pig and no paperwork necessary.

They should as small pig farms do .

 

[delilah]

Well, yes, we bought a big pig a couple of weeks ago to do our bit to help out.
Trouble is, it came with 7 little ones too .

 

[yellowbelly]

I thought some of the contracts stipulated that “all pigs must be sold too us the processor”??

Those contracts don't seem to be worth the paper they're written on if the processors can chuck up 25% of the pigs.

I don't think many pig farmers will be worried about selling anybody else an odd pig or two.

 

[DRC]

In the village that my brother lives in Bulgaria , they have an annual pig slaughter and share out the meat. I think the women do most of the work while the men get drunk on some home distilled high octane stuff .

 

[No wot]

you need a license to move them don’t you ?

could i keep a couple in a well fenced grass paddock until i wanted to butcher? or could i legally buy a couple dead pigs ?

They'd plough your grass paddock up , you'd have to source "notill " pigs Clive .

 

[Hilly]

If you buy a pig off a struggling farmer make sure it’s a family farm not these massive company’s with zillions o pounds sitting waiting for the competition to be killed off .

 

[Henarar]

Well, yes, we bought a big pig a couple of weeks ago to do our bit to help out.
Trouble is, it came with 7 little ones too .

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[Humble Village Farmer]

Just wondering, as the thought has crossed my mind too get 5/6 pigs and get our local family abattoir too kill and cut up for me (no waiting list longer than normal there) and flog on half pigs too my collection of 1/2 lamb customers.
Are the big pig outfits allowed too sell to common folk? I thought some of the contracts stipulated that “all pigs must be sold too us the processor”?? The smaller units around here seem too be carrying on pretty much as normal. It’s just the massive finishing unit up the hill that’s stalled so far.

The big processors are in breach o contract by not taking the pigs, which in turn are going out of spec, so you would hope common sense would apply.

 

[Muddyroads]

The big processors are in breach o contract by not taking the pigs, which in turn are going out of spec, so you would hope common sense would apply.

Sadly, common sense is not common!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

The big processors are in breach o contract by not taking the pigs, which in turn are going out of spec, so you would hope common sense would apply.

You would hope so!! But these contracts seem very heavily weighted as “we the processors can change as we like but you the supplier must stick too the contract or face penalties”?
One of our friends used too supply Edwards’ at Hyde. (Now Tulip) every pig on the farm had too go straight for slaughter too them. When he had a balls up and a gilt farrowed in the fattening shed there had too be a “midnight visit” too get her away as he only had fatteners.

 

[Skintagain]

Just wondering, as the thought has crossed my mind too get 5/6 pigs and get our local family abattoir too kill and cut up for me (no waiting list longer than normal there) and flog on half pigs too my collection of 1/2 lamb customers.
Are the big pig outfits allowed too sell to common folk? I thought some of the contracts stipulated that “all pigs must be sold too us the processor”?? The smaller units around here seem too be carrying on pretty much as normal. It’s just the massive finishing unit up the hill that’s stalled so far.

They would get some out for you. Buy them off them and get them to take them straight to kill at your place of choice

 

[Dry Rot]

For some reason R4 said these pigs could not go into the food chain? Why not, I wonder?

Back when I kept "free range" pigs, the local slaughterhouse used to kill, scald (to remove the hair), and split them for me, then I'd cut them up on the kitchen floor (on newspaper, of course, full hygiene applied). Freezer packs of free range pork sold well.

Yes, I think home kill is legal and I've never understood the restrictions on using a gun. A .410 close up is efficient as anything and no restrictions that I know of. There will be other legal methods of destruction if anyone can be bothered to look them up. If they are dead, they are dead, and the law is unlikely to be an onlooker.

Offal would need to be disposed of via a legal outlet, so knackery. Unless it was a pet, when I think it might be legal to bury the entrails in your back garden, with a suitable tombstone. Maybe some enterprising person will do the same for Packham, though he really ought to be recycled.

 

[Hilly]

boil water in old bath shave pig in garden , I can just see Clive now , might get the cords wet and have to remove the cravat when sawing it in half !

 

[Anymulewilldo]

boil water in old bath shave pig in garden , I can just see Clive now , might get the cords wet and have to remove the cravat when sawing it in half !

All things considered I’ll stick too paying the £15 too have it killed and halved…

 

[Henarar]

Not so long ago I helped someone do a bullock, big old over age thing must have been 800kgs plus shot it I picked it up with the loader chap skinned it and whatnot and cut it in half with the chainsaw.

 

[Nearly]

There are no legal restrictions on a captive bolt gun.
Daft but true.

 

[Hilly]

Not so long ago I helped someone do a bullock, big old over age thing must have been 800kgs plus shot it I picked it up with the loader chap skinned it and whatnot and cut it in half with the chainsaw.

Recipient saw is more civilised

 

[michael N123]

I don’t think there is a big issue as long as it’s for home consumption, you may want to check your firearms license as I specifically requested dispatch of animals to be included on mine. Should probably go and read it again to make sure it says what I think it does!

Doesn’t need to say it with a shotgun