ollie989898
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Yeah, an artic full of live pigs and let them go in London.
Buy a big pig.
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Yeah, an artic full of live pigs and let them go in London.
ShooTa
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- Denbighshire - In the vale of Clwyd!
number them 1-50 (or whatever) but miss out number 7. hilarity ensues.
It is. For now. How far away from a world where putting food on the table is illegal I don't know.
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Think there’s already plenty of snouts in the trough
Kentishfarmer
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I think its a good idea, as others have said you need a CPH and to be a registered pig keeper and bringing them onto your holding creates a standstill for sheep and cattle aswell I believe.
Thing is shooting a pig in the brain with a 22 isn't as straight forward as people think, I've seen it go wrong, it's even harder to get it the second time around!
Scudding them to remove the hair isn't that bad IMO. Plenty of boiling water and some big knives.
But only direct family can legally eat your homekill
Thing is shooting a pig in the brain with a 22 isn't as straight forward as people think, I've seen it go wrong, it's even harder to get it the second time around!
Scudding them to remove the hair isn't that bad IMO. Plenty of boiling water and some big knives.
But only direct family can legally eat your homekill
- Location
- Essex
Time to approach a local pig farm and see what the crack is. We ought to help on another out and avoid the criminal waste of a cull.
We only wanted weaners, the chap twisted my arm by saying how he was overstocked with sows, he then delivered complete with a whole load of paperwork saying that we would be wanting to join the breed society seeing as we now had a pedigree pig. The dirty lowdown tricks of the enthusiast
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- East Sussex
Clive it is perfectly legal for you to kill your own pig any way that you want to.
It is actually perfectly legal to slaughter any animal as long as it is done humanely and it belongs to you. You must only use the meat for your own consumption. Hope you like sausages!!
Many years ago when we were exporting loads of animals alive into France, Holland and Belgium there was a period of time, similar to now when the pig price had been poor for Pork pigs and many decided to keep feeding them and get them into Heavy Hogs. Trouble was the market here has disappeared and the demand for them was in Europe. It still exists today.
Shipping live pigs is not very cost effective but I bet there are abattoirs in Belgium and Holland that would take these pigs at a price.
Unfortunately due to Brexit and there being no Border Control Posts this cannot happen either.
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
And I know a man who has one, now working as a self employed motor bike mechanic.
I knew someone who tragically smuggled one out of the abattoir and took his own life with it.
Nearly
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- North of York
I've 2 here.
Av Gorritt
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- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
I wonder how to use a captive bolt to mend a motor bike ?
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- Scottish Highlands
I don't think that's strictly true. I had an official here about something and mentioned in passing that I had to wring the necks of a few chickens. He mentioned that that was an authorised method of euthanasia. I'm sure I read a list of approved methods some where.
Yes, here it is:
Humane Slaughter Association, Improving Standards in Animal Welfare at Slaughter, in Markets and during Transport
The HSA is the only UK charity exclusively promoting the humane treatment of all food animals in markets, transport, at slaughter, and killing for welfare reasons and disease control
www.hsa.org.uk
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- Scottish Highlands
Piglets were once considered a delicacy. But why was R4 saying these pigs cannot go into the food chain? Is home kill in 'the food chain'?
Only reason I’ve heard is that they are too big to fit the plastic trays!!! Hardly a valid reason to chuck away good food.
glasshouse
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- lothians
That sums up the whole fukup
Whats the carbon footprint of tescos plastic consumption?
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/plastic-recycling-export-incineration/
Beyond plastic: Tesco's freezers burn more electricity than does all of UK ag.
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glasshouse
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- lothians
Can pig fatteners not reduce rations to maintainence only and slow production?
Oliveau
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- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
I don’t know if it still happens, but here in France one could find a travelling butcher who would kill a pig, string it up on an apple tree to bleed it so that the women could get on and make the boudin noir while he cut and dressed the carcass. There isn’t much of a French pig that doesn’t get eaten! Andouillettes for example - an aquired taste!
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- Le Veurde, Allier, France 03320
I believe a pig is the only farm animal that you are legally allowed to kill and butcher at home.