Do pigs make money?

[Charlie kifford]

Hi

Im thinking of buying a few weaners to finish as a little side project. I was thinking of making them all in to sausages and privately selling them for maximum profit. Has anyone done this and has a rough idea of profit I would make?

Thanks

Charlie

 

[Hilly]

Hi

Im thinking of buying a few weaners to finish as a little side project. I was thinking of making them all in to sausages and privately selling them for maximum profit. Has anyone done this and has a rough idea of profit I would make?

Thanks

Charlie

Better just be the butcher/retailer , buy finished pigs at cop , spend all much time marketing marketing marketing , the job needs people butchering marketing retailing dosnet need any more pigs. Just my thoughts , buy good pigs at market try breath some life into live market pig trade and you can get them when you want need dont have to wait for your own to be ready etc

 

[Hilly]

Hi

Im thinking of buying a few weaners to finish as a little side project. I was thinking of making them all in to sausages and privately selling them for maximum profit. Has anyone done this and has a rough idea of profit I would make?

Thanks

Charlie

What area you work in ?

 

[farmgineer]

I agree with the previous post, just buy at market if you want to make a profit. I just sold some in market, bought as weaners for £28/EA and fed them for 6 months ish before selling them for £24/EA.
Done sausages and there may be a bit in it, but my feeling is that most of the money goes back out on packaging. It also takes a long time to pack up a pigs worth of meat.

If you want some pigs though, they are great animals. Very friendly if treated right, and they taste better than anything you can buy in any shop. I'd recommend rearing them if you are eating them yourself or want them as an interest, but profit wise, not a chance at the moment sorry

 

[d williams]

Hi

Im thinking of buying a few weaners to finish as a little side project. I was thinking of making them all in to sausages and privately selling them for maximum profit. Has anyone done this and has a rough idea of profit I would make?

Thanks

Charlie

Pocket money for the kid’s if you allocate all your time
You’ll buy a finished pig cheaper then feeding a weaner

 

[Pigken]

Hi

Im thinking of buying a few weaners to finish as a little side project. I was thinking of making them all in to sausages and privately selling them for maximum profit. Has anyone done this and has a rough idea of profit I would make?

Thanks

Charlie

Any thing can make money, sausage s are good money maker, BUT when the professional processor want £2 kg to make your sausages, slaughter costs are on top to. Depends on your area and potential clients as to if you can charge full value or enough to cover costs.
Recently cost nearly £800 to get 2 sows slaughtered, skinned, boned out, minced, sausaged and packaged. Oh and they kindly did 180 kg of sausage in unrequested flavour. But over well 350 kg of meat, in mince, steaks, fillet and few sausage s came back.
Freezer is full.
But is a certain pleasure eating own.

 

[som farmer]

we rear a small few, when we have surplus milk, none this year. Cocked up the last ones, you don't realise how quickly they grow, had a 6 week waiting list to kill, 120kg a side x3, can sell some, never make enough sausages, they just vanish, Girl wrote down wrong instructions, for cutting, ended up with 55kgs gammon steaks, but no bacon, or gammon joints. Chops should be referred to as chop joints, and the joints are massive.
used to rear a lot of meat, for the home freezer market. That died off, as kids left home, and people bought small freezers. Can always find a joint if someone needs one.
Used to earn about £8/900 profit a month. 12/14 month friesian bulls were the best for profit, divided into 8 boxes, sold per box, fr bulls do not require hanging for more than a couple of days, either.

 

[som farmer]

Any thing can make money, sausage s are good money maker, BUT when the professional processor want £2 kg to make your sausages, slaughter costs are on top to. Depends on your area and potential clients as to if you can charge full value or enough to cover costs.
Recently cost nearly £800 to get 2 sows slaughtered, skinned, boned out, minced, sausaged and packaged. Oh and they kindly did 180 kg of sausage in unrequested flavour. But over well 350 kg of meat, in mince, steaks, fillet and few sausage s came back.
Freezer is full.
But is a certain pleasure eating own.

our last 3, cost £680, inc gammon and sausages, but, as you say, meats good !