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Maximise the income from my small holding
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<blockquote data-quote="Davey" data-source="post: 7761363" data-attributes="member: 372"><p>I was going to say the same, especially pigs!</p><p></p><p>As far as the pigs go, rough numbers if you do a rare breed, butchered and sold direct to the local community you will see roughly £1-200 per pig return but that gives you nothing for your time.</p><p></p><p>Time wise they will need feeding/checking twice daily, possibly more during bad weather / farrowing.</p><p></p><p>A day to take the pigs to slaughter, and fetch the butchered meat back.</p><p></p><p>The next bit of marketing & delivering the meat is where you can swallow weeks if you're not careful. Ideally you need to try an organise your marketing to get rid of everything as soon as it is ready, delivery is best but it is a lot of running about. If you offer collection be prepared to have people treat your farm as a free day out for the family!</p><p></p><p>Selling direct to the public is hard work.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Best return on time is to sell weaners but that is very time of year dependant and hard to scale up to any real size.</p><p></p><p>For a time I was selling direct to butchers but again it can be wearing as I've had someone who was having 2-3 pigs per week go bust on me and another butcher who only had maybe 1 or 2 pigs a month yet always complained and wanted money off for the most ridiculous of things.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In short, best way to make money is to rent your ground out to some other poor sod, otherwise take satisfaction that you get to do something you love.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davey, post: 7761363, member: 372"] I was going to say the same, especially pigs! As far as the pigs go, rough numbers if you do a rare breed, butchered and sold direct to the local community you will see roughly £1-200 per pig return but that gives you nothing for your time. Time wise they will need feeding/checking twice daily, possibly more during bad weather / farrowing. A day to take the pigs to slaughter, and fetch the butchered meat back. The next bit of marketing & delivering the meat is where you can swallow weeks if you're not careful. Ideally you need to try an organise your marketing to get rid of everything as soon as it is ready, delivery is best but it is a lot of running about. If you offer collection be prepared to have people treat your farm as a free day out for the family! Selling direct to the public is hard work. Best return on time is to sell weaners but that is very time of year dependant and hard to scale up to any real size. For a time I was selling direct to butchers but again it can be wearing as I've had someone who was having 2-3 pigs per week go bust on me and another butcher who only had maybe 1 or 2 pigs a month yet always complained and wanted money off for the most ridiculous of things. In short, best way to make money is to rent your ground out to some other poor sod, otherwise take satisfaction that you get to do something you love. [/QUOTE]
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