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Like us all, I appreciate good quality pork. My local butcher provides Woodland pork, which is extremly tasty, but I've really got a desire for rare breed, 'old fashioned' pork. Having been dissapointed in my efforts to find it, and to need to sit down when I do when I see the cost, I have found my perfect solution - buy my own pig!

I've read about 'pig share' schemes where a number of people chip in to buy a pig and then share out the meat when the animal is slaughtered. I couldn't find a scheme in my area but I found something better!

I've found a pig farmer who will buy a weaner of whichever breed I want, look after it and feed it till it gets to butchering size, then take to slaughter and if I want, butcher it for me. He looks after all the vet bills and Government regulations and red tape, I get around 100lbs of prime porky goodness!

Total cost £295.
Thats prime rare breed pork at £2.95/lb.

I've ordered a Gloucester Old Spot and waiting for the first pictures of my pig to arrive.

Fan-fecking-tastic!!!

Where is this farmer? I want to do the same thing.

how much wastage is there with a full/half pig? is is really worth the effort or just an entertainment factor?

Vic. wrote:how much wastage is there with a full/half pig? is is really worth the effort or just an entertainment factor?

Effort? What effort!

I suppose if you are happy with Supermarket factory-farmed pork, then its a lot of faff, and not worth the 'entertainment factor'.

However, if you enjoy pork that has taste (as I do), and care about animal welfare (as I do), and can accomodate the quantity of meat on a whole pig (as I can), and you want it cut up a certain way (as I do), then it is worth every penny.

As regards wastage, the pig is an animal that we can eat from snout to tail, so there is very little wastage.

But as they say, if I have to explain, then you wouldn't understand!

Fair play Banjo! Much respect!

Vic. wrote:

Banjo wrote:

Vic. wrote:.

But as they say, if I have to explain, then you wouldn't understand!

fight

Not at all......

I never have an inteluctual battle with an unarmed opponent.

lol....i've got skewers

Have you been on the Newcastle Brown today Vic?

Steve wrote:Have you been on the Newcastle Brown today Vic?

na. Budweiser .............right I'm for bed, good night all