chooklady Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 We have bought a Gloucester Old Spot this morning. A man my OH knows raising them on his small holding, you pay half the money up front and half on delivery of the meat which will be in about 4 months, he is rather cute but I don't think I'll have a problem eating him!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Webmuppet Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 I love pigs......not such a fan of pork though. I once had a Saturday job on a pig farm, I worked in the maternity dept. looking after the new born piglets & mums. I had to bottle feed the poorly and rejected ones. The lady who ran it used to sob her heart out every time the pigs when to be'processed'. We used to buy our pork by the half a pig from the farm, I had to try to forget that I had probably looked after it when it was a baby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 We have bought a Gloucester Old Spot this morning. A man my OH knows raising them on his small holding, you pay half the money up front and half on delivery of the meat which will be in about 4 months, he is rather cute but I don't think I'll have a problem eating him!! We did that with our pigs last year - only a couple of people didn't want to know anything about them and just wanted the meat delivered - the others all came to visit 'their' pigs. As they were sold as 'half a pig' we had some very odd, double-barrelled, names for them all GOS will be very tasty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 We did that with our pigs last year - only a couple of people didn't want to know anything about them and just wanted the meat delivered - the others all came to visit 'their' pigs. As they were sold as 'half a pig' we had some very odd, double-barrelled, names for them all GOS will be very tasty! Hi Lesley This looks very interesting. I got my last lamb from my milkman's farm and he was very tasty ... the lamb not the milkman. I had a quick google at buying a pig to rear. I found £4.80 per Kg and 50 - 60 Kg reared weight. That's a heck of a lot of pig. Where did you get yours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missuscluck Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Ahhh. We have Gloucester old spot piggies. They are lovley. Ours would roll over and have their tummys tickled untill they got a bit big and stroppy towords the end of their days. Lesley is right. The pork is awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 We did that with our pigs last year - only a couple of people didn't want to know anything about them and just wanted the meat delivered - the others all came to visit 'their' pigs. As they were sold as 'half a pig' we had some very odd, double-barrelled, names for them all GOS will be very tasty! Hi Lesley This looks very interesting. I got my last lamb from my milkman's farm and he was very tasty ... the lamb not the milkman. I had a quick google at buying a pig to rear. I found £4.80 per Kg and 50 - 60 Kg reared weight. That's a heck of a lot of pig. Where did you get yours? We weren't buying, we were selling. We get our weaners from a local breeder of show winning Berkshires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
