tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6462892922175873030.post4355742152111661148..comments2024-03-19T20:28:45.768+00:00Comments on Notes from a Suffolk Smallholding: Bringing home the baconPhiliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13415361156288825232noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6462892922175873030.post-85638078982964477512018-04-15T11:57:45.013+01:002018-04-15T11:57:45.013+01:00Hi Dave, we are normally able to re-coup our slaug...Hi Dave, we are normally able to re-coup our slaughter and butchery costs but not the full costs of production as pigs are costly to feed. But then we are doing it primarily for our own self provisioning. I can see how a cattle must be a much bigger job.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13415361156288825232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6462892922175873030.post-54412525940541243012018-04-15T09:32:57.303+01:002018-04-15T09:32:57.303+01:00It's good if you can sell one of the animals. ...It's good if you can sell one of the animals. Slaughtering can be very expensive, especially cattle.northsider https://www.blogger.com/profile/00716743611909673869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6462892922175873030.post-21852946598262845012018-04-14T21:05:47.493+01:002018-04-14T21:05:47.493+01:00That’s the very same place we have been using for ...That’s the very same place we have been using for several years, Col. We like them because they are a small operation and have got to know the team there well. It was a bit overwhelming the first time we collected two butchered unlabelled jointed pigs but now we know what we’re getting. It must have been a bit of a trek from your old smallholding. Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13415361156288825232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6462892922175873030.post-64009499955222527702018-04-14T15:10:21.955+01:002018-04-14T15:10:21.955+01:00Many years ago we took 2 pigs to a butchers shop i...Many years ago we took 2 pigs to a butchers shop in Long Melford. They had a small abattoir behind their shop. When I went to collect the meat, all jointed, they were all loose and sitting in cardboard trays. A bit of a shock and a bit of a job to fit in a fiesta.colin cuthberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01773817942795230849noreply@blogger.com