Oh dear...

[Robson Valley]

You certainly have made plans. Now I have recipes swirling around in my head = what to make first?

 

[spandit]

Well, they were 52kg & 54kg. The sow was a mere 124kg. That's nearly a 1/4 tonne of pig...

 

[CumbrianLad]

We raise pigs (3 - 6 at a time) at the Care Farm I work on. Our pigs go to a fairly local abattoir and come back as glorious sausages. The folk who spend the year feeding and loving the pigs also love the sausages ... having the whole process done "out of sight" takes away the distress that "on site" slaughter and processing could cause (the folk who use the Care Farm have various learning disabilities etc).
The sausages are really good and so are the burgers from the lambs we raise and send to the same abattoir.....our fund raising "BBQs" are all well attended!

Hey john that sounds like a great place i wish that we had more similar farms available up in Cumbria sounds like a great way to help teach valuable life skills and all around just have fun i myself have 2 immediate family members who suffer from 2 completely different learning disability's but i think they would benefit alot from a "care farm"

Basically what i am trying to say is well done and keep on doing the good work

 

[CumbrianLad]

Rowan to his last pig at the drop off (abattoir takes in sunday night and beds them down ) " I do love you Stinging Nettle" (his name for his piggy) ........ Chucks apple in ......." But i love sausages more" goes back to the car..

That made me laugh way to much haha gotta love kids brutally honest minds

 

[spandit]

Well, we didn't wait long before replacing them (although these arrived sooner than expected)

Another couple of boars, Berkshire. Very cute although one of them bit me this morning...

 

[Bhod]

Only fair seeing as you'll be biting into him in several months time Bon apetit !

 

[Badger74]

It would be interesting to see before and after shots of the ground you put them on, if you have any. It would be very helpful in my choice regarding following your lead.

 

[spandit]

It would be interesting to see before and after shots of the ground you put them on, if you have any. It would be very helpful in my choice regarding following your lead.

See http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=137126&p=1747019#post1747019 - shows before and after at the same time! They will turn an area of grass into mud in a very short space of time. Because these arrived earlier than we were expecting, the land hadn't had much chance to recover - given another few weeks it would be knee deep in weeds, I expect.