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Selling butchered rare-breed pork

  • 06-04-2016 1:45pm
    #1
    Danjken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭


    Does anyone have experience of selling rare-breed pork from home-reared pigs?

    I'm not new to pig-keeping, but I've always kept the meat myself after slaughter (done professionally of course). I'm wondering what the options are for selling the meat? Can you sell directly to local butchers? Do they pay a fair premium for home-reared rare-breed pork (such as Tamworth or Mangalitsa)? Is selling online an option? What are the health and safety hoops that you have to jump through to sell it?

    I'm already familiar with the keeping/slaughtering/butchering process, it's just making a return on the meat that I have no experience of. Advice appreciated.


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  • #2
    Danjken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭Danjken


    By the way, I'm talking about on a very small scale here, not commercial pig-farming. If my sow has eight piglets then that's twice as much meat as my family can eat... so either I sell the weaners off, or find a way to sell them after slaughter.


  • #3
    agriman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭agriman


    Hi Danjkin,
    Just wondering if you had any luck with this? It's something I had thought about doing too but haven't yet looked into. What part of the country are you in?


  • #4
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,224 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    oh's cousin started off with a few pigs, he is on face book and twitter The whole hoggs. He has tamworths and sells their meat in honest2goodness market in Dublin and from home.


  • #5
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    whelan2 wrote: »
    oh's cousin started off with a few pigs, he is on face book and twitter The whole hoggs. He has tamworths and sells their meat in honest2goodness market in Dublin and from home.

    Nice lad. Very easy to talk to. :)


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