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Invoice for the slaughter and butchering of two pigs.

£93.70 to kill a pig

1 September, 2011 by Stonehead 12 Comments

The invoice from Millers of Speyside for slaughtering and butchering our most recent batch of Berkshire pigs arrived in this morning’s post. The slaughter charge was £48.00. The QMS levy was £2.52, plus VAT.

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A Berkshire porker loaded ready for the trip to the abattoir.

Two pigs for the abattoir

25 August, 2011 by Stonehead 2 Comments

I took two finished Berkshire pigs on their trip to the abattoir today. It was a reasonably quick, straightforward trip for a change as the weather was good, there were few tractors or trucks on the rural roads I use and the Land Rover was running well. As an added bonus, the abattoir changed the [...]

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Abattoir costs rise, again

17 August, 2011 by Stonehead 12 Comments

When I booked two finished Berkshire pigs in with our abattoir, Millers of Speyside, this morning I was told I’d be sent an email with new paperwork to complete. When the email arrived, the paperwork included a new schedule of charges for private slaughter. I wasn’t expecting a rise, so I was more than a [...]

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Now the butcher stops doing our pigs

2 March, 2011 by Stonehead 10 Comments

Having sorted out a new abattoir to take our pigs, I phoned our butcher this morning to confirm a new date. He hesitated, umm-ed and aah-ed, then said they’d decided they couldn’t be bothered doing the butchering any longer. I was astonished.

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Now where do we get our pigs slaughtered?

28 January, 2011 by Stonehead 27 Comments

I walked into the village this morning to buy some steak mince to make mince and tatties for the Wee ‘Un’s birthday dinner. While I was at the butcher, I thought I’d warn him I was expecting have a pair of porkers ready for slaughter in three or four weeks time and would need them [...]

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