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Home-made allspice and chilli sausages, tied into links and waiting to be bagged.

A day of sausage making

16 January, 2012 by Stonehead 6 Comments

Today, I have been mainly making sausages. Lots and lots of sausages.

Pork

Casing (sausage), cooking, Food, Italian sausage, Pork, postaweek2012, Sausage

‘Why can’t we save the pigs?’

14 October, 2011 by Stonehead 8 Comments

There are times when I find it totally exasperating dealing with people’s queries, especially when they’ve dreamt up a “great idea to save the animals” and want me to endorse it without saying a word about total silliness of said great idea. The most recent of these great ideas, similar to something that first appeared on [...]

Pigs

Animal welfare, Crofting, Downsizer, Farming, Livestock, pig, Pork, postaweek2011, Smallholding

Tesco ad hits a snag

14 September, 2011 by Stonehead 10 Comments

The Advertising Standards Agency has banned an advertisement for Tesco sausages on the basis that it misleads the public into thinking the pigs used to make the sausages are “free-range”. The advert for the supermarket’s own-brand Butcher’s Choice Sausages showed pigs roaming in a field and walking freely in a barn. The ASA said pigs [...]

Crofting, Farming & Smallholding

advertising, Advertising Standards Authority, agriculture, Farming, pig, Pork, postaweek2011, Sausage, Tesco

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.

Berkshire pigs

Abattoir, agriculture, Berkshire pigs, costs, Crofting, Featured, Pigs, Pork, postaweek2011, Slaughter, Smallholding

One of our boxes of butchered Berkshire pork.

Pedigree Pork ready now

29 August, 2011 by Stonehead 6 Comments

We have two boxes of butchered Berkshire Pedigree Pork available this week. One box contains a butchered half pig, costing £160 with a guaranteed minimum of 20kg of pork (£8 per kilogram). Typically, the weight is around 22.5kg (£7.11 per kilogram). The other contains a butchered quarter pig, costing £80 with a guaranteed minimum weight of 10kg. [...]

Berkshire pigs, Pork

Berkshire pigs, Crofting, Pigs, Pork, postaweek2011, Smallholding

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