Keeping pigs

[sherrardk]

Sorry, didn't know where to put this - animals & nature or food & drink so I opted for CB. Anyway, anyone have any experience or knowledge of what's involved in keeping pigs with the idea of eventually eating them- cost of feed, any paper work that needs to be done, etc. (I am squeamish so please don't put anything about the actual turning of pig into sausages, etc.) Thanks.

[NazNomad]

"... how many sausages we go through in one meal ..."

If that's for real, don't get pigs.

[mrs.chappie]

I could never do it as I'd not be able to send them to slaughter. I'm far too soft.

[boxtops]

Looking at that programme tonight about a young man working on a farm, it seems to involve a vast amount of shovelling liquid pigpoo - and pigpoo smells really bad, as we know when they spray it on the fields near us...

[sherrardk]

Right, he's gone of the idea of keeping pigs, his new plan is to buy half of a dead one and butcher it himself! Mid life crisis alert.