ryaldinhio

Soon be time for the girls to go. 21wks now. As much as I like having em about I'm ready for a freezer full of joints and sausages!!! For scale that 'trough' is 300x100 trunking

I live at doncaster and we have quite a big market still, and a large fish market, there have been carp on there for years now. I remember being shocked by it first time I saw it and must be 10yrs+ that. It's normal to so many societies in the world, just not us

I'm not sure to be honest. The fish iteslf was actually really nice but it still doesn't feel right. I need to have a word with myself and see. I've been brought up fishing from being a kid and taught that all fish need to be handled with love and care unless they are trout or from saltwater, they go int pot......mad really isn't it. What's difference between a carp and owt else other than perception? But I also know I have 200-300 carp at 3-4lb at my finger tips so thats a ridiculous amount of food if I can get my head around it as part of the whole thing we are doing!

Ive done a few posts on here over the years but this post is guna split the room more than any other...... I have a pond that I lease, about 2-2.5 acre. When I took it on I was told there was nothing in it so I put 300 little carp in, C1s, which means first summer, so they were basically 2-3inches long. It turned out that there was some originals in the pond....which if I had known I wouldn't have stocked anything to start! Couple yrs on and the 2-3inch carp are now 3-4lb but getting lean as it is over stocked. I've made the descision to 'get rid' of some. Gifting to frien

Thats what stopped me with sheep last time, I was warned they are suicidal manic depressive! I registered for goats but been told they can be hard work to keep in!

I have a field I'm considering putting some lambs on but will need to spend some on fencing so I need to do the math on how many I would need to cover costs etc.

Last time I traded half a pig for a full lamb, I wouldn't do it again. A lot more meat in half a pig. I'm considering getting a couple lambs myself to fatten up.

My workings from last time You feed 1lb a day for every month of age up to 6m/6lb. Got the pigs at 2m so roughly.... 3rd month 3lb day = 90lb 4th month 4lb day = 120lb 5th month 5lb day =150lb 6th month 6lb day = 180lb So 540lb feed. Pig nuts in 25kg sacks roughly 55lb so say 10 sacks feed. I pay £12.50 a sack so £125 feed per pig to get at 2m and cull at the end of the 6th month. I had 2 pigs: £100 for the weaners £250 in feed £186.50 slaughter and butcher (that included £70 for sausages) Total £536.50 I didn't actually sp

The meat is next level compared to anything from shop or butchers

Yeah will take all 3 at once. These are 4.5month now, probably keep em another month and get em done before Xmas. My last ones I kept until Jan and was loads of fat on em, which is just wasted feed and money. They reckon anything from 20weeks. Mine are 18wk now.

They look plenty big enough pal. I'm ready for mine to go already, not that they are having bother, I just prefer it when the freezers are full!!!

Wouldn't say no to that!

Yes mate, it definitely does lead to conflict, especially at that level needed 2 strong minded people. I'm over it now, I'm delivering the biggest single contract the company has ever had at around £11.5m. The 2 promoted are sharing the rest of the little jobs between them....... the fact there was no contest for who was delivering this scheme shows me what the big bosses actually think. It was actually also one of the reasons they stated, they didn't want to remove me from this scheme. This scheme will be around 30% of the company's turnover so it is the most important role anyway.

Yep, nail on the head. I challenge them and they don't want that.