We’ve been sausage making again. This time using one pork hand, one slab of pork belly, and all the bit and pieces saved from the butchery day. Delish.
We also set aside enough sausage meat for the chestnut stuffing for that winter festival thingy, and another lot for sausage rolls. Homemade sausage rolls are always so [...]
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pork sausages
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 10 November 2009 | 6 Comments »
half hour hard labour
Posted in general wittering, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency on 17 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a glorious sunny day.
We dug, cleaned out animal housing, stacked logs, fixed drains, cut grass and socialized.
We have a new technique for getting the never ended grim jobs done . Half hour slots. So we have been dragging the last of last year’s hedge trimmings out of the field, cutting off the bonfire material, [...]
is it worth it?
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding on 14 October 2009 | 5 Comments »
When raising animals for food, and eggs, or growing veg, it always has to be questioned whether it is actually worth it, financially and effortwise.
Well I think it is on many levels.
Financially, it is. But it depends what you take into account – I have seen so many times the question on a forum; “how [...]
weighing pigs
Posted in livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged Berkshire pigs, pigs on 30 September 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sometime ago, I asked on someone’s blog how you weighed a pig. We weighed a lamb once.. and that was hilariously amateur… it involved the bathroom scales taken out to the field, and himself holding said lamb in his arms whilst the ewe glared and bleated at him furiously, until we put him back down [...]
first fire
Posted in general wittering, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency on 25 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
Cold today, and this evening we lit the wood burner for the first time, since spring.
We also ate the first of the pork – tasty!
butchery day
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged pigs on 23 September 2009 | 8 Comments »
Today himself had a day off, I set up lots of stuff for our son to do home education wise, and we spent most of the day cutting up pigs.
It was lots of fun, and very very satisfying. It’s not too fatty (apparently normal for first time pig keepers) and there is certainly lots of [...]
the pigs are gone
Posted in grow your own food, home education, livestock, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables on 21 September 2009 | 4 Comments »
Loading them up was a little difficult – our cunning arrangement of outer gate meets inner gate, forming new path to the waiting trailer worked a treat, and not having been fed before they were well up for a few scattered pig nuts, but the ramp of the trailer put them off. Note to self: [...]
animal husbandry day
Posted in chickens, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding on 20 September 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today we killed and dressed and jointed the three cockerels, which are nearly 19 weeks (I miscalculated before) – a little early but two of them were crowing so much it was bothering me, nevermind the neighbours (who have not complained yet, and we would like it to stay that way!). A little skinny but not [...]
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