Pig Costs
We get a lot of enquiries from people who are thinking of keeping pigs on a small-scale, and wonder how much it will cost. So, we thought it might be helpful to show how our pig enterprise stacks up financially.
At the end of April 2007, we bought two unregistered Tamworth boars for £35 each. We used about 38 bags of feed during their time here; this cost £7.25 per 20kg bag apart from the last couple which cost £7.50. We used about four bales of straw at £2.50 a bale.
The pigs were slaughtered locally in mid October; the cost of slaughter and delivery to our local butcher was £46. The butcher charged us £60 to butcher three halves; one customer wanted his half unbutchered.
We sold the meat for £2.60 per lb of butchered meat - if the head, trotters etc were available, we put them in free of charge. The total income was about £330.
In total our expenditure was about £460, offset by the income of £330, so our whole pig cost about £130:
| Item | Unit cost | No. | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tamworth weaners | £35.00 | 2 | £70.00 |
| Feed | £7.25 | 38 | £275.50 |
| Straw | £2.50 | 4 | £10.00 |
| Slaughter | £23.00 | 2 | £46.00 |
| Butchery | £20 | 3 | £60.00 |
| Total | £461.50 | ||