pigs slaughter - not for the squeamish. Be warned!

[StephenLee]

Any of you actuallyvSLAUGHTER for a living?
It aint a hobby,aint just for fun.
This is about real live animals.
I do it for a living.
You all tell me what happens when an animal goes into lairage. You know what Lairage is dont you?

You will be telling me next that I can no longer perform surgery next just because I'm a Chartered Accountant.

Lairage is the holding pen prior to slaughter. The animals are monitored by Welfare Officers. In a larger abattoir it acts as a 'reservoir' or buffer to keep the line moving.

Get a grip man and stop posting in such an offensive and discourteous manner.

Stephen

If you wre a chartered accountant you would be crunching numbers not performing surgery,thats a worrying post because I AM a slaughterman. I am Not a Chartered Accountant.

Hey Dude,

Take a chill pill.

Paragraph 1 of my post was humorous. Go here for a definition of Humorous in case you have difficulty with the concept :- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humorous

Paragraph 2 was an answer to a question posed in an earlier post.

Paragraph 3 was the most important bit of the post that you seem to not understand and have ignored.

Congratulations on being a slaughter-man. If you did want to be a Chartered Accountant go here for advice :- http://www.icslearn.co.uk/interests/accountancy.aspx It's a great life even thought I wanted to be a lion tamer (I've got my own chair and everything)

Stephen

[scoobie]

With what exactly? NOTHING in this thread is illegal, or promoting illegal activity.

I have even linked to the guidance published by the food standards agency, which provides information on the law covering the home slaughter of livestock.

Here it is again, in case you missed it the first time:

http://www.food.gov.uk/foodindustry/gui ... kguidance/

The specific example applicable for home slaughter, for own and family consumption states:

Home slaughter by the farmer for his own consumption and/or that of his immediate family living in the same household

24. This is lawful. As the farmer does not, in these circumstances, act as a food business operator, the EU Food Hygiene Regulations do not apply. However home slaughter does fall within the scope of the WASK, the TSE and animal by-products (ABP) Regulations. So animals must be slaughtered humanely, SRM must be removed, stained and disposed of as a category 1 animal by-product. Cattle requiring BSE testing must test negative before consumption.

All of the above. The above has been drawn from the web.

Tell me what SRM. Is? I know.
And this is why this job should not be left to "River Cottage "experts.
Specified Risk Material.
Stick to your own profession.

Seriously mate, there is no need to talk to me like that. Adjust your aggressive and quite frankly rude attitude or do one. Simple.

[Carrot Cruncher]

Good grief

@ jansman

This whole site is about learning the right ways of doing things for yourself and not relying on others to do it for you...thats the whole ethos of being a prepper dont you think ? Where on here has anyone told the OP to watch a couple of youtube clips and go a slaughter his pigs ?

Instead of ranting and raving and threats to report the thread to the authorities, why not offer to show the OP how you would do it with all your "30 years of experience", offer to go round and help him, or at the very least point him in the direction of a course he can do.

The OP asked a simple question that is (or should be) relevant to people interested in survival and prepping......I bet he wished he hadn't bothered now

Survival will be a miserable, grim, dirty and harsh business following any big event, those who think they will live is some sort of fantasy agrarian garden of eden need a reality check.

[the-gnole]

Good to see some common sense posting from some of the members, an interesting sig line I read on here.

It is not the fittest that survives,but the one most adabtable to change:Charles Darwin.

And it's jansmans,

[diamond lil]

So Fosscool has his info, links to the relevant legal stuff and plenty advice. That's great and thank you all !
We have lots of commonsense members and we have very lively discussion which is a good thing. This is not a stuffy site with a lot of rules, I like that.
Gnoley, that comes over as very much a playground snigger. I'm sure you didnt meant it to.

[StephenLee]

If I could veer slightly off-topic for a moment, I am hoping to slaughter one of my beef cattle this weekend and are not sure how to proceed.

My current plan is to try and knock it over with the Land Rover and then hack at it with my Swiss Army knife.

Am I on the right lines?

Stephen

[itsybitsy]

If I could veer slightly off-topic for a moment, I am hoping to slaughter one of my beef cattle this weekend and are not sure how to proceed.

My current plan is to try and knock it over with the Land Rover and then hack at it with my Swiss Army knife.

Am I on the right lines?

Stephen

OK, enough now, please.

[StephenLee]

Ok, Sorry.

Stephen

[the-gnole]

Gnoley, that comes over as very much a playground snigger. I'm sure you didnt meant it to.

Now would I be so insensitive , good to see you do actually read my posts Lil, I thought you would have had me on your ignore list by now

[Technik]

Everyone just breeeeaaathee....
There is always more than one side of each story and everyone has different views on life because we have different backgrounds.
In my opinion slaughter of animals shouldn't be discussed online and just because it's legal it doesn't mean it's right. You can point the person in the right direction, eg. courses, experienced slaughterman, etc. but not show pictures/videos and say "this is where you hit the head with your axe to chop it off...." There are a lot of things that you can learn from others online that could be usefull post SHTF but slaughter of animals doesn't belong here. It's a usefull skill if you're a meat eater but that should be learnt properly. And it's not just the welfare of the animals but the person's intending to eat it too. Imagine what would happen if a whole family ate beef for dinner that went bad/got infected and noone noticed and YOU have given the advice on how to kill the cow and prepare the meat....
There are too many weird people out there.