Pigfarmer
After the foxes fell through I bought a fishing boat and traversed back and forth between top end QLD and New Guinea..after that I went to New Zealand and ran a Caravan Park near Taupua and then sold that and bought a Charter Boat..Sasha Charters ,shot deer over there...Ive purchased land in Qld and now Im back in Australia for a bit..

Been out to Borrooloola couple months ago croc hunting and sleeping in trees has its challenges I can tell you..Got a few buffallo as well.

Im thinking of buying a farm back in NZ and running a few cattle but taking a rest now with family here in Victoria .Ive never really taken a rest and I dont know if Ill take to farming but I need to settle for a few years, find a nice woman.

Pigfarming not for me Im afraid .

Pigfarmer,

I would have swapped a couple of stories with you about the old days but after a read of your above post seems like I have somehow got caught up in this thing you have on here with other posters,
so Ill just leave it I think.
Im heading out soon anyway but nice to meet you all and take it easy ay?

"Until all farmers denounce both these barbaric practices,"

antje and wendy umm dickie, you are free to chant away about live
exports, 1080, or whatever else is the bee in your bonnet of the
day, but so are any other housewives, so are the Hare Krishna.
That does not mean that too many will take much notice, until
you start producing rational arguments, not just emotive
rhetoric or dreams.

There are many reasons why the live trade exists. Whether its
cruel or not, I'd prefer to leave to qualified people such as the
AVA to judge, rather then some housewives on the gold coast.
Fact is, the feedlot industry is here to stay in Australia, right
now its actually preventing alot of suffering, given the near
Australia wide drought. If feedlots are legal, you will have a hard
time showing why floating feedlots should not be. Emotive rhetoric
won't get you over the line, in a rational world.

Yes 1080 is used in the baiting of some foxes and particularly wild
dogs. Nobody has so far come up with a better realistic option,
even though I gather CSIRO are working on one. 1080 is still a
naturally occuring poison in WA, it even grows alongside roadsides,
so local species have some immunity to it, unlike many other poisons.

Now if you ask me if its better to bait wild dogs with 1080, given
no viable other option apart from letting them rip livestock to bits
ad lib, yup I am completely in favour of it, it results in less
suffering overall

I have spent the last few days in one of our capital cities – land of the intensively farmed human. Its been a long time since I ventured near this many of them.

Yesterday I spent the day at Seaworld – watched these people ohh and arrhh over animals in little pens and pools. Cueing and squashing one another to get to the feed (kiosk)

Today I sat on an artificial beach (chlorine water and all – did have sand) these people stacked on top of one another. The roar of the surf – well nearly, it was the freeway across the river.

No wonder city people don’t seem to have a problem with intensively farming animal. They live that way themselves.

Tomorrow I am off to a ‘farmer’s market’ in the middle of Brisbane. Wonder what that translates to in the city?

Yabby,

Dont waste your time mate..this lot have lost the plot:)

A question to Butcherbob..are you a butcher by trade:) if so Id like a few tips in this area in relation to dressing a side of pig.

Any tips you have would be great.