Game on - A Pheasant present

 Ged 'The Cycling Bear' shows me how to breast a pheasant he started by removing the chest feathers 

So you can see what you have 

Cut down the breast-bone as shown

Removing the breast fillet

Ged has been a great help in teaching me the ways of the land and I am very grateful to have a friend with so much knowledge of animal husbandry and outdoor activities who is always up for helping out.

The Boar Arrives!

So I set off to Ampthill to pick up 'Percy the Boar', a lovely Saddleback... A great hog if I might say so myself. Percy is my first sow companion and is known to have great offspring which is just what I'm looking for, hopefully this means lots of saddlebacks ready for next Summer.

The last of my weaners went over  to Hitchin today,  so no more piggies at home in the back garden.  I'll now be able to start sorting out the veg patch for next year.


Last Saturday was a bad day for us as I came back home to find 5 dead chooks... the fox got into the back yard and killed half our brood so we relocated the remaining ones to the green house until I'm able to build a new chook run.

 With less than 500 registered breeding females, the breed is classed as ‘At Risk

Merry Christmas!

Thanks to all who have supported and bought from Maranito over the last four mouths.  We'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

Andre, Jane & Santi

NOW the Freeze...

A magical day 

How to order

Pork can be ordered by whole, half and quarter carcass – butchered to your specifications. Or as individual cuts. 

Whole Pig: Approx. 40-60kgs @ £8.00/kg butchered to your specifications. (To see examples please see half and quarter pig below)

Half Pig: Approx. 20-30kgs @ £8.00/kg [one shoulder to roast, either whole or cut in half, one leg to roast either whole or cut in half, belly (either as a 2-3 roasts and/or cut as spare ribs),loin either as 1 or 2 roasting joints and/or cut as chops, liver, kidney and two trotters, and bones.]

Quarter Pig: Approx. 9-15kgs @ £8.00/kg [half shoulder roast, half a leg roast, half the bell (either as a roast or spare ribs), half the loin either as a roasting joint or cut as chops, liver, and one trotter and bones].

We can also offer a whole hog for roasting please ask for further details.


A Pork box
can consisting of :- kg Leg Joint of Pork kg Spare Ribs, Joint of Pork, kg Pork Chops 2kg Sliced strips of Belly Pork kg Assorted Varieties of Sausage 


Individual Cuts: 

Shoulder               

Steak                               

Loin Chop           

Rack of Ribs       

Belly Rolled Joint  

Back Leg:       

Roasting Cuts:

Collar Joint        

Spare Ribs          

Leg Joint or Steak        

Mini Leg Joint      

Belly Joint         

Sausages            

Chipolatas 

Please contact either:

Andre: andrecardona@mac.com  07958 655962 or 

Jane:  missjaneevans@gmail.com  07730 910643

Helping Conservation - by eating the produce of rare breeds it encourages more people to keep more of them and therefore you will be helping us to save rare breeds.

Snow arrives!

A beautiful site for me my family and herd. I'm really enjoying working the land and the changes in seasons. Lots going on at the moment, I'm looking forward to enjoying more in the Spring right now it seems as if as soon as you sort one thing out something else comes up just to keep me on my toes...

Gisele and Mildred our two sows are awaiting a Saddleback boar 

and now respect the electric fence.

Gisele is much more alert  than Mildred as she's able to see all due to her pricked ears...

Inside a water tub, I'm having to hand ball water at the moment as all the pipes are frozen.

Defrosting trough

You can see that the GOS like all our herd have course bristle hair, they're very hardy swine...

Feeding time.

I've now got them trained to get into this formation when I tell them to.... Performing piggies anyone?