Having problems lately catching enough haggis to meet demand.Would controlled farming be the way to go?

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Having problems lately catching enough haggis to meet demand.Would controlled farming be the way to go?

Answer 1

I'll sell you some steep up-land here in America. It'd be perfect for haggis.

PS, I agree with the alcohol, actually  the only time I ever seed  haggis was one time...down by thet old still, thar, o' Old Hank Hawkins hisself, and we were drunk enough to eat cans o' Alpo fer sure. It were on tha side of a big hill an', I'll be durned, iffin a whole flock of them thar haggis did'n come a huffin and a puffin 'round thet hillside, took one look at us an' run plum' away. Yup enough alcohol will increase yer chances....

Answer 2

NOT VERY FUNNY.

Answer 3

as long as your farm isn't too close to Loch Ness , Nessie loves haggis.

Answer 4

Tell me about it I was shooting haggis last weekend & never got one of the little beggers!!

Answer 5

Are the sheep that fast??

Answer 6

no i prefer free range and i like to remove the tusks myself

Answer 7

Have you tried rocket propelled nets like the ones they use to catch birds? I suspect you may be using traps. These are not very efficient as they can tear the little blighters skin as I'm sure you are aware.

I think controlled farming is cruel, confining the young haggis to tiny cages and feeding them exclusively on neaps is not only barbaric, it also adversely affects the flavour.

Good luck.

Answer 8

The real difficulty is the length of season when it legal to kill the little blighters.

You will, of course, be aware that the haggis is protected by the Conservation of the Countryside (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1706. And that Section 93(1)(f) makes it illegal to kill a haggis for gain or consumption other than "twixt the hours of ten in the morning and eight in the evening between the Sunday following the first Full Moon in the month of February and the Thursday before the next Harvest Moon".

You will recall that a changes to this legislation were laid before the Scottish Parliament last year by the Monster Raving Loony Party (known as the Scottish Labour Party south of the border), but that this attempt failed miserably because the party bosses were out collecting donations for Peter Hain's think tank.

Under the Act of 1706 is repealed, I see little benefit in the controlled farming that you propose, although logically, this would be solution to the problem

Answer 9

If you breed the ones with short legs they find it impossible to jump over gates and fences.

Answer 10

Perhaps you're using the wrong bait.I trap 'em with whisky and lemonade,bloats the stomach of the sheep,then more neeps and taties go in!

Answer 11

Wild haggis have longer legs on one side than the other because they always face the same way when they graze on the hillside.  You catch them by jumping up in front of them shouting something in Gallic - they turn to run away and fall down the hill.  Farmed haggis have all legs the same length - not the same thing at all.

Answer 12

Personally every time I see a Haggis (or smell one) I very, very quietly slink out in the OPPOSITE direction, and when I'm far enough away, I RUN.

Haggis are not something to be triffled with!  The only way one could go about properly handling a Haggis is with EXTREMELY liberal amounts of alchohol.

If you have applied enough alchohol, you should be able to consume Alpo dirrectly from the can.  At that point have several more applications of alchohol, and THEN try to tackle the Haggis.

I'm fairly certain the bribes you would have to pay the inspectors to allow you to raise Haggis via controlled farming would be self defeating, and not allow you to make enough profit from the Haggis.

Ah...the days of my youth.  I remember being astride my horse and going on a Wild Haggis Hunt.  No wait....that was for Snipe.

Well, either way, good luck on your Haggis adventure.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 13

Waitrose have plenty of free range organically reared haggis for sale.

Did you know they are kept in pens with very tall fencing as they are known to bounce quite high in attempts to escape.

Answer 14

Isn't one leg shorter than the other, making them run in circles? I'd say go for controlled farming, it saves Nessie getting at them if you farm them all in a secure area.

Answer 15

Hmmmm........How exactly do you catch haggis?

Answer 16

The three legged haggis is still common enough, but the Haggis royale, that's the one with longer legs on one side so it can graze on the steep highland hills, is getting very hard to come by. But they are so hard to breed on a factory basis, they keep falling off the perches. Perhaps cloning is the way forward?

Answer 17

you could try breeding them in captivity but the flavour is no where near as strong as the wild ones.

the trick is to try to chase the clockwise haggis anticlockwise

and the anticlockwise haggis clockwise

as you are probably aware, the clockwise breed have longer left legs toi keep them more stable when running clockwise round scottish mountains the anticlockwise variete have longer right hand legs

simply frighten each breed into running in the opposite direction - this causes such instability that they fall over and roll to the bottom of the hill all that remains is to tie their legs together and have them slaughtered by a reputable haggis butcher

Answer 18

You need to start farming them on hills - the one leg longer than the other thing really slows them down :)

Answer 19

Learn to play the bagpipes,works every time.(Remember The Pied Piper?)Haggis are very patriotic and i found Scotland the Brave worked wonders,they used to follow me anywhere.

Answer 20

employ a peabroch that way you will find it can sniff haggis out at 500 paces.