Lamb carcases
Posted: Monday 28 November, 2011
I drove down to St Andrew's last week to have a look at our lamb carcases before they were butchered. I thought they looked pretty good compared to the others in the chill.
Ryeland lamb carcases
There was the most enormous cattle beast - it looked like a whale. A half weighed 208kg, so the live animal was probably in the region of 700kg. There were some huge turkeys too - 17 and 19kg. I don't think they would fit in our oven 
Ryeland lamb carcase
Anyway, we should get the butchered lambs back this week - looking forward to it 
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Comments
Rosemary
Thanks, Neil. The butcher said they were beautifully marbled, but were "a bit rich" i.e. fat. I should have had them away a month earlier.
I picked them up today and have just divvied them up for our customers so most are gone now. The five weighed 105kg dead weight; one was a big, early born single but the other four were pretty even sized.
Hope the customers like the lamb - and come back for more next year :-)
james
I also keep Ryelands and have some tup lambs 6 months old. Do you have a local abattoire and how do you feel they treat the lambs.?
Rosemary
We use St Andrew's abattoir - it's about 25 miles away. TBH, I've never been but Dan's always been happy with the way they handle our lambs.
Dan
Yes, always been happy with St. Andrew's, which couldn't be said for our previous abattoir, at least when it came to the handling of pigs.
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Neil
Friday 2 December, 2011 at 1:31pm
Very nice, i hope mine look that good when I get them next year. I also have Ryeland ewes, but have crossed them with a Suffolk tup. Well I've tried to, will know for sure around the middle of March.