I had a nice chat with a lady on the phone at Munros last week. She told me offal would be no problem, I just had to ask the guy to keep it when I dropped off the pigs. She said that blood might not be so straight forward but they would try.
Yesterday I took the pigs in and asked for offal and blood. I was told to come back 3 hours later for the offal. The guy doing it said blood might be a problem as they kill them on the floor so it is hard to catch it.
After spending the morning kicking my heels in DIngwall we went back to the abattoir and were told that they didn't manage to get any blood and that we could not have any offal as they are not allowed to release it unless it has been sent away to be tested for tricinella (sp), to do this requires organising it in advance.
I was pretty annoyed that
1) a whole load of offal will be thrown away meaning that Spencer, Abe and Franz were not fully utilised.
2) despite asking on the phone in advance and on the day, we were not told we couldn't get all of our pigs back so so wasted a morning hanging about waiting.
3) I was really looking forward to making black pudding, haggis and pate - what am I now going to do with 3kg of suet in the cupboard?
Next year I am tempted to do them myself.