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Community => Marketplace => Crafts & Gifts for sale => Topic started by: Mole on December 05, 2013, 05:30:38 pm

Title: Soay sheep local friendly butcher required suffolk
Post by: Mole on December 05, 2013, 05:30:38 pm
Nobody seems to want my sheep and I have too many to go through winter.
Anybody know of a sympathetic butcher who might provide an outlet for Soay sheep or even kill and prepare the meat for my own freezer.
Title: Re: Soay sheep local friendly butcher required suffolk
Post by: shygirl on December 05, 2013, 06:52:04 pm
will your local abattoir/butcher not help you put it in your freezer?
id be suprised if they wont but noone will do it in december.

selling meat privately would be more suited maybe, if butchers wont take it on.
Title: Re: Soay sheep local friendly butcher required suffolk
Post by: sokel on December 05, 2013, 07:06:56 pm
As already said during December private slaughters are almost impossible , our abattoirs last day is the 8th Dec and has been fully booked for weeks, we only got 2 booked in after someone cancelled while we where dropping the cattle off.
Even early January is filling up here 
Title: Re: Soay sheep local friendly butcher required suffolk
Post by: Mole on December 18, 2013, 08:12:21 pm
Sheep now sold
Title: Re: Soay sheep local friendly butcher required suffolk
Post by: shygirl on December 18, 2013, 08:14:29 pm
on the hoof?  or did you find a butcher?