[Southfields]

Any suggestions for Oxfordshire?  Also - on the possibly controversial point of castrating, do slaughter houses usually accept non-castrated lambs for meat?  I thought they didn't but someone said recently they thought it was OK?

I have sent castrated and entire lambs for slaughter with no problems.

Regards Slaughterhouses we have used one in Frome and had no problems.

[daddymatty82]

im in swindon but only use bromham based stiles's just outside chippenham

[Freddiesfarm]

Chris Trott is your man Shearling - he has been doing ours for years and he is great.  He will hang it and butcher it for you and bag it and if you are unsure of what you want he can advise.

We used snells once and didn't get our meat back, plus it smells of death.  Same thing with Stillmans when they "lost" our red ruby devon bullock!  Hopkins are fine and they didn't s**t it was just someone stirring things although I think perhaps they had got a little lax over some things.  The scandal was when the slaughter suck lambs for some muslim or hindu festival and local press got upset, but I've never had a problem there.

[Smashy and gang]

Hi DaddyMatty - we're in North Oxfordshire - bit far for Chippenham unless you know anywhere nearer?  A local farm with onsite butchery has offered to take the lambs (alive) and return them slaughtered and butchered which may be our best option, esp as we don't have a trailer for moving them round the countryside.

[shearling]

Many thanks everyone. I will get in touch with Chris

[Rosemary]

Any suggestions for Oxfordshire?  Also - on the possibly controversial point of castrating, do slaughter houses usually accept non-castrated lambs for meat?  I thought they didn't but someone said recently they thought it was OK?

We don't castrate our lambs and the abattoir is fine about it.

[lachlanandmarcus]

we took an uncastrated lamb along with the castrates and they were no prob, he had horns too and by request we got those back

[princesspiggy]

I got to say Im finding this thread rather disturbing....

i dunno...we have a few skulls on our walls, just what we found in the woods, but we think theyr great....lol