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Author Topic: Air dried ham covered in unhatched fly eggs & flies - looks like inside damp  (Read 4427 times)

farmers wife

  • Joined Jul 2009
  • SE Wales
Bugger, the outside looked mouldy and it wasnt been cold over winter.  Looks like a fly had laid loads of eggs which had fallen into the second covering and died out. The muslin cover had got damp from the ham.


Today decided to check it and loads of eggs.  A few eggs tucked into the flesh and using a torch it looks damp and smells ok-ish but dont know whether to dump it now.


Living on a farm has plenty of flies but unsure whether I can make a ham like this here unless I had a special box made.


Whats your thoughts on this?


cloddopper

  • Joined Jun 2013
  • South Wales .Carmarthenshire. SA18
Give me a few days of time to get some photos together of my air drying meat safe which is a 310 litre  blue food grade food barrel,  that sits on a four wheeled dolly so I can move it around and I'll also take some pictures of the fly screen and anti fox/dog protection screen .

 Mean while PM me an email address that can take about 10 large attachments

Dave
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Sudanpan

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • West Cornwall
    • Movement is Life
We had some fly problems with a couple of our air-dried hams - lots of maggots and pupae casings in the muslin. TBH I just left the hams until their time was up and then cut out/off any suspect looking meat - it is very obvious what is ok and what is not!
Good luck

 

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