Can you add/amend the entry for the following:
HMD Butchers, Three Crosses Swansea (Gower) - not recommended.
They don't kill many pigs, or do many private kills of any animal for that matter, mine was often the only pig there. Despite being a weekly customer they failed to tell me their butcher had left, not a problem while I was taking whole carcasses to my customer but became an issue when I needed a kill and partial cut. The vet seemed a bit OTT, I never got heart or liver, just kidneys, despite me asking repeatedly. They even took bits out of the head which the restaurant I sell to wanted. Then they skinned a pig, kept head and trotters too so I was well down on weight. I know it happens but I didn't quite trust their explanation, skin rash apparently, but I got different stories from the different staff and the vet himself. The last straw was when they decided on the morning of slaughter that I wasn't booked in, despite me using them every week and saying I'd see them next week, or telling them if I wasn't going to be there; I forgot to email them this time to confirm but I've phoned on the day with no probs before....Anyway I frantically rang round all local abattoirs and was fitted in same day by...
Cig Caron Oen in Tregaron - how helpful and friendly they were, extremely well priced, and literally saved my bacon that day. Unfortunately they're too far for me to use regularly but I'd give them 5 stars. They get awfully busy, so need to book ahead esp if butchering/sausages etc required.
Oh, PS... HMD had an awful smell, probably the uncovered haulage wagon sitting in the yard in the sun, full of blood and guts, being loaded continuously by the JCB bucket full, which often sloshed out in the yard where you drive in with the live animals...hmmmmmmm
