[The Mobile Butcher]

I recently closed down my butcher business (near Whitby North Yorkshire)
  I am offering my 27 years experience to help out any people in my area (45 mile radius) to assist, advise or butcher their animals on their smallholding. I will come out to you and butcher your cattle sheep or pigs. I have all the equipment. so if you need a hand I hope I can be of service.
Please Email me for more details and prices.
paulsmith0407@aol.com

[andywalt]

I wish you were in kent....can they still sell there meat to the public if you butcher on there land?

[The Mobile Butcher]

The last time I checked the rules ,(this is for on farm slaughter) you are supposed to eat the meat yourself and not sell it on to the public.

[The Mobile Butcher]

just to add to my last post, If your animals are slaughtered in the Abattoir, I am fairly certain you can have them butchered on yr smallholding and you can sell the butchered meat to the public.

[chickenfeed]

i am not 100% sre that is the case i always thought the animal had to be killed and cut on site ie a slaughterhouse/cutting plant, thats what we were told when looking into other butchers cutting for us.

[robert waddell]

27yrs experiance and you are giving false hope on this public forum
first the carcase has to transported in refrigerated van/container
second the carcase has to be butchered on licenced premises
that is the rules in scotland  to enable you to sell to the public

[JulieS]

You can use an abattoir to kill only and then have the carcass transported back to your smallholding.  Then you can butcher yourself, or get someone to help you, but as I understand it you cannot then sell the meat onto other people.  It has to be for your own use.

You can use an abattoir and then have carcass transported to a licensed butchers who can cut and pack your produce for you to sell.  Or you can use the cutting room at your abattoir.

[waterhouse]

I've  been wading through the regulations - OH is going to a EBLEX evening on meat boxes soon - and it's all rather complicated.  The FSA website has been written in a friendly style which completely fails to explain the total horridnous of the underlying EU and Westminster legislation.  But there seems to be an exemption in 852/2004 (don't) which goes

the direct supply, by the producer, of small quantities of primary products to the final consumer or to local retail establishments directly supplying the final consumer;

Meat you produce yourself is a primary product.  I haven't got to the bottom of butchery services however

[robert waddell]

it is meat and hygiene regulations               with that business having full insurance cover in case they sell contaminated meat and meat products

[The Mobile Butcher]

its a mine field of rules and regulations. I am sorry for any confusion. All I was offering was to help any body on their smallholding who was wanting a hand to butcher their meat, and I'm sorry if you think I was giving false hope.
 
I wish you all the best with your smallholding ventures. 

[Mo]

Personally, I don't think you have given false hope. I read it as you were offering to help someone who wanted to butcher their own pig for their own use, and that certainly interested us, although you are a little far away.
I'm sure that there are people out there who would welcome this offer, surely not everyone is driven simply by wanting to sell on their meat?

Just as an aside, there's little point quoting Scottish Law to a guy in Whitby 

[Joe11]

Personally, I don't think you have given false hope. I read it as you were offering to help someone who wanted to butcher their own pig for their own use

Agreed 

[The Mobile Butcher]

many thanks Mo and Joe...... its being chewing me all day thinking I have given people some kind of false hope., I feel better now knowing that at lease 2 people see what I was trying to say, hope you get your meat butchered.
and enjoy it, 

how far away are you ?

[Fleecewife]

<<Just as an aside, there's little point quoting Scottish Law to a guy in Whitby>>
Too true 

Just wanted to say that before we started selling our hogget meat to the general public, we had an ex butcher who chopped our carcasses in our kitchen. We transported them from the abattoir ourselves, but nowadays that wouldn't be possible.  It was a great way to learn so much about our sheep and to improve our husbandry, by looking at the finished product.  One unexpected thing we learned was never to haul sheep around by their wool - our butcher showed us the big bruise on one carcass where that had happened - we have never done that again !!  So I think that what Paul is offering is an extremely valuable service, much more than just the basic butchering, although that will be a big help to someone.  I so wish you were not so far away Paul, as we don't sell to the public any more and our previous butcher friend is no longer doing that.  Good luck with your new venture.

[robert waddell]

HO HUM HERE WE GO AGAIN                    

just to add to my last post, If your animals are slaughtered in the Abattoir, I am fairly certain you can have them butchered on yr smallholding and you can sell the butchered meat to the public.

that was the part that i refereed to the false hope  not your idea of assisting others with butchering/cutting if you are quite happy carting round your stainless work tables/bowls/mincer/sausage stuffer/chopping block and knifes just how and if you could fit them all in a kitchen especially if you are cutting cattle as well beats me(in all my 57 years i have only seen one kitchen that could accommodate all this equipment) if you are happy cutting meat in obviously low hygiene surroundings just you get wired in and ignore other comments on this forum