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JulieS

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Devon - EX39 5RF
    • Ford Mill Farm
Butchery
« on: April 14, 2011, 08:36:06 am »
I've just put some pictures of our butchery on Facebook if you would like to take a look.

Hope this link works!


https://www.facebook.com/album.php?fbid=1977378111522&id=1155200770&aid=2114849&l=65f4285dc7
Pedigree GOS Pigs and Butchery for Smallholders.

loosey

  • Joined May 2010
  • Cornwall
Re: Butchery
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2011, 09:09:17 am »
 :o :o I am in sanely jealous!! :D

We have an outhouse we wanted to turn into a butchery but we ran out of storage space too fast! We're still lugging deer carcasses through the house and butchering on my dining room table! ::)

Eve

  • Joined Jul 2010
Re: Butchery
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2011, 05:35:02 pm »
We can only dream of that, oh lucky you!  :wave:

JulieS

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Devon - EX39 5RF
    • Ford Mill Farm
Re: Butchery
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2011, 05:48:23 pm »
Really lucky that my husband was able to do all the building work.....and now does the butchery.  He does a great job, and I'm the one who is in charge of sausages and bacon  :)
Pedigree GOS Pigs and Butchery for Smallholders.

Billy Rhomboid

  • Joined Sep 2010
Re: Butchery
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2011, 06:55:02 pm »
Also very envious. Looks a super setup.

princesspiggy

  • Guest
Re: Butchery
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2011, 07:55:13 pm »
thats great, another thing for my wishlist   ;D

Olly398

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Herts
    • Brixton's Bounty
Re: Butchery
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2011, 01:25:28 pm »
Oh, that really does look superb! I am green about the gills. Well done!!
also blogging at...

      Brixton's Bounty

JulieS

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Devon - EX39 5RF
    • Ford Mill Farm
Re: Butchery
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2011, 07:24:52 pm »
Thank you all  :) :)

If you are ever around this area you are very welcome to pop in to take a look.
Pedigree GOS Pigs and Butchery for Smallholders.

Blinkers

  • Joined Jan 2008
  • Carmarthenshire
  • Carmarthenshire/Pembrokeshire border
    • Glyn Elwyn - Faithmead Herd
    • Facebook
Re: Butchery
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2011, 10:46:02 am »
Wow - seriously impressed.  ;D
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again !!
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HappyHippy

  • Guest
Re: Butchery
« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2011, 03:26:04 pm »
WOW ! I'm jealous too  ;D Looks the biz  ;)
Julie,
How receptive were your local council & environmental health guys ? Was it a struggle or were they okay ? and is the big walk in chiller a requirement or do you just prefer it to standard freezers/fridges ?
Sorry for all the questioning  :-[ I'm hoping to do something along the same lines eventually, so just wanting the low-down before I contact the 'official ones' who must be obayed  ::) ;) ;D
Thanks,
Karen x  :wave:

JulieS

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Devon - EX39 5RF
    • Ford Mill Farm
Re: Butchery
« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2011, 07:41:02 pm »
Not a problem with the questions Karen.

The local council and environmental health have been really good.  We invited them around before we started to talk through what we planned and they suggested a few things.  They have been very helpful right from the start.

I would say it is well worth contacting them before you do anything. 

I'm not sure you would be able to cope with just standard fridges if you are cutting whole pigs.  You would need somewhere to hang the carcasses when you bring them back from the abattoir.

I have 3 standard freezers in another part of the building which I use to store pork and lamb.

Hope this helps, let me know if I can answer anything else.   :)

Pedigree GOS Pigs and Butchery for Smallholders.

HappyHippy

  • Guest
Re: Butchery
« Reply #11 on: April 16, 2011, 08:06:00 pm »
That's brill Julie - thanks  :-*
I'm hoping/expecting that the abbatoir (which is linked to a butchers) will hang the carcase's and chop them into halves or quarters for me to take home - but since hubby has seen your walk in chiller, he now wants one  ::)
Might be a good idea - I could lock him or the kids in it to chill them out  ;) ;D
Karen x

robert waddell

  • Guest
Re: Butchery
« Reply #12 on: April 16, 2011, 08:09:56 pm »
they are fitted with inside release mechanisms to prevent just that situation arising :wave:

HappyHippy

  • Guest
Re: Butchery
« Reply #13 on: April 16, 2011, 09:42:48 pm »
they are fitted with inside release mechanisms to prevent just that situation arising :wave:
Yeah, nothing a well placed hit with a hammer wouldn't fix  :o ::) :o ;D ;D ;D
I wouldn't...............................................................would I ?  ;)

robert waddell

  • Guest
Re: Butchery
« Reply #14 on: April 16, 2011, 09:51:25 pm »
happy you know my sense of humour                  well we did toy with the MARY ANN MEAT CO before creating MAKIN BACON   (LEE MARVIN IN PRIME CUT) :o :wave:

 

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