[BALLOCH]

Well got 3 zwartbles going to abatoir this week ,just wondered what the going rate is this year for 1/2 and a whole lamb,they should be a good 20 kilo dead weight!

[jaykay]

I can charge £10 per kilo for half a lamb, selling it directly.

[ShaunP]

I have just done a couple that where 19kg dead weight for £120 per lamb.

[Foobar]

£50-£60 per half, depending on your client base

[zwartbles]

Zwartbles produce a really tasty meat. Very little fat and good texture. The best results are obtained if you keep them through the winter and wait until their weight starts to increase in the late spring. Then they are even tastier !!
We have no problem getting £8.50 Kilo for a half. Comes ready jointed and vacume wrapped.

[BALLOCH]

Thanx for info was thinking on the lines of £120 for full and £60 for 1/2 thats if people will pay that,but by the time you go to abatoir and pay killing then butcher and fuel,without your time,your not really getting alot.These boys are unreg and no one interested in them even tho one is very well marked so they will have to go,as i have reg ones aswell and dont know if they will sell as ram lambs yet so they could end up the same way,which is a shame.I here the meat is sweet and low colestrel,these lads arnt the fatest but need them away.

[SallyintNorth]

Fat lamb prices have been falling since the Olympics ended.  Top commercial lambs are struggling to fetch more than £75 in the ring at the moment, and deadweight sales are similar.

£25 for slaughter and butchering seems to be about the going rate, so you'll be doing fine if you can sell your lambs at £60 / half lamb.

However, I do agree that home-reared lamb is superior to much of what you find at the supermarket, and if you look at prices on the butchers' shelves, you could certainly get away with £8/kg, or more for a well-finished lamb, I would have thought.

[Shepherdess]

Ours average 30kg dead weight at 4 months old. We sell from £65-£75 per half. Already sold 12 halves for next time -doesn't include our regular customers. Our local abbatoir charges £15 for slaughter and butchering.

[SteveHants]

I sell a whole lamb for £150 and a half for £60 cut and packed.


Am actually wondering if its a bit cheap really.




Get lots of repeat custom, specially for Wilts horns, which tend to end up big and somewhat on the lean side, compared to commercials, but people seem to like it.

[BALLOCH]

hi we are nearly £20 for slaughter at millers and another £10 for butchery at local butcher,plus fuel etc.I have 1 1/2 lambs spare ready now if anyone local needing

[Mel]

 
I just bought some scrummy Welsh Lamb from a fellow taser,22kgs £176.00 plus courier.worked out at one and one third lambs,I do not think that was bad-it arrived yesterday and I had an end of leg joint- with home made minty sauce and home grown veggies,sigh,it was loverly!

[jaykay]

The £10 per kilo price we decided on was based on looking in Morrisons at what they were charging.

We've never had anyone ask and then baulk at the price. That said, I'm only selling small numbers and presumably people are buying it because they want to know where it comes from and how it was reared. Otherwise they could go to Morrisons.

[Fowgill Farm]

I'm getting a full lamb next week and its £120 North Yorks, home reared by a local lady.
Hth
mandy

[kja]

when we have lambs ready we tend to look at our local market report and add K&C so if that week market price is £80 we add £28 K&C so would charge £110 for a whole butchered lamb seems the fairest way for the customer and if they dont want to pay it we could take to market and get the same profit margin.

and has been said fat lamb prices are down atm. a local butcher was selling whole butchered lambs for £120 the other day.

[crazy_bull]

I sell a whole lamb for £150 and a half for £60 cut and packed.

Have you got those prices right? surely your customers just buy 2 half lambs at £120 instead of a whole at £150?

We try and get between £120 and £130 for a whole dress lamb depending on size.

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