Hi All,
Thanks for the replies - Sorry I havnt had time to reply sooner.
We had 4 tamworths in total and had approx 2084 sausages made from them (thats by my caluclations rather than actually counting the sausages!!)
We can freeze and eat / sell which is what we are doing but isnt there a shelf life on frozen meat of about 3 months? Even so, we have our last 3 tamworths of the year being sent off around xmas which we will need to store in the freezer ( just joints from these lol!).
Is anyone clued up on how legal it is to sell pork like this ( Ie, who we can sell to considering we pack in the kitchen into food bags without labels?).
No, We were not specific to the butcher as we have lernt a lot from him, he is really helpful and has been a massive source of knowledge to us since starting with meat pigs 18 months ago. Generally we ask him what he thinks of the meat when he gets it back and how he would best use the meat. We will in future say that this was way too many sausages but we will also never have 4 pigs going off together again.
It's all a learning curve to us and every now and then we have a blip like this where we suck it up and learn from it! No one is to blame, its just one of lifes lessons!
We are however in South Herefordshire if any of you lovely chaps out there wish to purchase any premium sausages - outdoor born and bred, free range pigs living in an apple orchard
We have plenty of Pork sausages and will also have joints / pork mince come early Jan.
Thanks everyone