Smallholders Insurance from Greenlands

Author Topic: Soay sheep local friendly butcher required suffolk  (Read 2828 times)

Mole

  • Joined Sep 2008
Soay sheep local friendly butcher required suffolk
« on: December 05, 2013, 05:30:38 pm »
Nobody seems to want my sheep and I have too many to go through winter.
Anybody know of a sympathetic butcher who might provide an outlet for Soay sheep or even kill and prepare the meat for my own freezer.

shygirl

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Soay sheep local friendly butcher required suffolk
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2013, 06:52:04 pm »
will your local abattoir/butcher not help you put it in your freezer?
id be suprised if they wont but noone will do it in december.

selling meat privately would be more suited maybe, if butchers wont take it on.

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Soay sheep local friendly butcher required suffolk
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2013, 07:06:56 pm »
As already said during December private slaughters are almost impossible , our abattoirs last day is the 8th Dec and has been fully booked for weeks, we only got 2 booked in after someone cancelled while we where dropping the cattle off.
Even early January is filling up here 
Graham

Mole

  • Joined Sep 2008
Re: Soay sheep local friendly butcher required suffolk
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2013, 08:12:21 pm »
Sheep now sold

shygirl

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Soay sheep local friendly butcher required suffolk
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2013, 08:14:29 pm »
on the hoof?  or did you find a butcher?

 

Forum sponsors

FibreHut Energy Helpline Thomson & Morgan Time for Paws Scottish Smallholder & Grower Festival Ark Farm Livestock Movement Service

© The Accidental Smallholder Ltd 2003-2024. All rights reserved.

Design by Furness Internet

Site developed by Champion IS