Stonehead wrote:If any of the Aberdeenshire Ishers are interested in being reserves for the two butchered half lambs we're selling, let me know as I'm still awaiting confirmation from my usual customers. Meat will be ready early next week.
My regular customers are only taking one half lamb, so there's another half to be had if anyone would like it.
Half a lamb costs £55, collected from our place. I can deliver within a reasonable distance, but it costs!
You'd get:
Two leg joints
Two shoulder joints
Chops
Neck chops (good for Irish stew)
Mince (flanks and boned shanks)
1x Kidney
Half liver (if the abbatoir remembers to retain it)
Last time we did two lambs, each half dressed out to around 8.5kg meat, which is about £6.50 a kg. If we were retailing, it would be more but our aim is to supply ourselves with meat, then sell enough surplus to cover the costs and give us a wee bit of cash for Christmas.
The lambs are slaughtered at Rhinds of Elgin, then cut up by Findlay and Leiper in Insch so it's all certified for human consumption. While not organically certified, they were reared on pesticide free pasture, extensively grazed with their ewes and weaned late.
