Lamb butchery costs

[Shetlandsheep]

Finding a huge variance in prices for butchering and packaging up joints for lambs locally.

Varying from £23 to 40 a head. (some prices plastic bagged, some vacuum packed but not all the most expensive ones are vac packed)

This is for 6 lambs in one consignment so worth doing, not just one lamb. They get carcass direct from slaughterhouse.

I'm sure it varies depending on whether they want the work, but interested in what others pay for butchery? NB this is NOT including slaughter charges, just butchery.

I'm doing it via butcher as I'm giving some as Xmas presents etc. have decided I will butcher my own if its purely for home use in future!

 

[Gulli]

Finding a huge variance in prices for butchering and packaging up joints for lambs locally.

Varying from £23 to 40 a head. (some prices plastic bagged, some vacuum packed but not all the most expensive ones are vac packed)

This is for 6 lambs in one consignment so worth doing, not just one lamb. They get carcass direct from slaughterhouse.

I'm sure it varies depending on whether they want the work, but interested in what others pay for butchery? NB this is NOT including slaughter charges, just butchery.

I'm doing it via butcher as I'm giving some as Xmas presents etc. have decided I will butcher my own if its purely for home use in future!

Varies with the sort of cutting you want done. I pay 25 quid. Boned and rolled shoulder and breast,half joints and single chops everything vac packed and labelled. Without the boning etc its under 20 french trimmed racks goes up to 30 ish

 

[JohnGalway]

Local here, one lamb, from alive to bagged €25.

 

[Tim W]

£29 / lamb for kill/butcher to my specs inc. labelling with price and all other information on
Extra £8 for vac pac

He does a good job---

 

[Wooly]

£29 / lamb for kill/butcher to my specs inc. labelling with price and all other information on
Extra £8 for vac pac

He does a good job---

Probably more expensive for your type of sheep as the slaughter house can't get a few quid back for the fleeces!!

(Sorry, couldn't resist that one!!)

 

[Tim W]

Demand for better skins is high---hairsheep typically have better quality skins (thicker/stronger so I am told) with less chance of damage from shearing/dagging wounds

This may be yet another reason to keep cleanskin sheep

 

[Princess Pooper]

kill, cut, bag; shoulders boned rolled, breast/neck minced £27

 

[Shetlandsheep]

It is sounding like the £40 is jolly expensive as I thought then, as it is just butchery, not slaughter, that's another £20 odd on top And we are talking Shetland lambs here so not exactly large cumbersome beasts to deal with :-(( only shoulder boned, nothing else, so not complicated, just chop up.​

Was just surprised that the butchers seemed a bit huffy when I dared to say it was quite a full price

To late to go elsewhere this time but I don't think there'll be a next time for this butchers.

Perhaps I should show the butchers this post!! But I won't cos I'm a coward...

 

[JD-Kid]

just a simple cut up not hard to do yer self clever or hand meat saw for bone work and a few sharp knifes .. but thats just a basic neck chops sholder roasts chops and leg roast

quite a few books and video's about it from basic cuts up the the flash ones watch them a few times then take the telly to were yer going to cut them up and watch and cut at the same time

mincers ummmm unless yer useing a lot of mince not worth it and a lot of off cuts are crap in mince anyway so buy a cat

https://store-h19g6ffa.mybigcommerce.com/content/downloads/EllesmereButchery-ProcessingCharges.pdf
local butcher costs

if there is a local school or say YFC etc it maybe worth talking to them see if they will jack up a night school of home butchery say 6 nights over a few months

 

[Shetlandsheep]

The only problem is altho home butchery is fine to eat myself a couple of friends are buying boxes and some I'm giving to neighbours, so legally it has to be butchered in a proper licensed premises.

But for ones for us, I'm definitely going to follow that advice and get going myself. Going to get a set of knives for Xmas hopefully, too. It would be great if there were some courses within reach, the last lot that were done we're Perth and Inverness and W Scotland but nothing Aberdeenish.

Will get in contact and see if they might do something, there's plenty of smallholders in the area who could be interested, I reckon, as well as farmers.

 

[JD-Kid]

depends on whats classed as home kill
kinda a bit of a gray area here can kill and cut up for yer self get a home kill out fit come in kill and cut and also some out fits will cut up if you kill

BUT you can get animals killed and inspected after that i'm not 100 % sure if it has to be cut up at a butchers or can be cut up yourself for giveing away farm gate sales there maybe some health regs etc

knew a lot of guys who had pigs used to buy a lot of pigs off them i owned the pig and they chopped it up

 

[chris elk]

I pay 27 killed, butchered and bagged

 

[Shetlandsheep]

I pay 27 killed, butchered and bagged

I'm so jealous!!! Really think there's a gap in the market up here!

 

[JD-Kid]

seem to recall there was a link some were on cuts and how to do them i think scot's meats or some meat levy payers board it was a on line kinda deal so would need a good server

 

[scholland]

Qms, YouTube, plenty places to get tips. Always been done here to butcher your own lamb. Not much to it once you get going.

 

[Gulli]

The only problem is altho home butchery is fine to eat myself a couple of friends are buying boxes and some I'm giving to neighbours, so legally it has to be butchered in a proper licensed premises.

But for ones for us, I'm definitely going to follow that advice and get going myself. Going to get a set of knives for Xmas hopefully, too. It would be great if there were some courses within reach, the last lot that were done we're Perth and Inverness and W Scotland but nothing Aberdeenish.

Will get in contact and see if they might do something, there's plenty of smallholders in the area who could be interested, I reckon, as well as farmers.

it's apparently not that hard to get a licence to cut up for people, so long as you have a cutting room and decent cold store. Well worth it I think as after a bit of practice you can get through a lamb in pretty good time and you have control over how its cut up etc.

 

[deutz.agrostar]

We pay £25, killed, butchered, vac packed and delivered.

 

[jim bob]

I might be able to help you Shetlandsheep

 

[Shetlandsheep]

I might be able to help you Shetlandsheep

Thankyou JimBob have got Pm and replied

 

[Shetlandsheep]

We pay £25, killed, butchered, vac packed and delivered.

I Am Moving to Cornwall!!!