- Location
- Shropshire
Kept out of Highley today. What are you doing venturing to the dark side?
Knowing that place, they probably sold a tenners worth of meat and 4 grands worth of weed
New season lamb too expensive (for butcher)
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Knowing that place, they probably sold a tenners worth of meat and 4 grands worth of weed
Wasn't in Highley but big wagon came this way and somebody phoned me as to where it had been, looked up name and it appears to have been at the Malt Shovel,I bet Will wasn't too pleased
- Location
- East Sussex
Lambs I bought out of the market this week for butchers were less than £4.80 per kg. The butchers I supply have not quibbled over the price at all even when they were £5.50.
Demand is very high from these smaller outlets and we are doing around 50 a week, less than when we were on hoggets but they never went below £4.50!!
The last of them will changeover to all new seasons this next week.
Demand is very high from these smaller outlets and we are doing around 50 a week, less than when we were on hoggets but they never went below £4.50!!
The last of them will changeover to all new seasons this next week.
SilliamWhale
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I bought half a lamb for £50, half a mutton for £60
Don't find it too bad when using the non prime cuts as well.
12 bottles of real ale costs me £30 and thats only hops and barley!
Rolled shoulder of beef the other day cost me £12 and I got about 7 meals from it
Don't find it too bad when using the non prime cuts as well.
12 bottles of real ale costs me £30 and thats only hops and barley!
Rolled shoulder of beef the other day cost me £12 and I got about 7 meals from it
- Location
- South Wales UK
You don't see many poor butchers about?
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Butcher should have said of course madam and given her some hoggett
Its better anyway
- Location
- Shropshire
Don’t think Will can keep up with trade t the moment! He deserves it though, his steaks are lovely
Couldn’t agree more, greedy bugger is cherry picking as he won’t drop his price innSeptember
And pork pies,I have delivery weekly (not at the moment though unfortunately)
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Speaking to a butcher up here, said he didn't get many complaints but often had moans from his punters when he swapped from hoggs on to nsl.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Because the hogg tastes better?
Paddington
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- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
We sell a few hoggets round the doors as lamb because people would think they were buying woolly pigs. Trying to sell pullets eggs, people wanted hens eggs and not eggs from pullets, whatever they were ?
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
He's a business man and the price was above his cut off point, so he wasn't going to make a profit, and was better off utilising his time on other products that would turn a profit that week? Sounds reasonable enough? For all we know the customer might want a single neck fillet from the lamb, which leaves a lot too shift, whereby he knows that his regular clientel won't fork out the extra price he needs to turn a profit that week and will wait and are happy enough, if not more delighted, with hogget at a cheaper rate. You can't please them all.
Just the same as walking away from a ram at a tup sale because its gone above your predetermined cut off point.
Just another view point........
Just the same as walking away from a ram at a tup sale because its gone above your predetermined cut off point.
Just another view point........
Chasingmytail
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- Location
- Newport, SE Wales
If I didnt have a freezer full of my own lamb I wouldnt buy it (apart from the mince) a decent leg of lamb is close to £30 making it a pricey Sunday lunch. If I cook chops I have to cook at least 3 each depending on how ravenous the boys are. The price of 12 - 15 lamb chops I dread to think.
How big is half a lamb? In kgs
SilliamWhale
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About 7 or 8 kg I guess
- Location
- Lincolnshire
The diced uk lamb i used in last night's curry was £15 per kilo from Morrisons. The nine chicken thighs (UK) with skin on and bone in cost £2.20 from Tesco. The lamb was nice but I could have had crispy chicken all week for the same money. And the lamb chops were even dearer. Compare a leg of lamb with a leg of pork and the price difference is shocking. Lamb just for a treat now.
ollie989898
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Hogg is way better anyway. I don't know why people go mad for lamb chops, fudge all meat on them, I'd sooner roast a lump of shoulder.
If the butcher can't make new lamb pay that is his concern, no one else's. The majority around here can't seem to flog pork fast enough- it's say in front of the punter unpackaged and you can't buy loin or chops or sausages of that size in the supermarkets.
I like going to John Thorners down the road, it is very good stuff but they charge for it too.
I still cannot understand how pork and chicken is so cheap.
If the butcher can't make new lamb pay that is his concern, no one else's. The majority around here can't seem to flog pork fast enough- it's say in front of the punter unpackaged and you can't buy loin or chops or sausages of that size in the supermarkets.
I like going to John Thorners down the road, it is very good stuff but they charge for it too.
I still cannot understand how pork and chicken is so cheap.
- Location
- East Sussex
Pork and Chicken is so cheap because grain prices are low and feed conversion on these are so good. Chickens are turned around in 40 plus days and kept in very intensive conditions and pigs are similar and reproduce at an eyewatering rate!
Beef and especially lamb are high quality luxury meats which will always be the case and should be kept for most of their lives on grass or forage crops.
This should always be the selling point for red meat.
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