Price of lamb

arctictree

The wife just bought some lamb chops in SuperValu. €25 per kilo. She made a lovely curry though...

OK, so I know all about the chain etc but this year I'll definitely be getting some done for the freezer. Local butcher charges €35 euro, slaughter,butchered,bagged and labelled, all above board for tagged lambs. Do ye lads keep some for yourselves?

rangler1

arctictree wrote: »

The wife just bought some lamb chops in SuperValu. €25 a kilo!! She made a lovely curry though...

OK, so I know all about the chain etc but this year I'll definitely be getting some done for the freezer. Local butcher charges €35 euro, slaughter,butchered,bagged and labelled, all above board for tagged lambs. Do ye lads keep some for yourselves?

would really go against the grain here to pay €25/kg after taking €5, we kill 2 -3 lambs here every year, we get them done at the factory, have to bag it ourselves, they go off with the lambs for the factory and get the meat a week later. We believe that vendeen definitely has a taste ahead of any other breed

arctictree

Maybe she just got the really expensive pre packed option. Looking on line there on SuperValue, they are 13.99 per kilo for loose chops. The lamb loin chops though are 21.99 a kilo! Diced lamb - 16.67 ! I'll be giving the butcher a list this year of what I want!

sako 85

Brought lamb to ICM Camolin this morning, €5.30 to 21kg (including €0.10 for QA)

Username John

sako 85 wrote: »

Brought lamb to ICM Camolin this morning, €5.30 to 21kg (including €0.10 for QA)

Dropping 20c / kg a week for last 3 weeks...

AntrimGlens

Would always kill a couple here for ourselves, bought a large chest freezer when we moved into the new house and fully stock it with a couple of lambs. Would butcher them myself, not the prettiest cuts when i've finished but they resemble what they should look like. Picked out a couple of ewe lambs on saturday for killing soon. the father always gives out about me killing ram lambs, says it tastes too stong, but killing them at 14 weeks i've never found it too strong, so as much as it pains me i'll kill these ewe lambs to see any difference in taste. ??

Green farmer

Get a few hoggets gone each year as well. €30 through butcher. find much more eating in them. They could be 60 - 70 kilos live weight.

ganmo

we get a couple killed every year by a lad near rathcoole, all above board, have to bag ourselves.
Drop them sunday/monday pick em up friday, can pick up 5th quarter once vet approves

Birdnuts

rangler1 wrote: »

, we kill 2 -3 lambs here every year,

Same as - have a m8 who is a master butcher and does the busines for us. I think its a no-brainer if you have your own flock, couldn't stomach being ripped off on the double by the large multiples/processors.

Lano Lynn

never buy lamb always eat our own any one we think that will be 'overweight' and have some deep freeze clients as well.not to mention a leg of lamb is always welcome when going visiting friends.

also kill a couple of big lean cheviot wether hoggets (16mths) after they have had a good feed of clover in july. the best for currys,casaroles,tagines and slow cooking.
different texture grain and flavor than lamb.

was given 'lamb' chops for dinner while out shearing last year turns out yer man buy a ram lamb to tip his ewes each year n kills him for freezer after christmas!!!!! it was vile with ram taint.

the provisions fairy bought liver last november in supervalue same thing.....couldn't eat it (needless to say she has not made the same mistake since)
i'm sure it was BB quality assured:mad:

drive it

Green farmer wrote: »

Get a few hoggets gone each year as well. €30 through butcher. find much more eating in them. They could be 60 - 70 kilos live weight.

Same here you get bigger chops and less of the little cutlets,usually keep the small lambs that are not worth feeding just let them potter about until spring /summer

jt65

we kill about 20 -25 each year for ourselves & a few long standing customers

vendeen X would be the preferred choice

local abattoir charges about €23 each for killing hanging & bagging , collect the meat after 14 days

Farrell

jt65 wrote: »

we kill about 20 -25 each year for ourselves & a few long standing customers

vendeen X would be the preferred choice

local abattoir charges about €23 each for killing hanging & bagging , collect the meat after 14 days

Fair play, that's good business