Two sheeps....

[Quixote]

reduced to kit form today. A pair of Ryland gimmer ewes that failed to produce last year met their end last week. Ten days hanging has done them proud. Just over 10kg from the smaller of the two, and just over 14 from the other. A promise to a friend fulfilled, and payment in kind has made this a very good day

 

[WW.]

Is Delaney booking in his donkey next week?

 

[sauer]

Twice this week ive.been asked if I can do a cow !

Eh...no sorry

 

[Quixote]

Twice this week ive.been asked if I can do a cow !

Eh...no sorry

I reckon I could just about manage a Dexter or a Shetland. In absolutely no hurry to find out though

 

[Quixote]

Is Delaney booking in his donkey next week?

He asked, but I told him to take his ass someplace else

 

[sauer]

I reckon I could just about manage a Dexter or a Shetland. In absolutely no hurry to find out though

F#@k that.... reckon id pull my winch off side of garage

 

[WW.]

He asked, but I told him to take his ass someplace else

In O'Rafferty's motor car?

 

[Dunwaters]

Nothing as nice to butcher as a well chilled lamb or wether.
Deer are a sloppy nightmare in comparison.

 

[VSS]

Twice this week ive.been asked if I can do a cow !

Eh...no sorry

I reckon I could just about manage a Dexter or a Shetland. In absolutely no hurry to find out though

I can tell you from experience that the full enormity of what you've let yourself in for doesn't really hit home until after you've pulled the trigger..... By which time it's too late to change your mind!
I'm glad to have done a few cattle as home kills, but I have no intention of doing any more!

Nothing as nice to butcher as a well chilled lamb or wether.
Deer are a sloppy nightmare in comparison.

Much easier to clean up after doing a deer though. No fat stuck to everything.

 

[Kentish]

A friend of mine asked me if i could dispatch an alpaca last week. Thankfully it got better. Back on topic though I do like the look of ryelands

 

[alun1960]

I can tell you from experience that the full enormity of what you've let yourself in for doesn't really hit home until after you've pulled the trigger..... By which time it's too late to change your mind!
I'm glad to have done a few cattle as home kills, but I have no intention of doing any more!



Much easier to clean up after doing a deer though. No fat stuck to everything.

Lamb not as bad as a full fat cover boar , doing a young male this week thats a greasy pig !

 

[VSS]

Lamb not as bad as a full fat cover boar , doing a young male this week thats a greasy pig !

Wild boar?
I've done countless domestic pigs, but the pleasure of processing a wild one still awaits me!

 

[Will the chippy]

Remember doing a lamb in November. Eugh it was too fat, it was really greasy to eat. Got told by an old school butcher leave those older fat lambs till spring. They burn up the fat over winter, so we did, it was about a year old hogget. The best lamb we've ever had.

 

[alun1960]

Wild boar?
I've done countless domestic pigs, but the pleasure of processing a wild one still awaits me!

Yes a wild boar , the skinning to get a neat beast is all knife work to leave the fat on beast not skin . Worth the effort for the quality meat and very hard to get on to them this season down to a mast year my opinion . Another thread not hijack this !

 

[Quixote]

Yes a wild boar , the skinning to get a neat beast is all knife work to leave the fat on beast not skin . Worth the effort for the quality meat and very hard to get on to them this season down to a mast year my opinion . Another thread not hijack this !

Please feel free to hijack to your heart's content! I like seeing threads evolve organically

 

[Foxyboy43]

Never had a problem with butchering - the sainted Lady FB just loves getting her hands on a carcass…..

Whilst I of course provide a supervisory role and generously proffer advice - which of course is always well received….

 

[Dunwaters]

I can tell you from experience that the full enormity of what you've let yourself in for doesn't really hit home until after you've pulled the trigger..... By which time it's too late to change your mind!
I'm glad to have done a few cattle as home kills, but I have no intention of doing any more!

I’ve done 2, and you’re right.
But once it’s on the ground you have no choice.

Much easier to clean up after doing a deer though. No fat stuck to everything.

I think I’d call it a draw. You could end up with fat on everything with an early stag or a decent hind, they still won’t take a set.

 

[Quixote]

Much easier to clean up after doing a deer though. No fat stuck to everything.

These two were fat! The amount of suet on them was pretty impressive, but they weren't so fat to have too much waste. I reckon the discard was maybe 20kg They were set beautifully, too. Getting the shoulders off clean took a fair bit of muscle. Very nice carcasses indeed!

 

[Quixote]

Nothing as nice to butcher as a well chilled lamb or wether.
Deer are a sloppy nightmare in comparison.

They never set up as well, do they?

 

[Sol]

I bet they would setup much nicer If we were willing too hang them skinless more often, but most people often dont, sheep almost always enter the larder totally skinned.