For sale: livestock, hatching eggs, fleeces, meat, furniture...
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Livestock: Following a successful lambing we should have young stock (wethers - castrated rams - for grazing, wool or meat, and ewe lambs) available in July 2008. Email us for further information.
Wanted: We are looking to buy a Torwen ram ready for work this autumn. Either a yearling or an older proven ram, perhaps now too closely related to your ewes? Contact us if you have a sensible, good to handle ram available, and aren't a million miles from Devon.
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Fleeces: We have Torwen (black) and Torddu (predominantly white with some black) raw, unwashed, undipped fleeces for sale for hand spinners. For details click here. The cost is £5 for a mature sheep fleece, and £8 for a hogget fleece (first shearing) plus postage and packing.
Meat: We can take advance orders for lamb, hogget and mutton, pork, gammon and bacon. All meat to be collected on a pre-arranged date from the farm, as it's brought back from the butcher. Email us if you want to be put on our contact list to be alerted when we have fresh meat available.
Lamb:
- grass fed, slow grown, pure Badger Face Welsh Mountain Sheep lamb, (no manufactured concentrates that hastens growth but loses flavour), medium sized delicious carcases. All improved of course because of their spectacular daily Devon views over Dartmoor and Hatherleigh Moor.
- £5 per kilo, which averages at approx £70 for a whole lamb and £35 for a half.
- Whole and half lambs are available. With one lamb you get 2 x shoulders, 2 x legs, a quantity of chops, breast, stewing lamb and heart, kidneys and liver (if you don't want the offal please say).
- If you want a whole or half lamb in one piece for spit roasting, we can do that too (and at a slightly lower cost as there is less butchering involved) but it's only a good idea if you use it fresh within a few days or have a chest freezer that can accommodate it whole! One fully butchered lamb takes up about one and a half shelves in an upright freezer.
Hogget:
- Older lamb, up to a year old, larger carcase with a deeper, wonderful taste that still maintains tenderness.
- Quantities as for lamb
- £6 per kilo, which averages at £108 for a whole hogget and £54 for a half.
Mutton: We occasionally have mutton available; carcases will weigh more than lambs or hoggets. Please let us know if you are interested in mutton – it is a flavoursome meat, perfect for slow roasting, mutton curry, moussaka, Lancashire hotpot and any number of Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall recipes! Contrary to popular belief, we have never found it to be tough.
Pork, gammon, bacon and sausages: Outdoor reared Berkshire pork. If you haven’t had any outdoor reared pork before you are in for a very pleasant surprise.
- From one pig you get approx 60-70 kilos of meat (which is 132-154 lbs of pork, gammon, bacon and sausages in old money).
- We sell a minimum quarter of a pig at a time, approx 30 - 40 lbs/14 - 18 kilos meat (as joints, chops, ribs, rashers, sausages etc) - if you want less than that you could buddy up with a friend.
- Price is £5.50 per kilo (so approx £70-£95 for a quarter of a pig). Grain/feed prices are increasing (we've just paid 10% more for feed than six months ago) which is likely to have an affect on price.
- Cured gammon joints are fabulous simmered for an hour, then the skin and fat scored, covered with maple syrup, Demerara or honey and French mustard and roasted for a further hour.
- Bacon: a mix of back and streaky smoked bacon – almost too good for a bacon sarnie, this is seriously superb stuff
- Sausages:for our own use we use half a pig (in one piece) and remove the meat to make our own sausages (more fun than you can imagine and recommended if you have an old Kenwood and are not averse to plunging your arms into heaps of minced pork). If you want sausages, don't worry; we can get the butcher to make a variety of sausages on request as part of your pork order.