Is £120 for a whole new english lamb cheap?

buzzyy

i just paid £25 for a whole lamb,prices differ wherever you go,direct to farms is best

miecherox

Hi,

I buy mine form the farm at the top of my road and it normally works out about £120 ish - I split this with someone else as it's considered a treat! Lamb is fairly expensive this time of year so if you looked later on it would perhaps be lower. In comparison half a pig is £80 and 1/8th of a bulllock is about £120/£140. It is better to get a price per kilo to know if you're getting a good deal becasue it does depend how fat/big your animal is!

I think it works out excellent value and the taste is incomparable to the supermarket. Plus it's very satisfying to know the farmer direct and know the animal has been well looked after.

HTH

ljonski

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rfjcf/Lambing_Live_Episode_3/

they go to the market after about 30 mins and say commercial lambs were sold for £72 ahead to the abattoirs/supermarkets

paulofessex

Prices are just baaaaaaaamry these days (sorry could'nt resist it)

Barneysmom

thriftlady wrote: »

How do you ensure a sheep is organic? Surely it's impossible to be absolutely sure what it has eaten wandering over the hills?

My butcher charges £2.68 a lb for a whole sheep and they average between 40 and 50 lbs. A 50 pounder would work out at about £130.

True, compared with about £13 a kilo for lambs chops on thei own at the supermarket.

pelirocco

thriftlady wrote: »

How do you ensure a sheep is organic? Surely it's impossible to be absolutely sure what it has eaten wandering over the hills?

My butcher charges £2.68 a lb for a whole sheep and they average between 40 and 50 lbs. A 50 pounder would work out at about £130.

As the sheep will be wandering on land belonging to a particuler farmer of course they can be sure the land hasnt been fertilised

The primary characteristics of Organic meat production are:

• 1. It is a legally defined standard
• 2. There is a registered, documented and inspected trail from "farm gate to dinner plate";
• 3. It operates to the very highest levels of animal welfare;
• 4. No routine drugs, growth promoters, animal offal or any other additives fed to animals (sick animals may of course he treated);
• 5. At least 70% of animal feed must he grown to organic standards;
• 6. No use of artificial fertilisers or pesticides on feed crops or grass
• 7. No use of Genetically Modified Organisms

zippychick

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Zip

Kimitatsu

Are you desperate for it now? If you wait about 6 weeks then the prices will come down a bit - I look to pay about £80 for a lamb, thats a rare breed lamb, not organic, but I know what its been fed and where it has come from as its just down the road from me.

geordie_joe

Originally Posted by thriftlady
How do you ensure a sheep is organic? Surely it's impossible to be absolutely sure what it has eaten wandering over the hills?

pelirocco wrote: »

As the sheep will be wandering on land belonging to a particuler farmer of course they can be sure the land hasnt been fertilised

You'e right, the farmer would never allow the wind to blow fertiliser onto his land from a neighbouring farm. Nor would he allow the seed from GM crops to blow over his piddly little barbed wire fences and dry stone walls.

Same with weed killer, he'll have a sign up saying "Any wind that blows weed killer onto my land will be prosecuted"

bubbs

No im not in a hurry for it, actually it was my sister that said about it as she is on her own would take ages for to eat it all up and be taking space in her freezer , so thought we could go halves if i was intrested but she wasnt sure if it was a good price.
But i got loads of venison for a good price 20 kilos for £20!!! yum yum yum!!!