Meat Sales
We end up with three quite different kinds of lambs, each uniquely tasty and succulent.
If you’ve read about our sheep, you will realise that we end up with three quite different kinds of lambs:
The Southdowns generally mature earliest, taking the abundant milk from their longwool mothers and then growing strong on our Teesdale grass. Most of them will be sold at our local auction mart.
The longwool cross wethers will be next. Their succulent and tender meat heads for the discerning table! Because of their slender legs, there is less bone in the leg and shoulder joints, too.
Woodland lambs grow more slowly. Some may be ready before Christmas, but the best eating will be kept into the New Year and sold as hogget, with its full, traditional flavour.
