Farm shop

sid · Post by **sid** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:44 pm

Thank you for your input Clive, does anybody know of any farm shops in Dorset/Somerset that are keen on Dexter Meat. With only two Dexter steers this year i don't think i will be steping on any toes. If i had five minutes to spare we would look at selling the meat from the farm but that will require red tape and money to invest and until we can secure a future with Dexter meat we will be unwilling to do so. We both would prefer to stay with Dexter meat but time will tell.

Regards

Sid

Duncan MacIntyre · Post by **Duncan MacIntyre** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:25 pm

Farm shops and Baby shops are just the same - they never have one in stock.

Duncan

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Fri May 04, 2007 7:47 am

Sid, last month I had two steers done at the same time and all was sold to friends and family. Picked up from the butcher split into 10kg packs and gone within an hour, no red tape, not much time taken up and 14 well satisfied customers and still plenty left in the freezer for our own use.
Martin.

sid · Post by **sid** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:39 pm

Thank you all for your responce,
the only reason to sell to a farm shop is that i could see a future in dexters but intil we can realise all the animals potential we cannot use the full 100 acres. with our animals i could sell very easily to our friends but a more frequent outlet would be better. I'm in the Navy and have 6 years til i leave, me and my wife have use of 100 acres (mother in law) and we already had aberdeen angus and have now ventured into Dexters. 100 acres is not huge when you really need to make the land pay for itself hence the farm shop. to be honest we have an old pilard barn that would make an ideal shop but thats in the future. sorry for the poor grammer but the last post took an hour because every time i tried to do capitals the post was lost.

regards

sid

Duncan MacIntyre · Post by **Duncan MacIntyre** » Sat May 05, 2007 9:17 pm

Sid,

sorry about the facetious response, I just have bad moments now and then. We have had Dexters for over 20 years, but are only in the next few years looking at the prospect of having enough surplus to need customers other than family. We will have 2 to kill in the next 9 months, then looking at 4 per year, peanuts compared to what anyone would need to earn significant money at - it is really the breeding side that drives me. Over the last few months I have been identifying people who would be likely to take a fraction of a carcass, 1/8 or multiples of that, so we always sell a balance of cuts. We already have 3 or 4 committed to taking an order when we next kill one, and I have registered on Clive's site with a view to identifying more future customers. We are lucky to have someone developing such an asset.

Duncan

ps don't worry about spelling or grammar, this board is good for lots of folk to communicate, not any sort of English exam. What would a Scotsman be doing in an English exam anyway?

Pauline · Post by **Pauline** » Sun May 06, 2007 1:30 am

my understanding is that if the meat is properly butchered,packaged and labelled with the abbattoir and cutting place,then you can adverise meat for sale from your door,The lettering on a road sign can only be of a certain height-can't remember offhand how tall,You will also need to keep a twice daily record of the freezer temperature should trading standards drop in on you!Personally I always have a queue a mile long for all our meat,The problem is holding on to it for our own consumption!I sell it frozen

115-1170020495 · Post by **115-1170020495** » Tue May 08, 2007 9:29 pm

can anyone confirm pauline's statement regarding selling meat from the door

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Tue May 08, 2007 9:57 pm

Hi Soldex

I can't confirm that it's correct, but it's what we do and we believe it to be all in order (in the UK). We only advertise at the farm gate and never heard of the lettering size issue.