In my last lot of meat from my local producer I have 2 cow (ox) tails. Now my girlies have big mouths and will gobble smaller bones whole if I am not carefull so as these tails were chopped into bits I was reluctant to give them to the girlies. Last night I tried to cut the meat of but the bones are a wierd shape so in frustration I just slung them in a big pan and boiled them till the meat fell off. I picked them clean and poured the meat and juice into a large pudding bowl. This morning it had solidified and was like a meat jelly.... well the girls have gone nuts for it, even the pup who has reached that stage in a Berners life when she will turn her nose up at anything depending on her mood. (She is 13 months and no doubt about to come into season) A spoonfull of this jelly (Or a slice !!!) on her tripe this morning and she was hunting for more....might be woth a try for your fussy eaters. No need to wash bowls today as they have licked every bit of DNA from them !! Granny Pepsi is still out there trying to get a little more taste !
Aileen

sounds good enough to eat. Unfortunately usually oxtail is really expensive round her:(

Blimey mine is free... I usualy get a huge bag or two of allsorts when I have my meat order. My local lady who produces organic beef, lamb and pork makes sure when she collects from the slaugter house that she picks up anything he may have in the rubbish bins so I get a variety of bits. This time I have the tails and also lungs, 3 whole livers !! Yikes...not many of her byers want the liver so I get the lot. I always slice up some for us and the girlies get the rest, kidneys, cheeks, tongues ( Wierd to slice them up but the girlies love them raw...talk about a cow lick !) 3 hearts and thats a lot of meat from a cow ! all this was free. It makes my fresh organic meat a little cheaper as it will feed the 3 girlies for a while. We also get the marrow bones for recreation and the brisket or soft bones which they crunch up as a meal. In the spring I get loads of nice soft new spring lamb rib cages and often the brisket as many people don't want it. In the autumn she does the pork and we get 1/2 pig in joints and chops etc.. and 1/2 in sausages. They come in 3 wonderfull flavours too. The only drawback is that it only comes in season so Spring we get lamb and I have 2 whole ones then early summer beef and I have 1/2 cow then in autumn the pork. Some times of the year we get left with a load of beef or pork and I run out of something...we get fed up with what is left then till the next lot comes in. However this is tempered by the fact that I can drive past her fields every day and watch my meat growing and enjoying life in the sunshine.
Aileen

However this is tempered by the fact that I can drive past her fields every day and watch my meat growing and enjoying life in the sunshine.


LOL Aileen...............those sharp pains in your eyes?  Its only the veggies on Champdogs sticking pins in!!!  lol :-) :-) :-)

At least I ensure my meat has had a good life. Not been factory farmed..... I can live with the sharp pains!!!!
Aileen

Fleabag - that really made me laugh!

I run an organic farm, Aileen, so know just what you mean :)

But we're going to have some out of season lamb here, not quite sure how it happened but we had 5 lambs about a month ago. Bit of a surprise, not sure if we had a "visitor" who came and left swiftly as all the lambs arrive within about 40 hours of each other. A little mystery!

Could be an arrested birth but 5 not a chance.  Sounds like they had a casnova x

I'd feed raw more if i had merlot's luck for free meat, lol.  Mine do seem to prefere it.

Free ! I think I am missing out

Reikiangel apart from storage it really isnt expensive and probably less than you are paying now
Your little ones wont need much. Mia at 4kg has about 60grams Whispa (46kg) 1kg and brooke(20kg) atm 900 grams. That lot paying for it all costs me about £40 pm for them all
Just noticed its organic  too , right house is up for sale I am on my way to somerset  !!!

The place I get it from is  less than 5 miles away and they are customers of my OH who is a builder and he has done loads of work for them. They just bring on a few each cows sheep and pigs, with some lovely turkeys and ducks and geese for Xmas and send them to the local very very small slaughter house. It's not accredited organic but as near as makes no odds. They have holiday cottages as well but as it's a working farm it's no pets :-(
http://patsonhill.co.uk/
But as I would not ever need to have a holiday so close to home it does not worry me :-)
I paid just over £200 for a large box of beef with aprox 25 bags minced beef (enough for 4 in a bag) 8 sirloins, 6 lots of rump, 6 nice sized fillets,  15 small joints, 25 bags of stewing/braising/ shin of beef, works out at less than £3.00 per meal and that included a nice fillet steak meal or a roast rib!!!  then in the dog food bags I get all the liver usually from 2 cows so I do 10 or so bags for us and the dogs have the rest, kidneys, hearts, tongues, brisket bones, lungs, tails, marrow bones, and I have asked for the paunches next year. So it drop's the price of my meat down a good bit.
It's my 2nd year of using them and I will not be changing any time soon...I can see a good thing when it slaps me in the face...
Aileen

wow lucky dogs ( and you x)

Shame its no pets, I'm going down there in the next few weeks.  it would have been ideal.

Maybe I'll see they have to offer and bring it home lol