We take lambs for butcher for us and our customers to the local packing house, and the meat is wonderful. If they aren't going to be killed immediately, they are given food and water and have shade. It doesn't seem to bother them much. A funny story: I took my first lamb in, and after trying the meat ourselves, we were going to give samples to others who had expressed an interest. Well, the lamb managed to escape somehow from the holding pens and was missing for three days. Finally, someone phoned the packing house and said they had spotted a sheep in someone's yard down the road. The owners of the packing house went right down there and roped the lamb (he was a St. Croix/Barbado cross and weighed about 90 lbs.) He never fought them at all (I think he had been lonely!) and they fed him for three days to make sure he was calm before killing him. The meat was fabulous! I think if you know the peopl!
e you are
dealing with, as I did having worked there for a year, and you can ask about their methods, you will see that they will not stay in business if they are turning out a bad product and are not humane in their treatment of your animals. Hope that helps! Cheryl McLaughlin
Cheryl McLaughlin
McLaughlin Appaloosas &
Quarter Horses
www.McAppys.com
