Poultry –After a slower than expected start to the season, poultry days booked up quickly for August through to November. If you have, or will be getting, more chicks but have not yet booked a slaughter day, please let us know immediately and we will try to fit you in. Turkey dates for Thanksgiving are FULL.
We have a new rotary scalder which allows us to process chicken feet for human consumption. This will be done only if specifically requested.
Haidee Hart (Woodshed Provisions) is looking to buy local chicken fresh or frozen ($6:50/$7:00lb). If you have birds to sell, email Haidee: haidee@woodshedprovisions.com
Red Meat – With the new addition we have lots of capacity to hang more carcasses. Unfortunately, the numbers we can process in a week are limited by staff availability & the lack of rental housing on SSI! If you have lambs you want to bring in before Christmas and haven’t booked yet, please send us your numbers and we will add you to the wait list. We hope to add a few more slaughter days in Nov/Dec.
Housing staff & potential new staff – finding a place to live is an ongoing struggle. If you know of a rental situation where a couple and their 4 goats would be welcome, we’d like to hear from you.
Help Wanted: We have a great team but need more help to accommodate all the bookings requested.
- Do you know of a skilled butcher (retired perhaps) who might be willing to assist for a few days this fall?
- Currently we are looking for another meat wrapper for regular work 1 or 2 days a week until Christmas.
- someone with experience slaughtering pigs to work 1 or 2 days this fall.
- Someone with experience eviscerating chickens Sept 5 & Sept 26
Membership Drive: Many thanks to the 80 of you who signed up as members to support our community Abattoir.
Fall Fair Fundraiser – we’ll be selling lamb burgers again at the Fall Fair Sept 9 & 10 and looking for more volunteers to help out both days. If you don’t have time to sign up for a shift, come by anyway and buy a burger! To sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4FADA62DA0F49-fall3
SAVE THE DATE – 11th Abattoir Birthday Bash – Saturday Nov 4 –at Fulford Hall with meal prepared by Chef Brody Paine, live music and silent auction. Tickets on sale beginning of October.