Processes

We Have Our Own Way of Doing Things


Beef

Beef

The preferred option is for us to pick up your animal live from your property and transport it back to our yards where it stands overnight to settle. The following morning it is walked into our clean, purpose-built facility, and humanly killed.

The alternative option is that we send our slaughterman to kill the animal on-site if you do not have a loading race or prefer to have it killed on your property. The slaughterman will only leave a small amount of blood on the ground, where the animal was killed. He will take all offal and the hide away with him.

Once killed, the carcass is name tagged and hung in our chiller for 8 days to ensure maximum tenderness. After 8 days of aging the animal is cut up into your preferred cuts and portion sizes then cling wrapped or vac packed, similar to a supermarket. Your meat is then frozen in our walk-in freezer.

Beef descriptions/ear tags/NAIT numbers are documented on pick up and meat is labelled with your name throughout the whole process. This eliminates any mix up of carcasses and ensures that you get your own animal back. 

Sheep, Goats & Pigs

Sheep, Goats & Pigs

Small animals such as sheep and pigs are brought to us live. They stand in our yards overnight to settle and empty out. On delivery the animals are marked and your cutting requirement form is completed so we know how your animals have been identified (marked) and how you want your animals cut up.

The next day they are killed, name tagged and hung in the chiller where they hang for maximum tenderness. After aging the animal is cut up into your preferred cuts and portion sizes then cling wrapped, similar to a supermarket. The meat will then be frozen and ready for pick up.

Game

Game

Wild game can be brought into us at any time (24/7). There is no need to book or call us first. If it is after hours the carcass or trim can be dropped into our "Hunters Chiller", and we will take care of the following day. This is especially good over the weekend when hunters are on the way home and its late at night. This means we don't have to meet you there in the middle of the night to open up. We have security cameras and flood lights for your safety.

Game meat can be processed into a variety of cuts, please see our Venison, Wild Pig or Small goods forms for options.

We are also equipped to process poultry meat trim such as duck, pheasant, turkey etc.

Our butchers share your passion for hunting and know exactly how to process wild game.

Marlin

Marlin

If you are lucky enough to land a marlin, let us soak, smoke and vacuum pack it for you. These need to come to us already slabbed. Marlin can be dropped into Hunters Chiller also.


Prefer to talk to one of the Team? Call us!

Phone Counties Custom Killing on (09) 236 0163 or (027) 408 2550