Oh my goodness, Oscar would go CRAZY for ones of those. lamb shank is his fave meal, but that shoulder would be HEAVEN!

K

Thanks for that - went out and bought ours some

just bumping this up again as I was in tesco last night and it is half price again!

I just wanted to know what you "whack" (love that word! LOL) it with? I have some pigs "trotters" here that are more like legs and I wanted to cut them down a bit smaller but so far have only been able to find meat cleavers that are suitable for cutting up whole chickens and I have a kitchen knife that can do that I also have some rather large turkey necks that take some muscle to cut up

Excellent! I was just reading "Work Wonders" last night and thinking on how much my two enjoyed these, but they are just to pricey at full cost. I'll be off to Tesco to pick some up later!
Thanks for posting.

Thank you colliemad Sounds like a good opportunity to get lamb for the bank holiday (human's) dinner.

Absolutely fantastic lamb recipe here.... I've tried it! -

http://www.dogsey.com/showthread.php?t=4927

I'm sure it would work just as well with shoulder. Thank you again Mini for this

heh heh...I use an axe when I need too (on the floor on the chopping bored (don't do it on the worktops they'll probably cave in with all the whacking lol)

My weapon of choice is a hacksaw!

I just went to George Bolam Butchers (very large Butchers in my area) and bought half a Lamb shoulder for £2. Not sure if that's cheap or not?

Never thought of feeing it whole, I always saw it up into meal size portions. Probably best for now though, cos Lamb gave her the squits as a pup so just trying it out for now.

Would hate to see the result the morning after an entire half shoulder!

If it was heavier than a kilo or so I'd say £2 was quite good What you can do is to give it to her whole and then she may regulate how much she has herself but if she is a bit greedy just swap it with something else when you think she has had enough and give it to her again next dinner time. With the whole pig shoulder I get (10 + kg) I whack it in half and give half each and let them decide how much they want and keep giving it till it's gone - they get so satisfied eating that way. Takoda regulates what he has extreamly well and it's only ever about twice as much as he would normally have but if it is something Keena likes she can eat up to 3 x's her usual amount - their bellies after are funny they look like fat lions lol. Then after that they will have a rest day food wise here and there to ease back down. (just like in the wild). (No heavy excersize when they are fat lions - I run them well before etc)

I haven't used a hacksaw but I was after a bonesaw - I still want one but people who don't know it's all for innocently sawing meat and bone for the dogs must wonder why the hell for! lol

never thought of an axe...........

I have just done a search for a bonesaw and can only find american sites but managed to get a good description of the type of blade it has so a decent hacksaw might do the job, wonder how hard it will be to cut up frozen pigs trotters...........