Canowindra is a small scale domestic abattoir that describes itself as a boutique abattoir. The facility provides service kills to the small producer
Other Names
- Operating business name – Premier Meats4
Current Operation
- Domestic abattoir that processes sheep and goats5
- Aus meat Accreditation number
- Operator website links
- Contact for employment
- Contact for sales.
Location
- Description of physical location in relation to main town and state
- distance to main urban areas or export sites of that state
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Owner
- Owners names and approximate time period of operation
Operation
- Aus-meat accreditation dates.
- Website link to owner of facility
- Employment link to operator of facility
- Sale enquiries
- Canowindra processes, sheep, lamb and pigs 3 days a week5
- Also chickens, turkey, ducks, emu and alpaca one day a week5
- Fills a niche client demand for people wanting only a small number of stock processed5
- Facility is chemical free and organic accredited5
- Employ 6 people5
History of Canowindra
2012
- Abattoir facility was established on the property of Stephen and Dorothy Tamplin5
- Wanted an on-farm butchery to sell what they actually grew5
- They were having their stock processed somewhere else but the guarantee of receiving their own carcases back wasn’t a certainty5
- Facility only covers an area of 95 sq metres5
- Canowindra begins to process lambs5
Pre 2014
- Abattoir was developed as main stream facilities didn’t offer service kill4
2014
- Canowindra Abattoir hosts a touring party from Republic of Korea4
- Koreans were interested to learn operation of a small scale facility to experience the Australian system and find out what is competitive in Australia4
2015
- April. Canowindra slaughters 45 lambs a day
- Capacity is limited by cool room capacity and power supply
- Cool room can only hold 45 carcases at a time
- Power is single phase
- Facility can actually process up to 200 sheep a day but is unable to due to cool-room capacity of only 45 head.
- Lambs, sheep, goat and pig are processed 3 days a week
- carcases are chilled for 3 days
- Chickens, turkeys, ducks, emu and alpaca are slaughtered on Thursdays
- Carcases are able to be picked up that afternoon or the next day
Sources of Canowindra
- ‘World on a plate. A history of meat processing in Australia’ Stephen Martyn
- Ausmeat Accreditation list – Date
- Facility website
- ‘Korean Party tours local abattoir’ Canowindra News 09.04.2014
- ‘Small kills will benefit small producers’ www.farmonline.com.au 28.04.2015
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