- All lamb offals can be commercialized ?
- YESwithout any exception for all lambs and goats aged less than 12 months, and for sheep + 12 months with an exception on the brain and the spinal cord..
- As a producer of ovines, which rank does France hold within the EEC ?
- 3rd, France has the 3rd position behind the UK and Spain..
- The Farm Lamb of Quercy was the first RED LABEL ovine ?
- YES, it was presented by the Association des Producteurs d'Agneaux Fermiers du Quercy, certified and confirmed in 1984..
- In France, people rather buy meat in super or hyper markets ?
- YES, 72.5 % of the ovine meat is sold in super or hypermarkets..
- Does the lamb meat has to be kept at the coldest place in your fridge ?
- YES, its conservation will be better. It should be eaten preferably within 3 to 4 days. If you freeze it at - 18° C you can conserve it up to 6 - 9 months..
- Is France the first land of ovine meat consumers ?
- NO, it is the second one after the UK and Spain..
- Is the moufflon the ancestor of the lamb ?
- YES,the first moufflons were domesticated in the year ard. 9500 BC. They had a marvellous rusticity and produced meat, leather, and wool.
- Which is the number of lambs of French ovine livestock ?
- 10 millions, exactly .9.2 millions and 97 000 farmings.
- In France, which is the ovine meat consumption per year and per inhabitant ?
- 3 to 5 kg, 3.9 kg per year and per inhabitant against 14,9 kg of beef and 3.5 kg of veal meat..
- Is the South Pyrenean region the first region of France of ovine production ?
- YES, it has a livestock of 1.300.000 ewes of which 600.000 are feeding..
- DESTREL Company only commercializes ovines ?
- YES, they are specialised in sheep and goats for four generations and located in the South Pyrenees..
- Can you talk about lamb and sheep without differentiating them ?
- NO, the lamb is the little one of the sheep. It is only called lamb up to 12 months. After that it becomes a sheep. This is very important for your shoppings. Ask for it..
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