Halal Whole & Half Carcasses

No, but the confusion is real and it comes from language rather than butchery. Mutton is meat from a mature sheep; in Britain, many South Asian households use the same word for goat, so a recipe calling for mutton may mean either animal. This page carries both: whole mutton at 30kg and half mutton at 15kg, whole young goat at 18kg and half young goat at 8kg, alongside whole lamb at 16kg and half lamb at 8kg. Lamb is the young sheep, mutton the older one, and goat a different animal entirely. The two goat carcasses are members here for the weight comparison; our halal goat page carries the full answer on buying a whole or half goat.

Half a lamb here is an 8kg carcass and a whole lamb is 16kg, so the real question is freezer space rather than anything else; each product page carries its own price. For comparison, half mutton is 15kg and whole mutton 30kg, while half young goat is 8kg and whole young goat 18kg. All six are sold at the listed carcass weight, bone in, and what ends up in the freezer depends on how you break it down. A carcass is usually a planned buy for a large gathering or a celebration, so freezer space is the thing to settle first. Freeze it on the day it arrives and it holds for up to 12 months.

Intact, and that is the point of the format. These six products carry no cutting option at all - the cutting selector you see on our cut pages does not apply here - so half lamb, half mutton and half young goat arrive whole, and the knife work is yours. If you would rather we did it, our lamb, mutton and goat collections carry the leg, shoulder and chops with the cutting selector applied. Each carcass is bought as non-stunned halal meat from certified suppliers. It then travels the standard carrier route: nationwide it goes by DPD, Tuesday to Saturday, dispatched the next working day and delivered the day after, in a Woolcool insulated box. Nationwide delivery is GBP 6.99 under GBP 60 and free at GBP 60 and over, on a GBP 15 minimum order.

Work it out from the carcass weight, which is fixed and printed on every one of these products. Whole mutton is 30kg and half mutton 15kg; whole lamb is 16kg and half lamb 8kg; whole young goat is 18kg and half young goat 8kg. Each carcass carries a single fixed price on its own product page, so the per-kilo figure falls straight out of those two numbers. Remember that the listed weight is bone-in carcass weight, so compare like with like against a per-kilo counter price.