Olde Tyme Meats, LLC

Olde Tyme Meats, LLC operates at 1711 Gabler Road in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, under establishment numbers M9640, P9640 and V9640. The FSIS directory lists the plant for meat processing, meat slaughter, and voluntary meat processing and slaughter, with a grant of inspection date on file of August 19, 2021. FSIS classes the plant as Very Small and lists cattle, hogs, sheep and lamb, and poultry among species slaughtered under inspection. The federal record places the plant in slaughter volume category 2.0. The plant also reports custom-exempt slaughter, in which animals owned by the customer are processed and packaged with Not for Sale marking.

The company website describes the business as a USDA butcher shop handling beef and pork processing, with an emphasis on farms that market meat directly to consumers. The site states that no citric acid is used on the hanging carcass, only hot water, that burgers and sausages are made without fillers, that seasoning is done without MSG, and that meats are smoked in the shop's own smokehouse with hickory smoke rather than liquid smoke. The site also describes what it calls Old World transparency, inviting customers to meet and question the butcher directly.

According to the About page, the business began during the 2020 COVID pandemic, when the Shank family purchased a butcher shop that had previously processed their own family beef and pork under the name Lil' Ponderosa. The site says the family carried out major renovations to increase production. Hours, pricing, scheduling terms and retail details are not stated in the material on file.

The plant states that it specializes in serving farms that market meat directly to consumers, and describes its process as humane harvesting, expert cutting and packaging intended for resale to a farm's own customers. It reports both USDA-inspected slaughter and custom-exempt slaughter to FSIS, so animals may be handled either for sale or as customer-owned, Not for Sale product. Species reported to FSIS as slaughtered under inspection are cattle, hogs, sheep and lamb, and poultry, while the website describes the shop's focus as beef and pork. Booking procedures, lead times, minimums, kill fees and cut and wrap charges are not stated in the sources on file.

Olde Tyme Meats, LLC reports custom-exempt slaughter to FSIS, which means it can process an animal a customer already owns (a whole, half, or share bought before slaughter) and return it in packages marked Not for Sale. Most small farms have one or two plants they book with, and the plant's calendar decides the delivery date.

Secondary listings describe Olde Tyme Meats as a local butcher shop that processes locally raised beef and pork and sells directly, but the company's own website does not describe a retail counter, halves and quarters, bundles, online ordering, delivery or shipping. Household buyers should treat retail details as unconfirmed and contact the plant at (717) 264-6787. The website notes that burgers and sausages are made without fillers, that no MSG is used in seasoning, and that meats are smoked on site with hickory smoke.

If you are buying a half or quarter animal, the plant is where the animal is processed; the farm sells you the animal. Read how to buy a half cow for the sequence and the math.