Now is the time to gather friends and family for a traditional British Hog Roast with our special Hog Roast offer at Ocado. We're offering a discount of £1 off per kg on orders for our Duchy Originals Free Range Pork Shoulder placed before the 20th of July or till stocks last. Our succulent, sweet and tasty Free Range Pork Shoulder Joint is stuffed with a roasted shallot and sage stuffing and has everything you need to entertain a large gathering, including some bramley apple sauce! Simply follow the cooking guidelines provided on the pack, carve the joint, and serve with the delicious hot Bramley apple sauce and soft granary bread rolls.

The Duchy Originals Free Range Pork Shoulder Joint is available exclusively through Ocado, click here to buy.

All our pork comes from dedicated free range herds in Norfolk, where the animals are reared to spend their lives in open fields giving them the freedom to roam, root around and socialise in keeping with their natural instincts and behaviour.

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Last Saturday we sheared the sheep, we had hoped to start at around 7.30am in the morning but a completely unexpected shower at 5am scuppered that plan. You can't shear the wool when it is damp because it won't flow over the cutters and storing damp wool is a bad idea.

It's only the ewes we shear. They need to be shorn to stop them getting too hot and to reduce the incidence of fly strike, caused by flies laying their eggs on the animals, which occurs during the summer months. The lambs are now between seven and nine weeks of age and although they are getting quite big they don't need shearing. The first job we have to do is to shed the lambs through a drafting gate to separate them from their mothers which creates a bit of a din as they call for each other.

The shearers then arrive and set up their equipment and off they go. Because they are paid per head, the quicker they work the more they earn - in wet weather they earn nothing so when conditions are right they really go for it. The shearers are incredibly skilled and can shear a ewe in less than a minute and a half. Two of the shearers we use shear all around the world for most of the year.

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