The Pig of the Cantal breeded with chestnuts
     
  IN THE HEART OF THE MOUNTAINS OF CANTAL
THE STOCKBREEDERS OF TRADITIONS
In the chestnut plantations and the mountains green, countries of harmony, the peasants chose to listen the old ones for breed their pigs. they propose a trust contract to the consumers which they ensure the quality.
Due to their consultings and their experience, they remain the tradition by their common sense and their know-how. The breeding of the pig " old fashion style " rebirth to let us discover a true product and of high quality: THE CAPELIN. 		 
         
 

THE SECURITY OF A HEALTHY BREEDING, IN THE CANTAL
 The breeders of CAPELIN, located in the Cantal, have been selected for their know-how and their motivation. The pigs which they breed must follow a schedule of specifications :

  • Feeding with cereals and chestnuts
  • Absence of growth activators
  • Medical Follow-up throughout the life of the pig
  • Pigs breeded on litter for the comfort of the animals and an preserved environment
  • Animal selected for their meat quality and their aptitude to provide heavy muscular carcasses
  • Integral tracability from the birth to the customer, for pigs born, breeded and slaughtered in mountain.

 

MARKETING & COMMUNICATION
Know-how and to let know are two keys of CAPELIN developpement :

  • Leaflets
  • Posters
  • Tracability card of
  • Spade-price

The customers butchers porkbutchers are regularly invited to visit our breeding.

 

QUALITY CONTROL
The conditions of breed, transport, and slaughter of the pigs are determinant for the final product quality. All the production outpout is optimized to give a good product and the check points are allways controled by two technicians especialy in charge of the CAPELIN :

  • Scheduling control of the conditions of production and loading of the animals (feeding, calibration of the pigs, quay of loading, corridors, preparation in separated batches...)
  • Transport within a specialy equiped sanytary vehicle (slope of brumatisation, ascenor...)
  • Stalling by batches at the slaughter-house at least 4h before blood-letting, brumisation of the cabins
  • Systèmatic Measurement of :
    • pH
    • temperature
    • weight and classes
    • default of aspect (pétéchies, ematoma...)

     

These points are for the butcher the guarantee of a constant quality product. A card accompanies each pig. It attests origin of each animal.

 

AN EXCLUSIVENESS "BUTCHERS PORKBUTCHERS - DELICATESSENS"
The CAPELIN pig is reserved to a traditional pork-butchery retail distribution; it is thus for the butcher the best occasion to differ from the other distribution systems by proposing an original meat of quality than the consumer will not find nowhere elsewhere.