Kelsen's Home Kill & Processing

Kelsen's Home Kill & Processing For all your on farm home kill and game requirements, we've been servicing Taranaki and Whanganui areas since 2011.

We are based in Hawera and are South Taranaki born and bred. Qualified butchers with 50+ years combined butchery experience. We kill and process cows and sheep at your location or you can bring to us with prior arrangement, we also process venison and pork. Please note we are not a retail or wholesale butcher shop - we provide a MPI registered home kill service to farmers/life style block owners a

nd we are a recreational catch service provider for hunters. We have been in business since 2010 and are based in Hawera.

The massive beefie we did in our "guess the weight" comp has now been processed. These photos show how big the quarters ...
02/07/2026

The massive beefie we did in our "guess the weight" comp has now been processed. These photos show how big the quarters were.

As a home kill service provider we can't take credit for the end quality of your meat - you feed it, you nurture it, you care for it. We respectfully take care of it at the end of its life to provide you with the product you grew. This animal was a credit to its owners.

The steaks on this monster were impressive, our customer chose to have them vacuum packed in whole cuts.

22/06/2026

AND THE WINNERS ARE:

555KG ON THE HOOK WEIGHT: GRAEME HOULAHAN AND KANE HETHRINGTON ARE JOINT WINNERS - SO THEY WILL EACH RECEIVE A KNIFE AND POUCH. PLUS DAYNA JURY WHO ALSO PICKED 555KG - SORRY FOR MISSING THIS, YOU'LL ALSO GET A KNIFE SET!

AND GRAHAM WILLIS FOR LIVE WEIGHT - HE GUESSED 1132KG WHICH WAS CLOSEST TO 1134KG, A KNIFE AND POUCH ARE COMING YOUR WAY GRAHAM.

THANKS EVERYONE - THERE WERE SOME REALLY CLOSE GUESSES - MANY ONLY 1-5KG OUT!!

BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME. WE WILL PRIVATE MESSAGE THE WINNERS FOR CONTACT INFO FOR THEIR KNIFE SETS, THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!

NO MORE GUESSES - TIMES UP, WE'LL GIVE YOU THE WINNERS NAMES SHORTLY EDIT:  GUESSES WILL CLOSE AT 6.00PM TONIGHT - AND W...
21/06/2026

NO MORE GUESSES - TIMES UP, WE'LL GIVE YOU THE WINNERS NAMES SHORTLY

EDIT: GUESSES WILL CLOSE AT 6.00PM TONIGHT - AND WE'VE ADDED ANOTHER KNIFE SET - "ON THE HOOK" MEANS SKINNED, GUTTED, NO HEAD, QUARTERED - SO WE'LL DO TWO SECTIONS - "ON THE HOOK" AND LIVE WEIGHT SO NO THERE'S NO CONFUSION :) (is on other pages too)

Guess the on the hook weight of this 4 year old Hereford Steer we did last week! Correct or closest weight will win a hunting knife and pouch worth $100 - only for NZ residents please so we can post.

And last but not least for today is this wonderful email we received from Kylie & Steve who are new customers from Whang...
13/06/2026

And last but not least for today is this wonderful email we received from Kylie & Steve who are new customers from Whanganui - thanks heaps, these comments are very much appreciated!

Flick us a message via text or messenger if you would like to book your animal in - we cover Taranaki and Whanganui.

P.S. We also will NEVER do the quarter boning race - we pride ourselves on quality boning and meat yield, not rough as ----!

Sausage races - well that's a different story ... watch this space.

We've got a bit of time today, so apologies for the photo dump :)  We thought that we might start showing how we pack pr...
13/06/2026

We've got a bit of time today, so apologies for the photo dump :) We thought that we might start showing how we pack product, today we'll start with sheep - hogget and lamb are hung for at least 5 days (yes we age sheep too) and are cut up how ever you want them done. That saying, a "standard pack" is: legs in half, shoulders b***d and rolled, loin chops free flowed and then you will also get a pack of shanks and neck chops. We charge $65 (excl gst) to process your sheep ($45 to "dispatch" can't say the "k" word - fb doesn't like it), we do not charge for packaging, free flowing, rolling, stuffing or freezing - this is all included in your $65 for a standard pack.

One thing we would like to point out is that as a "mpi registered service provider" we are exactly that - a "service provider" we come in and dispatch your animal, bring it back to our premises where its hung and processed, WE HAVE NO CONTROL over the quality of your animal ie how you have grown it, what you've fed, how fat or skinny it is so we can't turn your old ewe into a yummy lamb :) We do however treat your animal with respect at the time of dispatch at your property, in our chiller (temperature and aging) and at cutting up and packaging time. We don't sell meat, we come to your property and do anything from 1 sheep to 20 or more at a time.

Last week we welcomed Rielly Kumeroa-McKenna to our small team.  Rielly comes to us with nearly 10 years of meat industr...
13/06/2026

Last week we welcomed Rielly Kumeroa-McKenna to our small team. Rielly comes to us with nearly 10 years of meat industry experience and is already proving to be a valuable asset to our business. He is keen, eager and willing to learn. Even better - he is the baby butcher's Uncle, Kelly's son and Brearna's bro in law :)

Look out for some sausage making comps real soon :) We think Rielly might give Brearna a run for her money!

27/05/2026
Out and about today in our amazing part of the country. We have the best of the best here in the Naki and Whanganui - th...
25/05/2026

Out and about today in our amazing part of the country. We have the best of the best here in the Naki and Whanganui - the mountains, the sea and the land. After a productive weekend hunting for a bit of veni for our freezer we're back at it again today.

Give us a call when you are ready to have your beefie or sheep done, on your farm or lifestyle block or even your town section (we're pretty quiet :).

18/03/2026

F******k just cost $200 to fill the ranger with diesel!

The baby butcher has arrived!! All 8 pound 9 ounces of her, welcome to this crazy world Kyree and huge congratulations t...
17/03/2026

The baby butcher has arrived!! All 8 pound 9 ounces of her, welcome to this crazy world Kyree and huge congratulations to Brearna and Jarrad - you are going to be amazing parents.

Address

280 Denby Road
Hawera
4672

Opening Hours

Monday 6am - 6pm
Tuesday 6am - 6pm
Wednesday 6am - 6pm
Thursday 6am - 6pm
Friday 6am - 6pm
Saturday 8am - 12pm

Telephone

+64273290435

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