Deer Processor gave me back the wrong Deer..Now what?

Use this equation to get you close:

Carcass weight = Field-dressed weight divided by 1.331
Ideal boneless venison weight = Carcass weight multiplied by .67
Realistic venison yield = Ideal boneless weight multiplied by .70

So for you to get 50+lbs like you expected your doe would have had to weigh ~150lbs dressed:

150 / 1.331 = 112.6972
112.6972 * .67= 75.5071
75.5071* .70 = 52.855 estimated lbs of meat.

 

What's the name if the place or at least the state your in?

 

Maybe an acceptance of your apology.

 

I dont trust my deer with anybody else...

 

Back in my home state of PA it has always cost me $40 to have my deer processed. That included how u wanted it fat added to the ground and everything if u chose. Never had a prob with them. I live in RI now and this is my first year hunting here and made the mistake of not checking how much it would cost for processing here. Well I got my first bow deer on 9/21/12 a doe.
This doe was a 1.5 -2 year old. Not a big doe but good sized. I yielded right at 26lbs of meat from her. I have no complaints about the butcher or job he did but I didn't realize it until a few calls were made that it costs on average about $100 around here to have a deer processed. My jaw hit the floor.. I was kinda stuck so I had to pay it that time but the following weekend I went out and bought the supplies to do it myself. Dang with 2 more deer I'll have paid for the equipment in the savings.

 

I hate butchering deer. Ill do it gladly out of necessity but given the choice ill always drop it off somewhere and not fool with it, even if they do take a few lbs off the top... A mid sized deer starting with skinning time, to quartering, trimming, grinding, processing, and packaging takes WAY more than an hour, a half day in my experiences.... My time of a half day doing something I don't even enjoy is worth way more than the $55 I spend dropping off a doe.

It's like work to me and my job pays better than butchering savings.


I don't begrudge guys who do it themselves and enjoy the heck out of it, I just don't care for the attitude against those who choose not to.

 

I have had some deer processed and I have a guy I trust to do a good job. George works really hard for the money he charges and will even come back in after hours if I call him . I still prefer to do the job myself, not so much for the $$ savings but because I do enjoy doing it myself for whatever reason. I hope I didn't portray a negative attitude toward those choosing to let someone else do it. If so, please accept my apology.

Every business is going to hire people from time to time who just don't care and unfortunately opinions are drawn based on those unprofessional meat-hackers. In this case, we don't really know what happened but it seems likely an expectation somehow ended in disappointment. Though it remains possible that the OP did indeed get a different deer than he dropped off, the weight of the meat received seems about right for an average adult doe.

OP, are the small loins you are referring to by chance the inside tenders? They would be about 8 inches long and about an inch or so thick. If your butcher even bothered to recover those, you are doing well.

 

Lazy kids.......

 

I don't always weigh mine after I pick them up, but last year I got back about 40 pounds of meat from a mid size buck. This year I got 70 pounds of meat from a big buck, and I couldn't believe it.

I would not be surprised to get only about 30 pounds from a doe. Also, if you are processing them all day, you are probably not trying to get every tiny little scrap of meat.

I would be more upset about getting someone else's deer than I would be about getting shorted a few pounds. I need to learn how to process one myself, but until then I just take it to the best processor I know of and hope that I'm getting my deer back.

 

Really??? We process our own here at the farm and get more than that. Good clean meat, very tasty. For 100 lb field dress weight we average between 40-55 lbs of meat in freezer.

 

So make it a little easier and just divide the dressed weight by three

 

Hey I am almost an engineer, I like numbers to be exact .

 

Have you weighed it or are you estimating? Even when I did my own I was lucky to get 25-30 from a deer that size. If those are weighed numbers you must spend hours scraping every little scrap of meat off you can find haha.

 

I would figure you should get back about 1/3 33% in bones out clean meat...so about 33 pounds for 100 pound deer. 28 pounds doesn't sound out of the normal realm of possibility.
I really think the majority of processors cutting deer aren't out to screw anyone. They just want to cut as many deer as they can as simply as they can...and make a buck for their labors.


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I usually get 45 to 50 percent of the dressed weight back in boned out meat.

 

a 1 1/2 yr old deer in the southern tier , Bath NY area is about 30-32lbs cut and packaged. It goes up from there. 40-45, 50-55. Thats about the most i have ever gotten. These are primarily corn deer. The 8pt buck my friend shot on opening day was a bit smaller than mine. I will attach a pic of our 2 day kill. The one on the far right is the doe.

 

I had two butchers tell me the same thing, that you don't necessarily get "your" deer back. They butcher a crap load of deer all day, and then later in the day divide and package it all up. Now I do it myself. I have absolutely no experience as a butcher, but do a decent job, and always end up with more meat than I got back when I paid someone. Plus when I do it myself I can be sure of cleanliness, and that the deer was handled properly prior to butchering. It takes me about 4 hours to skin, butcher, and package a deer, and I am getting faster each time I do it. Time and effort well spent IMO.

 

Yeah seriously look into processing your own. I do all the cuts I can, bag all the scraps and then when me and the kids are done I will take the scraps only to have salami, slim jims or what ever made but I have all the good cuts already!

 

I agree that i should start to process deer myself. I unfortunately am between homes and have no place to butcher a deer this year. I have had pretty good luck over the years, but this year i feel the pain! I am calling this guy at the end of the week and asking him for my $80 back. Thats about all i can do! Very sad.... took luscious tastie venison out of the mouths of my family and I!

 

Joe, you are less than 2 hours from me ... if you need help, I would love to come out and help you or you can bring your deer here... let me know...