Picked up my first doe of the year from the butcher today

WOW... I think I'll start up a deer processing business! After charging prices like that (and only being able to get away with it for 1 year), I'd retire in St. Thomas.

 

Wow! That's quite a racket he's running there. Anywhere between .65 and .80 cent a pound is about what I'd expect for burger and sausage. I can see paying a little more for sticks and cleaning. If we only field dress the deer they charge us $10 for skinning. If we bring them hams, shoulders, necks, etc. that are skinned and in pieces we pay the straight per pound price and can tell them how much beef or pork fat we want added. I'd be finding a new guy, doing it myself, or asking some detailed questions about pricing to the current place. A $250 doe is insane!

 

$85 is the steepest round here for standard steaks, roasts and burger. One amish guy will do backstraps and rest to burger for....wait for it.....$25-$35 depending on size and does so clean.

 

I have a place close to me that is 85 for basic processing, 10 less if you skin it first. They do a really good job, the guy that does most of it is a deer hunter himself and takes pride and doing the meat right. Summer sausage and snack sticks/jerky is very reasonably priced also. Think a log of ss is like 3 bucks, and a pound of snack sticks is like 2-2.50, and jerky is like 6 a pound with a 3 pound minimum.

They also guarantee the meat you get back is yours, except for the ss and snack sticks they will mix.

 

we have an Amish shop here that does basic processing (steaks, burger) for $65 and you are guaranteed your deer back. All the different sausages are anywhere from $2.50-$4.00 a lb and that is community meat. $250 is outrageous!

 

That is absolutely insane. We've made about 300lbs of summersausage/burger/keilbassa/breakfast sausage/snack sticks/jerky etc... for about the same price. Plus all the straps/roasts and steaks.

 

An I thought the 60$ I pay was high.....