My dad and wife runs a deer process and in Jan it get busy. I guess people do not realize that the walk in freezer will only hold so much and they need people to pickup to make room for more they give 14 day to pickup and call folks several times to remind them. But like everything now a days a few bad apples ruin it for everybody. It cost a lot of money to run all the cooler and freezer and they try to get things cut off as soon as they can at the end of the season.

Sooo...what are you trying to say....

I did too....

Pickup meat on time or Don't be mad when the processor gets rid of it.

Hell if a processor calls me 3 days after I drop one off I’ll tell him to sell the damn thing. Unless I brought it quartered in a cooler. Mine hang a week or they don’t get left.

No one is arguing that people get busy, or that meat takes up room in a freezer. I would completely understand them selling it if I had been given a hard pickup time as I stated in the OP. This guy is butchering beef and his freezer is still running I would assume. It appears you are calling me a bad apple which is confusing because having my meat sold literally ruined nothing for anyone except myself. I appreciate you making a generalization and pointing out things everyone else knew and understood.

Thank you for such an enlightening statement.

When I lived in Baldwin County, the local processor had a waiting list and once March 1st rolled around, they would sell any remaining meat for processing costs. I've bought a lot in the past this way.

This one is one is on them and I wouldn't use them again if they didn't call and leave a message. How far away are you? An hour or two and you could have called and ran down there. Me, I prefer to pick it up no more than two weeks later. That is why I would say call next time and pick up between two to three weeks. Some like to let it hang for a month. Most processors want it out of the way and I can't blame them for that. You could quarter it and store in a cooler to bring closer to home to process next time. They may still be able to sale their venison to the feed the hungry program which may be what happen to yours. I was talking to one of the better processors/taxidermist and he said you would be surprised how many don't pick up their finished product. Hard to run a business that way.

Most processors wont hold deer after the end of season for maybe a week or so. I would not expect one to run a big walk in freezer for almost a month after season is over just to hold one deer.

Might want to ask the next processor you use upfront if he would hold one for a month after season ends for you or what his policy is.

I agree 100%. Deer have to hang for several days. A deer that is ready in three days is someone else's deer and i will not use that deer processor period.

The one i use told all of their customers that all meat had to be picked up by the 3rd of March or it would be sold.

yes

This.

I wouldn't have dropped a deer off at a processor at my hunting club that's a couple hours away on the last day of the season, knowing I wouldn't be able to get back down there for awhile. Common sense tells you they only do that type of work part time. I would have brought it home and dropped it at a local processor.

Our processor texts us when our deer meat is ready to be picked up, an excellent reminder!

Ya, I really think they just got busy over thanksgiving weekend and got some deer mixed up. I’ve never had that processed call me 3 days after I drop one off, it’s usually at least 2 weeks.

Well they called and you didnt come within a few days so its npt their fault.

My processor calls when its ready, about 8 to 10 days after you drop it off. Then they will call you back in a week to remind you its ready. He gives you a day or two then sells it if he has an opportunity.

He is a processor not a warehouse.