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Deer Processors
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03/09/18 11:29 AM
03/09/18 11:29 AM
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I am NOT a fan of deer processors. Most of them are simply looking to make a quick, VITUALLY UNREGULATED, dollar.
Let's visit a slippery slope with CWD. Other than the nearly astronomical chance that a GW catches someone transporting a deer, or deer meat with bones......what protection is there to guarantee that the illegally transported meat does not wind up at your local processor? Heck, not only AT your local processor.....but, thrown in a vat with YOUR deer meat and cut/ground with YOUR meat and even packaged and sent home for YOU to eat!!!! Also, how is the disposal of their Waste Regulated? And, by who?? Isn’t that one known way that the prions are spread?? If so, just how serious are Govt Agencies about regulating the Waste and Controlling the Spread of this deadly disease?
I think the USDA, DCNR, AL Dept of Ag or somebody, needs to get serious about regulating them!
Last edited by Hogwild; 03/09/18 01:12 PM.
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Re: Deer Processors
[Re: jwalker77]
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03/09/18 02:25 PM
03/09/18 02:25 PM
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If processing a deer is a quick $55.00. I would hate to have to make it the slow way. I don't know where you are getting deer gutted, cleaned, processed and packed for $55......... But, even if you can, when you start multiplying that by a couple of hundred and figure 15 mins to clean and another hour to process AND it is all tax free......yeah, it is pretty quick and easy. Or, I suppose that they just popup all over the place every Fall because people are just overly generous! LOL
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Re: Deer Processors
[Re: Hogwild]
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03/09/18 04:21 PM
03/09/18 04:21 PM
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You can get a deer gutted, skinned, and processed (ground into burger, back straps left whole) for around $55.00 at South’s Finest in Pelham. They do quality work too. I’ve always been pleased. I do agree with what you’re saying though.
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Re: Deer Processors
[Re: jwalker77]
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03/09/18 04:49 PM
03/09/18 04:49 PM
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I gut the deer. I take mine to a legitimate business, so i would assume they pay taxes. My point is: if you are so good at it and it is such easy money, why dont you open a business? $55.00/hour is pretty low for a business to operate. If it takes them an hour to completely process a deer, i dont see how they stay in business. Well, to begin with....I make well over 1/2 that at my base pay now. And, I get OT and Bonuses....not to mention GREAT benefits. BUT, we do our own deer. On the time, if you were only doing 1 deer, and fully claiming all of the edible meat, it would take an hour of handling, cutting, cubing, grinding, packaging and stacking for freezer to do one right. But, I agree that by doing batches, it is a LOT faster. Which is one of the reasons why you do not get your own meat back and it is a mix of all the others....just like my post said. I am not arguing. No need to. I am very familiar with the business.
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Re: Deer Processors
[Re: Hogwild]
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03/09/18 07:43 PM
03/09/18 07:43 PM
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It's getting harder and harder to find a good processer around here. Last year I took a doe to a guy I've been using for years and never got it back. Called several times but voicemail was always full. Found out later it happened to a bunch of folks. Used a different guy that's been around for years the first deer I killed this year. Got the whole thing done in smoked sausage and it was horrible. The guy didn't smoke it, he just added a bunch of liquid smoke to it and ran with it. Sold that whole thing to my neighbor. Took my last one to another guy and had it done in smoked sausage also. Went to pick it up and he tried to short change me on it. Way less than the deer I took in. He ended up giving me some more packs out of the freezer but no telling whose box he shorted to give me that. I'm about out of options on where to take them now.
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Re: Deer Processors
[Re: Hogwild]
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03/10/18 04:44 PM
03/10/18 04:44 PM
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I am curious......
Would some of you guys REALLY quit hunting if there were no processors??
That is one of the most surprising things I have ever considered! I'm amazed at the quantity of folks that rely on processors to handle every aspect of game prep.
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
"I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the whole people, except a few public officers." George Mason
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Re: Deer Processors
[Re: Hogwild]
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03/10/18 11:15 PM
03/10/18 11:15 PM
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If only there was a way to check to see if the deer was killed in Alabama via a mandatory harvest reporting system.............
�We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.� ― Aldo Leopold
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Re: Deer Processors
[Re: Hogwild]
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03/10/18 11:29 PM
03/10/18 11:29 PM
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I am curious......
Would some of you guys REALLY quit hunting if there were no processors??
That is one of the most surprising things I have ever considered! I thought hunting was about horns, not meat, so the state tells us anyway. I don't hunt for meat. I hunt for bone....but I do keep some meat such as the back straps and maybe a quarter every now and then. What I don't keep I give to friends or co-workers. I don't use a processor and never will. I grind my own meat when and if I want burger. I'm guessing you're talking about brown it's down guys though or people who rely on ground beef or either the ones who have no clue how to skin and quarter a deer.
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Re: Deer Processors
[Re: Hogwild]
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03/11/18 08:33 AM
03/11/18 08:33 AM
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jwalker77
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I dont process my own because i dont want to, i dont enjoy it, i dont have all the tools necessary, not as experienced, mostly just dont want to though. I have done it before, it took me all day, i didnt enjoy it and i really wasnt confident in what i was doing. I guess its kind of like why people call me to cut their trees. They dont let their trees fall on their house and destroy it just because they dont want to do it their self, they call somebody who does it for a living. Why dont everybody who eats cow or chicken process their own? Why is that not a big deal to you? I have done that too but i prefer not to. I really dont even like to clean my own fish, but i do if i catch a mess to eat. How many of you pay somebody to cut your grass? Shame on you.......
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Re: Deer Processors
[Re: Hogwild]
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03/11/18 09:18 AM
03/11/18 09:18 AM
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I guess so.....
But, I also know that you possess all the necessary skills, hygiene and equipment to start a business processing deer meat.....because they are nearly non-existent!
Oh, if you guys knew what really went on behind the scenes......
By the way, if you ever catch me paying someone to cut a tree down for me.....you can make me eat some of that meat that was soaked in water for a week with grass, leaves, corn, acorns, and all other kind of fecal matter that is mixed in with everybody’s meat! LOL
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