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We dropped off two moose dressed at the butcher totalling close to 1000b. After it was done we received around 600b . Is that normal to loose close to 40%?
Seems a bit much. I asked for bones as well. ..which i saw were there....How do they justify it?
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if all the bones....including spine, were in your boxes and included in your 600 lbs, 40% seems a bit high to me. Butchering our own for years we have generally found when doing boneless, with a hard trim we end up with approx 50% of hanging weight. Larger animals like moose a little better, smaller animals a little worse.
just my experience
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When you get your meat back from a butcher no matter, it always looks like it's not enuff?
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The moose we took to a butcher we got back 100% if you count the bones/waste which if I recall was 20% max . The 50 -55 % is meat from LIVE weight .
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100%? Your butcher spent no time trimming fat?
Always a big bag of dog food when I’m done trimming
Sausage, pepperoni, etc can increase weight as pork and fat added.
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I'm told roughly half of the weight of a moose is the guts, hide and head. Roughly half of what's leftover is what you take home. So 1/4 of the weight of the entire animal.
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I always figure 33% wrapped compared to on the hoof. A thousand pound moose will be 500 lbs hanging, about 150 lbs of that will be bones. So you end up with 350 wrapped.
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WRONG! 70% on domestic including bones is standard on custom cutting. 60% on wild game is pretty normal. Especially moose.
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Prior to this, I have always done meat processing by myself and ended up with a bucket full of offcuts....I use it all ...bones for soups,spine and neck for broths etc....the wast would not total to 10%. I told the butcher I want it all including bones...dont know if the spine and neck is in it.....but even if they were not there, would they account for 300lb?
Its probably my first and last experience with the butcher .....I was forced to do it due to fairly warm weather and bears.....
Not very happy...two beautiful animals and so much waste....
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