Game processing costs in your area?

[eastkoot]

Just curious as to what meat cutters are charging per pound in your area for processing wild game???
45 - 65 cents per Lb. here..Ones private the others a butcher shop..

[bc kid]

i get a flat rate but anywere from 75.. to a 125 deppending where you go and if you stick with the same butcher

[Steeleco]

Cost me nothing but time LOL The cost and availablity in the LML a few years ago was getting too much for what you got. I did ask a place last week north of Kamloops in case I needed them.
I was told $.95/lb with a $5/day hanging charge and a min of $125 and to expect a $200 bill all in. To say they were out to lunch is an understatement.

[rocksteady]

Supply and demand....Ain't it a wonderful concept...

I think in Cranny its .65 per lb...No cost for the hanging...That's built in...

[steveo44]

I have heard some people charging up to 90 cents a pound.I was charging a flat rate $60 for deer boned out,ground and wrapped.Got sick and tired of people bringing me rotten stuff,not wanting to show me tags and license and bitching about price,so now I just do it for family and close friends.

[elkdom]

about a $1.oo per pound around Dawson Creek that is based on what the animal weighed comming INTO the butcher shop, and does not include any sausage or jerky etc,,,,,,,,cured sausage and jerky etc is about $2.50 a pound above that

[houndsman]

I have a shop in the shuswap & I charg 65 cents per lb

[Gateholio]

Is the per pound charges based on recieved weight or packaged weight ?

I've been asked a few times to butcher peoples deer. No way I would even bother for less than $150 or so for cut and wrapped and some ground.

[elkdom]

about a $1.00 per pound around Dawson Creek that is based on what the animal weighed comming INTO the butcher shop, and does not include any sausage or jerky etc,,,,,,,,cured sausage and jerky etc is about $2.50 a pound above that

and if you are VERY lucky you may get YOUR own meat back,

plus $2.00 each for cardboard boxes to take your meat home with, plus extra charges for disposing of bones, plus extra charges for quartering animals, actually, it is almost cheaper to buy cut and wrapped BEEF than pay these local bandits to cut wild game,,,

[elkdom]

Is the per pound charges based on recieved weight or packaged weight ?

I've been asked a few times to butcher peoples deer. No way I would even bother for less than $150 or so for cut and wrapped and some ground.

up north here it is $$$ per pound on the hook when it ENTERS the meat cutter shop !

[ROEBUCK]

recieved weight !
which is why I learnt how to do basic butchery !
making ground making sausage &peperoni and cuting and wrap
takes me nearly all day to do a moose but well worth the effort !

[Gateholio]

Somebody must be paying it if they are staying in business:)

I dont begrudge meatcutters a penny, if they do a good job. ;)

[ROEBUCK]

exactly !
lots of costs ! staff, storage, ingrediants, tax time!
but my money is better spent elsewere.!

[Doe]

The only time I paid to have a deer cut and wrapped .....was late season, tripple header the week before for our party...I did so out of being sick to death of doing my own....and it was the dirtiest, rankest, hairiest thing I have ever smelled...and had bone through it. Never again for any price. I think it was about 110$ for a fork buck.

[solo]

Cost of 100 pounds of deer meat:
-gas $200
-license and tags $100
-rifles and shells $50
-food $300
-range fees/memberships $100
-flat tire and new muffler $600
-lost time from work $1800
-taxidermy for trophy $1200
-medical fees for beaver fever $3198
-divorce $198,632
-new gun (wife got old one in settlement) $2100
-beer $240
-meat cutter $250

Total $208770 for 100 pounds = $2087.70 per pound!

[Tron]

I was recommended a place that is .75 per pound cut and wrap for anything over a 100lb's. Under a 100lb's flat fee of $80

[Edge]

How bout now? any updates

[j270wsm]

My butcher charges $50 for deer and $150 for elk/moose. Boned out, cut and wrapped the same day it's dropped off( no cooler for wild meat ).

[wideopenthrottle]

buddy just got a nice new band saw last year for ribs and steaks...every thing else is pretty straight forward (utube for instructions)... consider doing your own smaller deer...once you have done a few you will not wanna pay someone else to do it especially if you can get a couple of helpers on a bigger animal...

[Boner]

I butcher my own if it's later on and cool enough. If I have the time. If I'm working it's cheaper to take it to the butcher no matter what the cost is.

Its pretty close to $600 to take a moose where I get mine butchered. Nothing fancy either. They do a good job, but not $600 good.

[matt420]

havnt a clue haha I do everything my self much cheaper and its really not as hard as a lot of people think ,, its not even that time consuming for me either I can get a deer done by myself in a few hours no problem that's de-boning and butchering ,, but I know people that have taken deer to places around where I live and has cost upwards of $400 for hanging and butchering and iv heard stories of butchers mixing peoples meat together to get it done quicker ect,, people I know have found bullets in their meat when they made a head shot of the deer,,, only time I take mine to a butcher is if its to warm to hang at my house they only charge me a few dollars a day to just hang it and I go back and pick it up and bring it home and finish the rest

[Barracuda]

yup do it yourself

[Steeleco]

Outside the space consideration, learning how too should be top priority. Soon enough there will be only a few cutter that are willing or able to cut game. Each year it seems I'm taking cutters off the list not adding them.

[204rug.ftw]

cost me 75 bucks to get a deer done 2 years ago in town here, they been cutting game iin town for long time, that was 4 days hanging, and 123 lbs of meat. they do real nice job aswell. half ham b. half roasts all packaged and wrapped. I like supporting the local cutters because they need to earn a living too

[Bobfl]

go on utube, you can learn everything you need to know to do it yourself. I'v being cutting myself for 30 yrs and the net has a lot of info that I did not have back when I started first cutting. you will not get every cut on your first attempt but you will still get 70%.

[guest]

Do it yourself or with hunting partners ...... Save big coin ........ A lot of self satisfaction doing it yourself. You can always take trim or burger meat in to grind or sausage if you don't do these things yourself.

[Phreddy]

I was recommended a place that is .75 per pound cut and wrap for anything over a 100lb's. Under a 100lb's flat fee of $80

And where is that Tron?

[HarryToolips]

My costs = costs of ziplock bags...

[sawmill]

6 pack, roll of butcher paper, roll of saran wrap and some tape. I have not taken an critter to the shop ever since a local butcher dumped my perfectly clean skinned deer on the ground and said he would get to it later. I have a grinder, a sausage stuffer and a Bradly smoker. Been doing my own for 10 years now and the quality is perfect.Sausages, bacons, hams, steaks and roasts. When I open a pack of meat there are no bad surprises.