Processing pricing WOW

[elliscountyhog]

I dropped off 2 axis deer at the processor. Quatered and cleaned. Ready to just make into steak and burger meat. Got the call it’s ready for pickup. $340!!!!! Swore I paid $80/each last year. Looks like I will be forced to just take care of my own meat from now on instead of supporting small local. Anyone else seeing these prices or they just gone loco?

[bloodtrailer28]

That's ridiculous if all the did is steak it out and grind it!

[Pedernal]

I can’t help you out on the price, but I am curious as to how much meat you get from an axis deer?

[GA Bowhunter]

That's one of the reasons I cut them up myself. I'm cheap and I'm paranoid on how folks handle the meat.

[1riot1ranger]

dropped off quartered and ground and vacuum sealed is $1.10/pound other places are pretty much in line. It costs more to do more, add tallow, make sausage, etc. That price is way out of line if they only ground and packaged!

[Txhunter3000]

How big were the deer? that factors a lot into the price per pound

[tpack]

Eat’n ain’t cheap. Just part of hunting. Cost for all business’s gonna get passed on to the consumer.

[Kingfisher789]

Who was it so no body else gets surprised.

[Bisch]

I dropped off 2 at my processor last month. Had 10# each of breakfast sausage, chorizo, and smoked link sausage, and the rest into burger and it was $235. I'll pay that to not have to mess with it, and their products are really good!!!!

Bisch

[Greenheadless]

Did you have beef added to the burger meat?

[Bisch]

Did you have beef added to the burger meat?

If you are asking me, I had tallow beef tallow added to the hamburger meat.

Bisch

[Black Ice]

I dropped off 2 axis deer at the processor. Quatered and cleaned. Ready to just make into steak and burger meat. Got the call it’s ready for pickup. $340!!!!! Swore I paid $80/each last year. Looks like I will be forced to just take care of my own meat from now on instead of supporting small local. Anyone else seeing these prices or they just gone loco?

I dropped off a buck at Juniors last year and it was an old rutted down buck that weighed 140 lbs. Had them cut the straps into steaks and trim the tenders. They made the rest into breakfast and Jalepeno cheese sausage.

$750 for that and it was quartered. Most expensive deer I’ve ever had processed. It was a lot of sausage.

[S-3 Ranch]

Eat’n ain’t cheap. Just part of hunting. Cost for all business’s gonna get passed on to the consumer.

Yep !
I killed my buck and didn’t skin , quarter or bone it out because the weather turned hot ( 90’s) and rushed it to Klein in boerne , 20 lbs of jalapeño cheese links , 20 lbs of jalapeño ground steak, 10 lbs of breakfast sausage, 10 lbs of ground
whole backstraps
=
$420
$1 lbs processing fee , $35 skinning fee + some incidental fees where the killer that hammered me
my buddy skinned, quarter, deboned his and it was 1/2 the cost for same amount
Lots of lazy people where there that didn’t even gut their own deer = $50 fee
i tried adding up the cost of bringing in a whole ungutted buck weighing 160 lbs with the guts in
$160 processing fee
$35 skinning
$50 gutting fee = $240 before they even get to any sausage, or ground whole package or something else special

labor + owner cut , freezer, electric bill , property taxes add up pretty fast and are passed on to the customer of course

so skinning, deboning save a lot of money

[SC-001]

Processor prices are insane. Do it your self, the quality is always much better, the grinder we bought 10 years ago has paid for itself many times over.

[Low Fence]

Took a 220 live weight buck that I quartered and took up a combined 110qts of coolers

tenderloin whole
back strap cut 1/2
grind everything else with 20% beef plate added

$100…. and I got back all I expected. I wouldn’t clean my kitchen for $100

when you go making sausage and novelty stuff the labor and materials go way up! That’s just a fact