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Quote from: Axle on November 06, 2014, 08:34:32 PMThink about it - if you cut up deer and elk for money, what do you think you would want per animal? If you are a small business, what would expenses be? What would you need to charge? Cutting one up is not a 5 minute job.I know that if I did that kind of work, I would charge big bucks too. Especially in tax-to-the-max counties. I actually worked in a slaughterhouse in the mid 70s and got some good knowledge and experience on what takes place. With that experience, all my friends and buddies would bring their ungulates to me to process. I usually got my cut (literally speaking). I've processed thousands of critters and though I love to do that, I would never complain about the prices you are referring to here.I'm not beating you up or complaining about what you are saying. What I would suggest is that you learn to process them yourself. There seems to be fewer and fewer who process meat. If I was a commercial processor, I would charge as much or more than the prices mentioned on this forum.A meat grinder is a nice thing to have and as long as you have access to the internet, you can learn how to cut one up.Happy cuttings!Axle pretty much summed it up. If you don't like what someone charges learn to do it yourself.If you don't ask for the cost up front and don't like the bill when you pick it up, it's not the buisness that screwed you. You screwed yourself by not doing your reasurch.The majority of the people that complain about buisnesses and prices are those that have never owned or ran a buisness. The way some talk they make it sound like anyone who owns a buisness just has money coming out of every orifice. That they can afford to do it cheaper or better for cheaper. The problem is the complainers have no idea what it costs to do buisness.
Think about it - if you cut up deer and elk for money, what do you think you would want per animal? If you are a small business, what would expenses be? What would you need to charge? Cutting one up is not a 5 minute job.I know that if I did that kind of work, I would charge big bucks too. Especially in tax-to-the-max counties. I actually worked in a slaughterhouse in the mid 70s and got some good knowledge and experience on what takes place. With that experience, all my friends and buddies would bring their ungulates to me to process. I usually got my cut (literally speaking). I've processed thousands of critters and though I love to do that, I would never complain about the prices you are referring to here.I'm not beating you up or complaining about what you are saying. What I would suggest is that you learn to process them yourself. There seems to be fewer and fewer who process meat. If I was a commercial processor, I would charge as much or more than the prices mentioned on this forum.A meat grinder is a nice thing to have and as long as you have access to the internet, you can learn how to cut one up.Happy cuttings!
Quote from: Band on November 09, 2014, 09:27:06 PMI would never show up at a butcher without first contacting them with and asking how much i would expect to pay for the service I was requesting. I cut and wrap my own game meat but I send perfectly clean and good condition meat to the butcher for grinding since my grinder is so small and painfully slow. The last couple of times I have sent 50-55 lbs. of grind meat and have been charged $50 to grind and wrap. Seems pretty reasonable to me.And I am guessing added some pork or beer fat to it. Great deal.
I would never show up at a butcher without first contacting them with and asking how much i would expect to pay for the service I was requesting. I cut and wrap my own game meat but I send perfectly clean and good condition meat to the butcher for grinding since my grinder is so small and painfully slow. The last couple of times I have sent 50-55 lbs. of grind meat and have been charged $50 to grind and wrap. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
Well its been a decade since this thread has been alive and I'd love to see the prices of the game that was mentioned on it I normally always butcher my own critters but with helping my mom move and my daughters sports schedule I went ahead and dropped off her elk at a butcher. We didn't get anything fancy done, steaks, burger, etc... Well dam I should've asked how much, $450 for a cow elk cut and wrapped. Not blaming the butcher, he's doing his job, not even going to say the shops name, just a stiff reminder of why I always butcher my own game and not to get lazy.
Quote from: TeacherMan on November 12, 2024, 09:33:20 AMWell its been a decade since this thread has been alive and I'd love to see the prices of the game that was mentioned on it I normally always butcher my own critters but with helping my mom move and my daughters sports schedule I went ahead and dropped off her elk at a butcher. We didn't get anything fancy done, steaks, burger, etc... Well dam I should've asked how much, $450 for a cow elk cut and wrapped. Not blaming the butcher, he's doing his job, not even going to say the shops name, just a stiff reminder of why I always butcher my own game and not to get lazy.How did that pencil out per pound?
Then with this just how much did he raise his price?https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,288697.0.html
Quote from: Ridgeratt on November 12, 2024, 09:53:14 AMThen with this just how much did he raise his price?https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,288697.0.htmlexactly why his prices are higher... I blame myself for not asking. But dam the last animal I had done was a nice bull moose in AK and I had the good stuff made with it, pepper sticks, etc, and this is what I paid for it.
