15 years ago
- Thread starter skywull
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And its not even the 1st April!
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Any game dealer who wasn't deducting for gut shot or shoulder shot deer must've been completely off his rocker. Either that or his flat-rate price was so low it didn't matter!
Absolutely zero incentive for stalkers to present better carcasses.
Sounds more like unhappy days to me.
Absolutely zero incentive for stalkers to present better carcasses.
Sounds more like unhappy days to me.
shakey jake
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Still trading
Still dealing in gut-shot deer?
shakey jake
Well-Known Member
What does it pay
I doubt if it was unhappy days, we got the same price off dealers in Hampshire , head shot or shoulder, the prices were often more than being offered by dealers else where in the uk, it’s probably exactly price what people are being paid today. Venison prices in the skin were 1 pound a pound for fallow and reds in the 80s 90s 2 pound a pound for roe.
What are prices today ? ( I am not there).
As to carcass presentation, they went field dressed straight to the dealer, strangely no one died from eating it, butchers bought it in the skin, no money making DSC involved.
For all of the alleged improvements in presentation , how much as the market actually grown per head of population. Please don,t quote % rises as we all know, 50% of nothing is nothing.
Deer farming which is actually what you do is a different operation, but I can guarantee that in real terms your prices are not much better, I don,t know if you claim subsidies or not, that is your business not mine, but as you know they are available.
No, deer farming is not what I do. I have no interest in farming deer whatsoever.
I do, however, have two deer parks. These are fenced areas containing herds of deer that are managed in the same way as wild deer and come under the same legislation as wild deer.
The park deer give me continuity of supply, enabling me to produce venison at times when my efforts to shoot wild deer have been unsuccessful.
Not sure what you're driving at here, but I do sometimes buy in carcasses, and I pay £4/kg. But they have to be headshot prickets or young does. Not interested in buying anything else.
I claim the same area payments as any other landowner. There are no direct subsidies relating to the deer that I keep. However, I did get a small business grant towards the purchase of my larder, as have many other stalkers.
Not sure I just had a Google and they exist still
Well said
I was chatting to a colleague. Think it was an avian setup, will check.
Nope.Deer farming then
Completely different.
