avg boneless yield on roe deer?

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Sol

Sol

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Butchered the doe I posted a few days ago and ended up yielding about 7.5lbs of meat, I'm curious what the normal expectations are I'd guess 10-12lbs? this doe was rather skinny once skinning with a triangular sunken in spine, she looked a lot nicer on the hoof than dead and skinned I admit!

Seen three of her group-mates today and we wont even bother shooting them now.
 
Sol said:
Butchered the doe I posted a few days ago and ended up yielding about 7.5lbs of meat, I'm curious what the normal expectations are I'd guess 10-12lbs? this doe was rather skinny once skinning with a triangular sunken in spine, she looked a lot nicer on the hoof than dead and skinned I admit!

Seen three of her group-mates today and we wont even bother shooting them now.
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I typically get 4kg off a cwd so 7.5lbscis light for a roe
 
wytonpjs

Post in thread 'Roe Carcase yield'

To compliment by roe example at post 8, this is the equivalent for my last fallow pricket. Carcass larder weight 33.6 kg, yield 15.146kg, ie 45% with a potential sale revenue of £220.44

Spookily, the yield percentage is exactly the same as for my last roe :-| Both were chest shots - must be the way I butcher them:oops:

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Sol said:
Butchered the doe I posted a few days ago and ended up yielding about 7.5lbs of meat, I'm curious what the normal expectations are I'd guess 10-12lbs? this doe was rather skinny once skinning with a triangular sunken in spine, she looked a lot nicer on the hoof than dead and skinned I admit!

Seen three of her group-mates today and we wont even bother shooting them now.
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That seems very light were the shoulders destroyed and did you bone out the ribcage and neck ?
 
7.5lbs = 3.5 kgs. I would normally get double this, so this is light. However lots of variables:
- if you hit a shoulder bone, this pretty much wastes both shoulders.
- How long you spend boning out neck, front legs etc. Normally diminishing returns kicks in and I give up, especially if I ditch fat and tough bits. I tend to just ditch the ribs on a roe.
- how much bone you leave on. I currently like slow cooking sliced shanks, so the bones get weighed plus the femur.
 
Chris Richardson said:
That seems very light were the shoulders destroyed and did you bone out the ribcage and neck ?
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Almost no shot damage this time around I was able too wipe away any damage for the most part, genuinely attempted too harvest all of the meat that Is sensible too send through a mincer on the rib-cage etc.

shoulders were perhaps a little more wasteful than normal, but being skinny there wasn't really a lack of sinew compared too a normal deer so It was just low meat, high sinew something that couldnt exactly be minced.

One thing not included in that weight was the meat off all four shanks, so there's a little more but not that much.
 
deer should be fit/have plenty of muscle all year round so it sounds like an old girl on her way out. Get another shot and compare.....
 
nick.308 said:
deer should be fit/have plenty of muscle all year round so it sounds like an old girl on her way out. Get another shot and compare.....
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yeah pretty unusual body weighs for our area, I admit usually there pretty decent carcass weighs with the best buck coming in shy of 40lbs last year.

She was barren with no sign of any lactation this year with at least one fawn inside her, teeth wise back looked fine enough but she was missing two front teeth with a bit of orange staining I would agree with an old girl too.

Internally heart felt a little soft, lymph nodes a little large but still normal looking (I put this more-down too the fact they werent fat covered, so abnormal looking too myself) and a little bit of black flecking in the rumen, didnt look parasitic looked more like something she was feeding on.

Kidneys, Liver, Lungs etc looked fine.
 
Sol said:
Butchered the doe I posted a few days ago and ended up yielding about 7.5lbs of meat, I'm curious what the normal expectations are I'd guess 10-12lbs? this doe was rather skinny once skinning with a triangular sunken in spine, she looked a lot nicer on the hoof than dead and skinned I admit!

Seen three of her group-mates today and we wont even bother shooting them now.
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Better if you got rid of the rest, make some grub available for others that you haven’t yet caught up with, IMO.
 
So while butchering a doe follower from a couple of days ago this thread got me thinking, sadly I didn’t weigh her before but full venison yield off her was 6.5 kg ( I didn’t bone out the ribcage and the neck was destroyed from the shot ) very average weight follower and all boneless cuts , mince steak diced
 
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