Fair price for a butchered carcass

[howa243]

For me at least £50.
You would get £35-£40 from the dealer for the whole carcass, so need to take into account your time plus the packaging costs.
Anyone who is not willing to part with £50+ can bugger off and buy less quantity for a ridiculous price.

Is it really possible to get £3.50 a kilo for a Muntjac? Thats interesting because I was being offered £1.25 for Reds. Am interested to know what percentage of a muntjac carcass is written off by a heart/lung shot?

 

[JockStalk]

With some of the high velocity cannon on here it’d just be 4 hooves and a nose left.

 

[VSS]

A 36kg fallow carcass (weighed in skin) would have been £72 if sold to game dealer. The same carcass, butchered by myself and sold direct to customers = £372
Therefore it stands to reason that the 10kg carcass given in the OP's example should fetch over £100.

 

[rms364]

As a little comparison, I've just looked on the internet for lamb prices, average for the suppliers I looked at:

Half lamb £30-40 (18lb of meat average)
Full Lamb £115 -£140

As a former "Robbing B*****d", our prices for Roe lion was £26:50 /kg . Now considering all the costs to get a carcass to a saleable condition such as £5 / day to run a walk in chiller, waste disposal, business rates, wages, packaging etc, etc £60 for a well butchered and packaged Roe is a very reasonable price.

Bit of advice if you are selling frozen venison (pics in the first post), vac pack it. Otherwise it will get freezer burn, look crap and can discolour when defrosted.

Also in regards to butchers 95% of butchers in England and Wales are not licensed to accept carcasses in the skin. As mentioned earlier, unless supplied to immediate family or friends, to sell carcasses you must be registered as a food business and if you are skinning to supply butchers, you will also need an approved skinning area and storage.

Average lamb (40kgs) at Mart atm is £100+, £17 killing charge and my butcher charged £25 to cut and vac pack. Just a comparison...

 

[fallow me]

Just sold a munty buck (Shot this morning) 16 lbs larder , skinned £25.00 , roughly £3.40 per kilo sold to customer who wants fresh meat, and you don't get no fresher than that, I make people believe there buying something really special , which they are with a munty, try and buy one from a super market , high street butcher etc, I always specify the carcass is wild and natural, two words that people will pay more for

 

[Chris1]

I get £75 for an adult Roe carcass..butchered and vac packed..steaks,fillets,shanks, a haunch, mince and stewing steak.

 

[User00056]

gamedealers generally paying £2.20-£2.40 a kg for Roe. So the carcass is worth £24 max

That buys you just over 500g of loin from me.

 

[Mike L]

Holy thread resurrection Batman!!!!!

 

[Deermanagement]

Donald Russell is a joke but a lot of people fall for it.

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Ahh....its ok now, I see they've dropped the price to £72/kg