Nickb
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45 years ago used to get £1 a rabbit too
Venison Prices
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Not questioning that, just pointing out the past.
Some people's kitchens are a lot cleaner than some registered food businesses!
norma 308
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Feed 4 dogs 50% venison the other 50 is professionally made raw who incidentally buy my spare venison at a fair price or we swap so the dogs are doing just fine I take a few off mates too we justify what we take as I have heard locally muntjac being fed to wildlife ! Wasteful and lazy
Hi Graham, nothing gets old in the environment we work in, mature bucks are virtually non existent. The two deer came off a contract, I was travelling to Newton so decided to drop them off, normally can't give them away. Never seen it so bad that no one wants them. We use to take them to the Barony but they have stopped taking anything other than head shot..
We have the same problem Neil with Fallow. The local dealer wants them head or neck shot, pays peanuts and buys from anybody, whose details go on the tags I don't know.
I won't sell to folk like that, we deal with butchers and give an awful lot away to anyone who wants them. Even giving them to lads for dog food. It's grieving but better than going to a friend's and incinerating them. The estate wants a bigger cull of does this year, 30 more than last season so it becomes a bigger problem and more diesel for the incinerator.
Interesting.
I've just had 3 orders come in for complete butchered carcasses. That's about £250 - £300 per animal.
I wish there were more deer around here, quite honestly. I have to turn customers away sometimes due to the lack of deer.
Completely opposite to what I’m finding. More people than ever are after it
HonestJohn
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i honestly think it depends how hard your marketing or pushing it ... hard for a start but once you get a small handful / half dozen folk taking regular ..ish .... i found it gets bit easier ... word of mouth i guess... small social media page ... announce when you have stock, put a bit of a story behind it the provenance of wild meat that's free range as you can get etc.
i find plenty folk asking for it but out of that i reckon 50% are just paying lip service ... as when you do have stock for sale ... tumbleweed they aren't to be seen , yet if you announced it was free I'm guessing be inundated .
I'm at point that for what I'm needing to sell and what i use as a family i could be doing with more deer
do think you need to put time into pushing / promoting it tho
Paul
i find plenty folk asking for it but out of that i reckon 50% are just paying lip service ... as when you do have stock for sale ... tumbleweed they aren't to be seen , yet if you announced it was free I'm guessing be inundated .
I'm at point that for what I'm needing to sell and what i use as a family i could be doing with more deer
do think you need to put time into pushing / promoting it tho
Paul
In Scotland, my nearest game dealers are 40 miles away in either direction, so the price is immaterial because I'm not going there.
So for me some venison ends up in the freezer where I give it away to people (cheaper and more interesting than buying people wine etc.) Ive trained up a few local people to butcher deer and they just get a carcass on their doorstep now. Plus I use Facebook Giving Up The Game and Open Food Network via food business. I sell well shot roe for £30 with fur on or £50 skinned. To be honest this is a bit of a faff in terms of logistics and organisation, I often end up doing some last minute butchery when I see the state of people's car boots that they intend putting a deer into!
So for me some venison ends up in the freezer where I give it away to people (cheaper and more interesting than buying people wine etc.) Ive trained up a few local people to butcher deer and they just get a carcass on their doorstep now. Plus I use Facebook Giving Up The Game and Open Food Network via food business. I sell well shot roe for £30 with fur on or £50 skinned. To be honest this is a bit of a faff in terms of logistics and organisation, I often end up doing some last minute butchery when I see the state of people's car boots that they intend putting a deer into!
HonestJohn
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Careful with selling game unlicensed, assuming you are unlicensed.
My point was that people are asking for it. There's no lack of interest.
I don’t think so. Making money is not my strong point. Enjoying what I'm doing comes much higher up my priority list.You should go on dragons denmaking money off venison!
It's definitely the story that sells the product, so in that respect a lot comes down to who you are. If you can tell the story well, and enthuse the potential customers, they will buy it. If you can't, they wont.
I solve that problem by butchering to order, as far as is possible. I carry very little stock.
(The exception being when prepping for an event such as a food festival).
Same here
I don't know what it's like where you are, but here in Wales small businesses can get a lot of help with promotion, marketing, product development, etc etc
I'm in Angus NE Scotland about 20mins away from Stu /Quioxte on here
I'm bit different rom other vendors in that my main job is offshore and I'm not on rotation i work adhoc/ as & when ...so i cant rely on others / events or timetables .... its a case of when I'm home i can shoot & process but i keep stock and i sell frozen vak packed.
so i simply try via a Facebook page / word of mouth when i have stock ...its not ideal but it works to a degree ..
Paul
I don't want to bore you with the details (and its a bloody licencing minefield thanks to local/national government) but let's just say I am comfortable with my current status.
I also thought the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill is scrapping Venison Dealers licences, reviving the 'hunters local exemption' that exists in England?
Provenance and personality are the main selling points.
Maybe it's you they're not interested in, rather than your venison?
A quick Google search does show that there are people successfully selling venison in Northumberland, so there must be some level of demand.
we still come under hunters exemption in Scotland and the Venison Dealers Licence is like old game licence ... a vagary of law that its required but has no "meaning" we cannot deal per say as in game dealer and buy in carcasses.. you may only sell from an animal you've killed or had a hand in killing yourself
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