After a productive year in the field it is always nice to see what it netted us in meat. This year’s take at our household included 1 Tule Elk, 1 Blacktail buck, 1 wild pig, and half of a Rocky Mtn Elk.
Tule Elk: Checked in Weight of 236 pounds with boned out loins and Bone in Shoulders and hams. I received back: 11 pkgs of boneless loin steaks, 28 leg steaks, 39 packages of ground meat, for a net of 115 pounds plus 30# of venison reserved for sausage. (145 pounds). I netted 61% of weight I checked in.
Wild pig: 180 pound skinned carcass checked in. I received back 4 packages of smoked ham (bone in), 2 shoulder roasts (picnic), 6 loin roasts (boneless), one package of Tenderloins, whole, and 31 packages of bulk country sausage, for a net of 57 pounds. I don’t think this includes the Ham weight though…
Erin’s Blacktail Deer was made into steaks, with 30 pounds reserved for summer sausage, and pepperoni sticks.
Rocky Mtn Elk
I gave half of this elk to a friend in Idaho, and the other half was checked in at 140#. (My previous elk carcasses weighed 283#. 386# and 407#) I requested all the roasts possible. The 88 pounds net was 62% (about the same as my partially boned Tule elk).
The meat processor I use bills based on the check in weight, with minimum amounts per animal. Smoking and Sausage are additional charges.
So right now I have a freezer full of 260 pounds of Steaks, Roasts, and the Sausage orders are trickling in. In October I received 30 pounds of Italian Boiling Sausage, in November, I received 30 pounds of Bavarian with Cheese sausage, and 30 pounds of Garlic Sausage. I recently had a call that Erin’s Summer Sausage was ready, and that leaves the Pepperoni Sticks (I’m expecting 30 # of each)
