Better get out the vaseline with that.I am not sure if they batch there deer proccessing but i buy most of meats and usually buy a Quater beef off them every year ! they have good summer sausage (Bison,deer, and beef ) My brother uses them for his deer proccessing ! i dont hunt! you night want to check them out
Manley Meats
302 south 400 east
Decatur ,Indiana 46733
260-592-7313
Manley Meats Decatur, Indiana - Offering Custom Butchering, Meat Processing Deer, Beef, Pork, Catering & Caterer
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Better get out the vaseline with that.
I took my first deer there, never took another one. My 145 lb dressed deer, cost $215 to process. All I got was cut meat, plus the remainder made into summer sausage. So to bone/skin, slice/cut the meat, then grind and make summer sausage from the rest cost $215? You've got to be kidding. I could buy meat for what I paid just to have it processed.
Better get out the vaseline with that.
I took my first deer there, never took another one. My 145 lb dressed deer, cost $215 to process. All I got was cut meat, plus the remainder made into summer sausage. So to bone/skin, slice/cut the meat, then grind and make summer sausage from the rest cost $215? You've got to be kidding. I could buy meat for what I paid just to have it processed.
They get my business every year. You should have skinned and quartered it yourself, that's what cost you the most. You could have saved $100 right there. I took in 85 pounds of meat from my antelopes (11 quarters) and had it made into 15 sticks of summer sausage, 10# of snack sticks, 5 # of jerkey and 25# of hamburger w/beef fat in patties. It cost me around $225. I challenge anyone to come up with better summer sausage than Manleys.
Learn to make your own and save about $200!
Thanks for all of the suggestions! I skinned and quartered my deer myself and will be making the jerky on my own. I need hamburger, sausage and snack sticks made. Is Lengacher Meats reasonably priced? About what is their turn around time?
Despite what others may have said, I still recomend Manleys. If you are still on the fence about them, you are welcome to come down and try some of the summer sausage/snack sticks I have. Their summer sausage is $3.50/chub or $6/stick 10# min., snack sticks are $3.50/lb 10# min., hamburger is $1/lb with beef or pork fat and pattied.
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take it manley meats their summer sausage is top notch ! if you are in doubt go in and ask for a sample of their beef summer sausage and i beleive you will be hooked also!
I was 13 years old, it was my first deer ever, and I had never even seen an animal butchered, let alone helped or done it myself, so I had no idea where to even start and I had no idea that it would be that outrageous. I do agree, however, that their summer sausage is the best I've ever had, I still get summer sausage made there, but I wouldn't call that "deer processing". I do all the cutting myself, and just take the scraps in for them to grind and make summer sausage.They get my business every year. You should have skinned and quartered it yourself, that's what cost you the most. You could have saved $100 right there. I took in 85 pounds of meat from my antelopes (11 quarters) and had it made into 15 sticks of summer sausage, 10# of snack sticks, 5 # of jerkey and 25# of hamburger w/beef fat in patties. It cost me around $225. I challenge anyone to come up with better summer sausage than Manleys.
I was 13 years old, it was my first deer ever, and I had never even seen an animal butchered, let alone helped or done it myself, so I had no idea where to even start and I had no idea that it would be that outrageous. I do agree, however, that their summer sausage is the best I've ever had, I still get summer sausage made there, but I wouldn't call that "deer processing". I do all the cutting myself, and just take the scraps in for them to grind and make summer sausage.
BTW, I'm not bashing Manley's processing, they're really the best, and the best don't come cheap. I'm sure they see a minimum of 1-2,000 deer a year (wild guess) for processing, so they have to charge higher to keep their workload manageable. But I just wanted to send out a warning to not take it there expecting it to be decent processing for cheap; what you'll get is great processing for half of your inheritance.
No, not at all. I just wanted to explain why I had done it the way I did. I was young and dumb; didn't know how to skin and bone myself. To be honest, I'm pretty sure I still remember the one thing that upset me the most. They charged $2.50/lb to slice "jerky meat". Not make jerky, just slice the meat for me to make my own jerky. I can go buy pork for less than half that much and slice it myself by hand and still be ahead. All it takes to slice meat is to drop it on a meat slicer and slice away. I know that there are other expenses involved etc., but it certainly doesn't cost them $2.50/lb to run meat through a slicer. But maybe I'm wrong. My 2000 estimate was being conservative, at first I put 2-4,000 but then thought I'd rather be safe and say at least 1-2,000 ("at least" means you can always go higher but can't go lower ).I hope you didn't think I was trying to attack you for anything, if I came off that way sorry. They do have rather high prices to skin and bone out a deer, that I will agree on. I can kinda see why they charge so much to do it, they had to build a seperate facility to do the deer in, hire and train people just to do deer, dispose of all the carcasses and get a massive workload for 3-4 months. I'll bet they see every bit of 2000 deer a year, people come from all over to get their deer done at Manleys.