Butchering side hustles

Hi!

Sort of as a piggyback to the Local Meat thread, those of you with this particular talent may be in high demand soon. If you know how to butcher livestock, or if you can clean and dress a large game animal, I suspect that you could easily begin a side hustle of doing this for folks that purchase hogs or cattle from local ranchers.

If you are interested and know what you're doing, why not add your name to this thread, so people can see your location and they can then PM you and work out the deal?

Please note that this is simply a place for people to work out things between themselves; we haven't screened anyone as to their ability or skills and are providing this thread as an opportunity for members of the site.

Add yourself to the thread, and maybe about how long you've been doing this (hunters and homesteaders alike,) if you're looking for money or barter, and anything else pertinent...

Hopefully we can match up some skilled processors with people that have locked in some beef or pig!

A lot of good videos out there on youtube on how to carve up your own roasts and steaks from any form of a carcass. Looks pretty easy, just messy and time consuming, if I could only connect with an elk some day. Having the work space seems to be the most limiting factor, besides, it seems like a skill that everyone should try to tackle at least once in their life. I believe there are regulations on people that receive payment to process meat in that they need to be USDA inspected and so on so I don't see those people doing it outside of their workplace, could be wrong... However, I could see a large market/audience for selling the service as an educational experience where you instruct someone else on how to butcher their own meat, that could be a good side hustle in the off season.

Meat cutting is one of those services you pay a lot for not because it's incredibly hard but because it takes a good amount of reps to get good at it.

I've cut up deer and elk carcasses. It's not rocket surgery but I'm not fast or efficient and probably end up with more burger than I should. I'd probably be fine doing my own beef or hog but I don't think I could realistically ask someone to pay me to butcher an animal for them. Well, maybe a few beers....

It is a lot of work. I have watched several of "The Bearded Butchers," youtube videos since looking into our own beef. I have butchered deer and elk quite a bit. I dont think I want to do another bison, as that took several days to recover from. The meat was delicious, but I will try and find a butcher if we get another.

Luckily we have a cutter, Jose', lives about 2 miles from us. I'm check to see if i still have our guys contact info in N. Co

When we built our house in 2009, we did the one of the garages as a shop/processing station since the Wife and Mom were not happy with the 2 Elk my Dad paid to have processed. I was taught at 14 by a King Soopers butcher who was a family friend. Refined it some in competitions in 4H, as well as carcass judging. About 60 Elk, 100 Deer, 30 Pronghorn 100 wild pigs and a few hundred domestic animals. Not hard, keep knives sharp, plenty of clean trays to separate cuts. We buy a roll of plastic wrap from KS butcher shop once every 4 or 5 years and a bulk roll of butcher paper. The sausage takes the most time.

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Poultry processing - If anyone processes their own poultry I'll trade labor for knowledge as I plan on raising broilers again this year and will be doing my own processing. I'd like to learn hands-on.
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