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re: Deer Processing?

Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:13 pm to
Posted by Chad504boy
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Member since Feb 2005
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Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:13 pm to
i just took my meat to fortenberrys and injected it with some salmonella, if i don't get sick eating my sausage, i'm going to be super pissed.
Posted by hawkeye007
Member since Feb 2010
5844 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:17 pm to
Indian Mound Grocery, they have been processing my deer for the last couple of year. Good price point and they make killer smoked sausge
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
38725 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:19 pm to
quote:

I heard that you don't get your own meat back


Well no shite. They are literally making sausage by the tons over the course of a season. Does anyone, besides the nephew of the owner believe they tag you ice chest, de-bone the meat, tag that, stuff sausage until that small pile is finished, tag that meat, then start the whole process over for the next deer?

Oh wait, I forgot, they tag the sausage, hang it, and finally box it according to your tag and set number of links made?

Or is it more reasonable that they weigh your meat, make sausage by the ton, and give you back your pro rated share? Think about it...

Back straps may be different, but the smoked deer sausage industry in Louisiana is communism at it's finest.
Posted by pointdog33
Member since Jan 2012
2765 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:50 pm to
quote:

smoked deer sausage industry in Louisiana is communism at it's finest.


The only time I can actually say communism is okay
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
38725 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:59 pm to


Most of that was in jest, but yeah, I've never expected to get my own meat back.

A few years ago I killed a big sow and took her quarters up to the processor. I got back all my weight in deer sausage.

This was Bellevue Meat Processors in Haughton, LA.
Posted by bluemoons
the marsh
Member since Oct 2012
5503 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:38 pm to
quote:

Does anyone, besides the nephew of the owner believe they tag you ice chest, de-bone the meat, tag that, stuff sausage until that small pile is finished, tag that meat, then start the whole process over for the next deer?


What makes you think I'm the nephew of the owner? They're just family. I'm really not going to debate it on an internet forum, but I have firsthand knowledge that this isn't the case there. Anyone is free to believe what he wants, and that's certainly the case with many processing businesses. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is neither here nor there, and frankly, it surprises me that more outfits don't mix meat. That being said, unless something has changed in the last two weeks, that's an incorrect statement regarding Whitetail Butcher Shop.
This post was edited on 12/1/15 at 3:42 pm
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
38725 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:44 pm to
quote:

that's an incorrect statement regarding Whitetail Butcher Shop.


10-4, I was just messing with you. I thought it was common knowledge they all mixed meat. I guess they don't...

quote:

What makes you think I'm the nephew of the owner?


Because I didn't memorize every detail of your post.

Posted by bluemoons
the marsh
Member since Oct 2012
5503 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:47 pm to
quote:

Because I didn't memorize every detail of your post.



Well that's just improper e-etiquette.
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
38725 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 4:15 pm to
How do they keep it separate?

Do they stuff each pile of meat and hang them in clusters per customer to smoke?

It just seems like a lot would have to go into keeping track of it all.
Posted by 4LSU2
Member since Dec 2009
37316 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 6:09 pm to
I dropped off 100#s of deboned venison at "The Boudin Man" in Mandeville yesterday. I'm getting sommer sausage, boudin, and smoked sausage from it. I'm not big on venison sausage at all, but everyone here that I've talked to has asked for smoked sausage. I'm givin smoked sausage for Christmas from this order.
This post was edited on 12/1/15 at 6:59 pm
Posted by LSUballs
RayVegas LA
Member since Feb 2008
37721 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 6:56 pm to
A lot of processors around here frown on or flat out refuse quartered up deer. Whole deer only. They butchery out your deer then move to the next
Posted by 007mag
Death Valley, Sec. 408
Member since Dec 2011
3873 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 8:25 pm to
quote:

They butchery out your deer then move to the next
That's how it should be. If I bring in a doe that was cleaned and cooled immediately I don't want to get steaks from a musky old gut shot buck that sat in the truck bed in Simmon's parking lot most of the day
Posted by bootlegger
Ponchatoula
Member since Dec 2012
5332 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 8:45 pm to
I use Vine's in Centreville for my ground meat. Don't get sausage made usually. Cut my own roasts. WhiteTail was always decent, but I quit using them about two years ago. A buddy's son killed his first deer, brought it to WhiteTail, they processed it and called to notify it was done, and when my buddy went to pick it up, they "didn't have it." No "hey we'll give you your next one free, give you X amount of meat, etc".

Flat out said we don't have your deer. Sorry.
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
166135 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 9:00 pm to
That's classy there for apologizing
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27348 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 10:07 pm to
Leroys in Grosse Tete will still do it if the price is right.

We get a hundred lbs or so done every year. Sausage and ground meat.
Posted by bootlegger
Ponchatoula
Member since Dec 2012
5332 posts
Posted on 12/1/15 at 10:14 pm to
Sausage, bacon burger, and turnaround were always satisfactory, I just couldn't believe they let a customer walk out the door empty handed. It was in their book where they had called to notify the order was ready for pickup....but it just disappeared.
Posted by rattlebucket
SELA
Member since Feb 2009
11420 posts
Posted on 12/5/15 at 12:05 am to
Took 50lbs of meat to cutrers in kentwood last week. Got half burger, the other half smoked sausage and breakfast sausage. $113 and so far I can say the best breakfast sausage Ive ever had. The smoked sausage is good too. They triple wrap the burger and breakfast sausage and flash freeze it. Very well wrapped for freezer. Smoked sausage wrapped fresh in plastic but not frozen and i wish it was vacuum sealed but I can live with it. I have to wrap the smoked sausage to freeze it now but overall they do good stuff.

Also they process only the meat you bring them. They dont mix other peoples deer meat with what you bring them. Good people.
Posted by Volt
Ascension Island, S Atlantic Ocean
Member since Nov 2009
2959 posts
Posted on 12/5/15 at 6:57 am to
quote:

Also they process only the meat you bring them. They dont mix other peoples deer meat with what you bring them. Good people.


The Cutrer's are as good as they come. That smoked sausage stays perfectly fresh frozen in those plastic bags for over a year. I'm just about to finish off last season's December batch.

Again, they do a farmers market somewhere in BR 2x/wk. They might pick up, transport, process, and bring back so that you never have to leave BR.

Promise you won't be disappointed
Posted by Dbro84
Ya moms house
Member since Nov 2015
67 posts
Posted on 12/5/15 at 11:12 am to
Thanks fellas. Have any of you heard of Catoires in French Settlement?

Very good, he is part of hunters for the hungry, awesome dude, great food
Posted by Outboard
BR
Member since Jul 2015
200 posts
Posted on 12/6/15 at 7:53 pm to
I have been super impressed with LeBlancs in Morganza.
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