I am definitely not supporting or calling killing animals in a fenced area hunting, but...

I think charging people to "Butcher your Own" by harvesting animals, any animals, in a fenced area has to be legal. If a farmer can walk up to a cow and shoot it between the eyes with a pistol to harvest the meat and hide and then sell them;then charging forthe "chore" of shooting and butchering a domesticated animal to someone willing to pay for it seems to be an extension of this. Think about it, a farmer can butcher and sell pigs, chickens, cows and sheep. A farmer can also raise and slaughter elk, deer, ostrich even alligators. If some person wants to pay the farmer, real good money, to do the slaughtering ... why not? Because it seems wrong? Because it is not "ethical"? Because it is not hunting?

The simple truth is it is absolutely NOT hunting, and the ethics of hunting are not applied to slaughtering domestic animals for meat, hide and even antlers. It is sad that the "hunting" institution has generated the interest for this because as a group "we" fuel the desire for the antlers/trophy. Is it really much different having a person buy on eBay a large racked elk mount and buying that same mount at a farm?

I personally believe that "hunting" has been a bit hijacked by the large financial industry around it, and that hunters themselves are as much to blame for the crap we are witness to. A true "hunter" would take more satisfaction in a spike bull harvested during the legal season paid for in the sweat and strain of the "hunt" then a world record bull harvested in an enclosure, regardless fo the size, that was raised for the sole purpose of being harvested by a paying customer. Unfortunately, the "industry" does not differentiate ... it's ok to love big trophies. If you want to buy the industry's version of one, that is ok in my book. But if you want to take a trophy intrue "Hunter's" opinion, then you can't go to a farm or ranch and buy one. Real "Trophies" can't be bought.