Deer Dressing
I just read a 1999 article that I'd saved in my Wildgame Meat Folder.
The author claimed that it is typical of a butcher to mix in different deer meats with your deer meat.
Mad Cow (similiar) diseases can be spread from contaminated meats that you DID NOT bring in. [I guess in 1999 there were several cases in Colorado and a lot of folks to be on the safe side just garbaged their meats.]
The author gave a noval idea; Make friends with a Butcher's helper before Hunting Season. Hire him straight out to come do your deer on his day/evening off.
Pay him what the Butcher charges you.
Butcher may give him 20-dollars per deer to process. He'd be happy to make much more money.
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