I’ve ran across a couple of situations in my day that made me cringe when it came to the way some folks handled their meat prior to processing it. The worse was a couple of years ago. I was coming into Rosharon on my way to work when a young buck decided to dart out and challenge my car to a head too head duel and if there was a real winner, it was the car. The buck was in pretty bad shape so I dispatched him on the side of the road and headed to work. After daylight I took a couple of pictures of the hair around the damaged area of my car but decided I would swing back by on my way home and get a picture of the deer just Incase the insurance company gave me any lip. Well to my surprise the deer was gone. I knew he didn’t walk off due to the fresh hole I put in his head so I started looking around thinking maybe a dog tried dragging him off...nope, the house closest to the scene had him on the front porch skinning him...14 hours later...in June...in SE Texas...in June. In their defense, he was probably still warm from being in the sun ALL day. I informed them what time I hit him but they kept on skinning [emoji15]
One of the last leases I was on had a couple of fellas from Austin on it (yes that adds value to the story [emoji12]) One of the guys shot a deer, gutted it and left it hanging in the tree. No biggie, it got pretty cold that night. The next day mid morning we had a deer to clean so he took the doe down, laid her on the ground while we cleaned and quarter our deer then hung her back up. It warmed up into the upper 50s that day. My Dad and I skimmed a few more deer so this process went on for the next 3 days with one of the days getting up to 70. On the 4th day he loaded the doe onto his receiver hitch basket and headed down the 5 miles of dusty caliche road to get to the blacktop and then headed to the processor over 2 hours away. We decided then we wouldn’t be trying any of his sausage.
What’s the worst handling of meat you’ve witnessed?
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One of the last leases I was on had a couple of fellas from Austin on it (yes that adds value to the story [emoji12]) One of the guys shot a deer, gutted it and left it hanging in the tree. No biggie, it got pretty cold that night. The next day mid morning we had a deer to clean so he took the doe down, laid her on the ground while we cleaned and quarter our deer then hung her back up. It warmed up into the upper 50s that day. My Dad and I skimmed a few more deer so this process went on for the next 3 days with one of the days getting up to 70. On the 4th day he loaded the doe onto his receiver hitch basket and headed down the 5 miles of dusty caliche road to get to the blacktop and then headed to the processor over 2 hours away. We decided then we wouldn’t be trying any of his sausage.
What’s the worst handling of meat you’ve witnessed?
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