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Bodger

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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 06 4:19 pm Post subject:
I never pay for mine, but I think that might be a tad expensive. What do the others think ?

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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 06 5:08 pm Post subject:
Last year a few people posted up prices and about �10 a kilo for prepared venison seemed about the average in the South East.

gil
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 06 5:19 pm Post subject:
If buying venison, I usually get shoulder for [pot]roasts - just as lean etc as leg. Shoulder will also do nicely for casseroles. Not had any for a while, seems to have become quite dear (groan) these days.

KILLITnGRILLIT

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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 06 7:42 pm Post subject:
No way...........game dealers are paying for carcases @ �2/ kilo. Ask a local shoot if you can buy a whole beast and at 35-40 lb dressed out not skinned with the offal = a result.

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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 06 8:17 pm Post subject:

KILLITnGRILLIT wrote:

No way...........game dealers are paying for carcases @ �2/ kilo.

Ask a local shoot if you can buy a whole beast and at 35-40 lb dressed out not skinned with the offal = a result.

Hasn't it got to be sold via a game dealer though? I tried to buy a whole carcase from our local dealer but they didn't seem interested in selling to the public.

KILLITnGRILLIT

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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 06 8:22 pm Post subject:
IMO - no ......... https://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/draftwildgameguide.pdf

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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 06 8:25 pm Post subject:
Many thanks for the link, looks like I could get some direct from a stalker.

ros

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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 06 9:21 am Post subject:
agree it's not a bad price if you have no alternative, �10/kg for prepared for stewing and up to �15/kg for steaks from our local farm shop/game dealer.

woodsprite

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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 06 9:28 am Post subject:
Thank the lords I dont have to buy then!

ros

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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 06 9:53 am Post subject:

woodsprite wrote:

Thank the lords I dont have to buy then!

I cut out that particular middle-man as well!

wonder how much they charge in Waitrose?

cuff

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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 06 7:03 pm Post subject:
odd time ive bought full carcass prepared normally �40

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 06 9:12 pm Post subject:
We buy whole carcasses too, nowhere near the price you've been quoted, I'd ask around perhaps, for us venison is a cheap meat (but we do buy it skin on, just headless and gutted and we do the rest)

LynneA

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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 06 11:18 am Post subject:

Haven't the space for a half - let alone whole casrcass, so that's not an option. This deer comes from a forest ranger just outside the M25 via someone in my college class.

Round here there's no way of getting anything other than venison burgers or sossies - I'd have to go into the posh parts of London and pay their prices to get any other cuts, so I think it's fair do. I know who and where the money is going so I have no worries.

I'm getting a rolled belly to pot roast in this instance. I'd love to have a go at saddle, but our oven's too small. There's likely to be one a month through the season, so I may have a chance to experiment futher.

KILLITnGRILLIT

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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 06 10:56 am Post subject:

LynneA wrote:

I'd love to have a go at saddle, but our oven's too small.

What size oven do you have ? as a Roe saddle isn`t as big as you`d imagine.

I don`t have one at the moment but I`d estimate smaller than 12" x 8" for a big buck

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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 06 5:39 pm Post subject:

ros wrote:

agree it's not a bad price if you have no alternative,
�10/kg for prepared for stewing and up to �15/kg for steaks from our local farm shop/game dealer.

I just remembered, I looked at the price in a local supermarket and it was well over �20 a kilo for some vacuum packed steaks which I think are from farmed deer.

Needless to say I didn't buy any.

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