The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67624   Message #1130876
Posted By: wysiwyg
07-Mar-04 - 10:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Deer.....
Subject: RE: BS: Deer.....
Do you have farmers' hunt permits there, where you can show depradation and get an unlimited license to harvest them during hunting season? If so you might find a bounty hunter that would like to visit your place. Cooperating neighbors can band together to limit the general population circulating in your area; that's how they do it where we are.

You could feed a lot of people if you made a Christmas arrangement with your area food pantry. Usually they cannot offer venison themselves, but they can put up posters notifying people of its availability. Someone with a freezer filled by cooperating local deer processors hands out the goodies, or a local paper might run free ads over Christmas time. (Our season is from T'giving onwards.) Freezer costs can be defrayed if someone is interested in harvesting and marketing the pelts. A church can act as middleman to verify recipients' intake info, give them a chit for their family size, and direct them to the freezer of the year at a time convenient to the freezer owner. People likely to participate would be sheep farmers, who often market their spring crop and know who the community-minded local processors are. You don't need fancy butchering-- just clean facilities where people know what they are doing and can Sawzall frozen quarters into large roasts.

~Susan