Thread: Shooting to waste

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Many deer are taken by commercial hunters for pet food. The hunters are licenced through MPI and GPS each kill to properties with landowner pesticide declarations and sign off.
Local pet food operation here processes between 60 and 80 deer per week. Skin, heads trotters on plucks in $2.00 kg

They’d be needing to recover 800-1000 kg/hour to make that work?

Originally Posted by Maxx

They’d be needing to recover 800-1000 kg/hour to make that work?

Yeah to be running a chopper. The guys referred to above are probably just ground based pet food hunters so a handful of deer per day is viable. The price has dropped significantly compared to even two years ago.