Kuby's in Dallas

Just a heads up that they are not taking anymore deer for processing starting today for the next 10 days. They are at capacity. Just wanted to pass that along for the Dallas area folks that use them as they are pretty popular for processing.

Good info. Wife wanted me to get some jerky from there. Guess I'll wait a couple weeks to try to kill a doe.

Thanks for the heads up!!

JR

WOW!

I dropped some meat off with them a couple of weeks ago. It is my first time using them, but I have heard nothing but good things about them. Got 40 pounds of jalapeño cheese sausage being made.

Never understood turning down any business. I would never go back if they turned me away

Sounds like they are at capacity.

I dropped off one of the last deer this morning. Their freezers are completely full. Said my meat won’t be ready until mid January.

Well, if they don’t have the freezer space I guess you’d be okay with them leaving your meat outside right? I mean, at least they didn’t turn you away.

Got the text this morning that they were full. I haven’t hinted this year yet and finally get 24 hours to slip away and planned on piling up the does. Guess it will be a good weekend to just sit and watch

I can't imagine the # of deer is so much greater then in the past. Wonder if they are having personel issues and just don't have the manpower they had in the past due to Covid?

There are other places to take them



I went to Rendon Meats on Sunday and their freezer and the box trailer they have were both full. I have never seen them that full, so it seems that there was an exceptional number of animals killed last weekend. I can see them reaching capacity but not taking until mid January. I would guess that is a personnel problem for sure.

Workplace cleanliness requirements, social distancing, fewer employees, and maybe more people out hunting.

glad i dropped off 2 deer a week ago

Take carcasses home, debone them and freeze the meat. Take to Kubys when they can make it happen.

There are other places to take them

Nobody asked you . Yes there are other places, but over the years I have been disappointed in most other places, Kuby’s has yet to disappoint me.

Don't believe they take de-boned meat.

Don’t know about deboned. You can however quarter it, freeze it, and take it when they have availability

I dropped off 4 Addax, 2 oryx, and three axis last month all deboned and they didn’t seem to mind.

Good to know

I've dropped off deboned elk and whitetail multiple times and they've always taken the meat with no questions at all.

I’ve used them. Pretty sure your meat gets mixed all up with others and their prices are pretty steep.

Lets not punish processors for honesty. Kuby's is amazing and I took all my deer there while living in Dallas. Saw a stat that new youth hunting licenses up 97% in MN this year and guessing TX seeing increased numbers as well. Capitalism is a good thing, these guys will catch up to the increased numbers, but it isn't going to happen overnight. In the interim, check the processors near your hunting grounds, never heard of them getting full.

Rather be turned away due to capacity than have my deer in a pile on the floor.

I’ve seen how well some hunters field dress and care for their meat post-kill. I’ll process everything i shoot at home.

I'm very OCD w/my game I kill. I take mine to a small Czech 1 man processor. His place is absolutely spotless, he's very nice, very knowledgeable (I believe he's 6-7th gen. butcher from Czech.), very reasonably priced & you get your meat back. He's pretty dang old & IDK what I'll do when he quits. He has adult children & g-children but I guess they're not interested in the trade as I've never seen anyone there other than himself. He did 4 deer for me in < 1.5 weeks & it was under $250 for all kinds of specialty makes.

Heard they’ve done 16K deer this year. Year round deal with high fences and exotics but that’s a lot of animals

If he did 4 deer for you for under $250 especially with specialty meats, he will be going out of business soon.

It can get expensive to produce and is very time consuming, very.

For many years I have dreamed about opening up my own little business doing just that, and then some. Even mobile cleaning & processing.

I used to have a second job as an owner/operator of a tire & wheel business and I learned this......

Most people want CHEAP and NOW. Most folks are not willing to pay for a quality product.

Between the casings, the spices, pork and the handle of Crown Royal, pretty sure it costs me $250 to process four deer with my buds.

Used kuby’s before and had no problems; but last year I thought their casing was very tough. Tried several batches and all were hard to chew. Maybe just a bad batch.

Lol. He’s been in the same spot since the 70’s. He’s not going anywhere until he decides he’s done. His facility is on his property (appears to be a couple hundred acres) and it appears he does this when he’s not farming. Maybe he’s so cheap because he has nothing but time?

I will add, these were 4 hill country doe and the biggest couldn’t have been more than 110lbs on the hoof.

Gotcha.

Stopped by several processors last week and all were full. Kuby's was not yet and that was our last option. Pretty sure folks are killing anything legal from what it looked like to get meat.

They said they are super backed up on cows now they don't have time for deer.

THIS^^^^^^^^Or just quarter them and freeze

Talked to two other processors and they said they've taken in more this year than ever before.

I wish I had seen this thread before I left the lease for Kuby's this morning! As I pulled in about 2:30 I thought to myself, "Wow! I hit it just right, there's no queue to unload". THEN, I saw the note posted on the loading dock about No drop-offs until Dec 12th! SWMBO loves to eat the stuff, but playing butcher is definitely not on her bucket list!