I have been using Wentzel's in Hamilton for all my deer processing for over 15 years. Unfortunately they are no longer processing deer. Any recommendations for someone relatively close to CS that is good? I know there were some recommendations on the outdoor board, but everything was at least 2 hours away.

Typically we get summer sausage, brats, jerky, snack sticks, pastrami, etc.

Appreciate any recommendations.

This CT??

How is Slovaceks?

I've always heard that most of those places don't actually give you YOUR meat. It gets mixed up with a bunch of other folks' and they dole you out approximately what your bag would've yielded.

Some do. Some are very clear they do not.

I've used slovaceks a handful of times, last year I used Broken Tine. His ground was solid his sausage wasn't as good but he was quite a bit cheaper. I'll be going there again this year

I have used slovaceks, broken tine, Ed's butcher block and Arnold's.
Arnold's in Hempstead is our favorite. Slovaceks mixes deer, so I hear. I wasn't pleased with the quality either.
Broken tine vacuum seals everything and a quick turnaround. My family wasn't impressed.
Ed's was sold and the new meat market continued the recipe until they burned down.
Arnold's is relatively close and doesn't mix. The sausage is vacuum sealed and the burger is in the one pound bags. They have a variety of different options.

ElephantRider said:

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Theiss, just north of Normangee on 39. I've never personally used them, but they make fantastic sausage and I've heard good things from people that have taken deer there. They do not mix orders

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was just about to post Theiss. Been using them for almost 20 years now and have always been happy with the product.

cstat07 said:

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How is Slovaceks?

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Bad

I've used. Bellville - wasn't all that impressed overall

Last year used Readfields and loved its will be using again this year

Most of what we have had from Bellville is exotics, but it has always been fantastic (ground, steaks, sausage- summer, dried, fresh).

We process everything ourselves- so everything we have had from Bellville was given to us

Another vote for Readfield's. They make me a batch of duck and pork jalapeño and cheese sausage every year that is lights out.

Never used them but there is Jarret's in Madisonville, and K&C in Navasota.

histag10 said:

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Bellville Meat Market is also good

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Grew up in Bellville, and we always used them. But we did a 50/50 venison/pork mix for sausage. It's delicious.

We used to use Slovacek's but, like someone else mentioned, the last deer we had processed there was awful. This last year we used Readfield's. They used only our deer. They didn't mix it with others. It was probably the best deer sausage that we have had in a long time.