Circle C Farm Abattoir & Butcher Shop is NOW Once Again accepting outside animals for Harvesting & Butchering Services / Meat Processing Services

If you’d like to get on our schedule, please email harvesting@circlecfarmfl.com

OR call the Farm 239-776-9054 (M-F 9 AM to 3 PM) to schedule your harvesting time. 

Turn time is typically 1-2 weeks from time of drop off.  So, have that freezer ready!

Species for Harvesting include: Cattle, Pigs, Goat, Lambs

NO Poultry or Wild Game will be harvested for bio-security purposes at all.

CUT SHEET will be emailed upon scheduling appointment, so that you can look everything over before coming on site for drop off.  We will go through the cut sheet with you.

We have kept it simple to minimize any confusion or errors on your end or ours.

All butchering / packaging will be at the same quality and HIGH standards that we engage in when handling our own meat and packaging for our clientele – your meat will be treated the same as we treat our own AND so will your animal!

YOU will get back YOUR ENTIRE ANIMAL!

Our goal is to harvest and butcher so that you get the greatest yield out of your animal carcass.

All bones, fat, meat, etc will be packaged and provided for you, based on your cut sheet.  It’s YOUR animal and we take pride in our old-fashioned hand butchering by our experienced butchers and the way that they breakdown an animal to maximize your yield by using techniques that will do just that.

We DON’T KEEP any of your meat, it’s YOURS and we have our own! (We don’t need nor want your meat!)  Don't take that personally, but yours is yours, ours is ours! :)

That being said… the FLAVOR of your meat is based 100% on what YOU fed it, not how we butcher it.  We harvest in a humane way that is intended to have the absolute least amount of stress, so that we can facilitate the calmest energy prior to harvesting, this will help with a reduction in adrenaline at the time of harvest.

We are not responsible for the flavor of your meat.  We make sure that your animal is as calm and stress free as possible at the time of harvest because we know that you have months and or years invested in your animal.  We so appreciate and respect all of what it takes to get your animal ready for butchering.  We honor and treat all livestock with respect and appreciation on this farm.  Yours and ours!

ALL animals will have access to grassy pastures, clean water and a stress-free environment from the time that you drop them off until the time of harvesting, typically 24-48 hours from the time of drop off.  We have feed available for them, as needed depending on whether or not they are here for a day or two before we harvest, they are fed, so not to worry about that part.  And, there is NO extra fee for that!

We do NOT knowingly harvest ANY animal that is pregnant or showing clear signs of being pregnant.  No exceptions on this!

WHEN COMPARING PRICING & FACILITIES FOR HARVESTING / SLAUGHTER / CUT & WRAP...

• KEEP IN MIND THAT WE GET YOUR MEAT BACK TO YOU IN ABOUT 10-14 DAYS, NOT MONTHS LATER
• IF YOU ARE ONLY COMPARING FACILITIES ON PRICE… YOU WILL BE BUYING MEATS FROM THE GROCERY STORE UNTIL YOU GET YOURS BACK.
• IF YOU WAIT FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS, WHAT YOU ARE 'SAVING' IN COST OF PROCESSING WILL COST YOU IN GROCERIES. 
• WHILE YOUR ANIMAL THAT YOU HAVE WORKED SO HARD FOR TO GET THAT ANIMAL TO 'WEIGHT' IS STANDING AROUND A PASTURE / STALL JUST WAITING TO BE HARVESTED, IT IS GOING TO LOOSE WEIGHT. 
• IF IT IS BEING FED BY SOMEONE ELSE, WHY SHOULD YOU EAT WHATEVER RANDOM FEED / FILLER SOMEONE ELSE IS FEEDING THEM

FOOD QUALITY EFFECTS MEAT FLAVOR

WHEN COMPARING BUTCHER SHOP SERVICES, THERE IS MORE TO IT THAN THE 'COST' ON THE CUT SHEET

• LOOK OVER EVERYTHING AND RUN YOUR NUMBERS
• LOOK AT FINAL PRODUCT THAT YOU ARE RECEIVING, NOT JUST COST - YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!  AND, DEPENDING ON PACKAING QUAILITY, LONGIVITY IN FREEZER IS BASED ON PACKAGING QUALITY
• LOOK AT THE HIDDEN COSTS – DAILY FEED COST, TRANSPORT COSTS, HIDDEN FEES , SPECIALTY CUT COSTS, HANDLING COSTS, ETC
• ARE THE COSTS THERE, BUT HIDDEN TO LOOK LIKE IT IS LESS THAN THE SURPRISE THAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET IN 3-5 MONTHS WHEN YOU PICK UP YOUR MEAT

CIRCLE C FARM HARVEST & BUTCHERING SERVICES OFFERED and COSTS:

OUR COST STRUCTURE IS INTENEDED TO BE SIMPLE AND STRAIGHT FORWARD WITHOUT ANYTHING HIDDEN ALONG WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND PERSONAL TOUCH THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS, INCLUDING PICTURES OF YOUR CARCASS SENT TO YOU ON THE DAY OF HARVESTING

Flat amount of $3 / pound Clean Carcass Weight (Hot hanging weight will be documented so that you know your total yield) + tongue + organ (heart, kidney, liver) = Total amount for the harvesting process.

Ex: 400 pound live animal weight (Hot Weight – so you know what your yield is)

200 pound clean carcass weight + 10 pounds of tongue and organs weight = 210 pounds total for butchering and packaging.

= 210 pounds total x $3 / pound = $630 Total (with no additional patties or sausages)

 Your total all in for the harvest, butchering, packaging, labeling ready for pick up.

• We do NOT charge or have a separate harvest (kill) fee – we are all inclusive to make it super easy for you and us.

• Burger patties: $.99 / pound additional
• Sausages: $2.99 / pound additional – we hand mix our spices fresh in small batches, use our own family recipes (NEVER pre-packaged or commercial spices), case all sausages by hand and use a natural hog casing.

• ALL packages are vacuum sealed and labeled. So, you will know what the cut is and how much that package weighs.
• ALL livestock are harvested under USDA Inspection.
• NO Yard, feed or holding fees or cost to you at all.
• No chemicals, preservatives, MSG, Nitrites, Nitrates, Sulfites or Sulfates are used on or in your meats, patties or sausages, EVER!
• Meat that is for your private freezer will be marked Not For Sale.

We can ALL eat in our food shed, so that we can continue to feed our families and friends and neighbors healthy meats that we know are better for us all in general.  It is our goal here at Circle C Farm to support other farmers in our state, so that we can all benefit from what we do and our commitment to the livestock we raise to eat!