Category: Deer Processing

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Wild Game Processing Announcement

After much consideration we have decided to no longer process wild game. Due to Mr Burks’ deteriorating health and difficulty in finding and keeping quality employees as well as complications do to the pandemic, it has become necessary for us to focus on our domestic processing only.

It has been an honor and a pleasure to serve all of our loyal customers for the past 20+ years. We will be forever grateful to all of you for trusting us with your wild game processing for over two decades. Please call us if we can help you fill your freezers with pork and beef. Thank you all.

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Alert: Deer Processing January – February schedule

We expect to be done processing deer by Saturday, January 9th, and customers will have until Friday the 15th to pickup. If you can’t pick up by January 15th, the meat will be donated to Hunters for the Hungry. After that, we’ll be closed until Friday, Feb 4 and will be processing on February 7th.
Please call to schedule your drop-off.

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Thanks for another record-breaking deer processing season!

The 2019-2020 hunting season crushed last year’s record by 312 deer, with 1670 Deer(and 9 Bear) processed. Thanks to all the hunters who kept us busy during the season, and to our great team here at Burks Farm who worked hard and long to keep up with demand. You guys and gals are the best!

We couldn’t do it without all of you, and look forward to next season!

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Thanks for another record-breaking deer processing season!

The 2018-2019 hunting season crushed last year’s record by 311 deer, with 1358 deer processed (and 5 bear). We sincerely thank all the hunters who kept us busy processing deer this past hunting season, and also seriously appreciate the extra-hard work of each and every member of the Burks Farm processing team to keep up with demand. You guys and gals are the best!

Also, very special thanks to our great partner Kings Specialties, and the fine folks at Virginia Hound Heritage for providing over 200 deer to Hunters for the Hungry.

We couldn’t do it without all of you, and look forward to next season!

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Thanks to customers and staff for a record-breaking deer season!

This hunting season of 2017-2018 was the first time Burks Farm processed over 1000 dear (1047 Deer & 13 Bear so far)! Burks Farm sincerely thanks all the hunters who kept us busy processing deer this past hunting season, and also greatly appreciates the hard work of each member of our staff.

We couldn’t do it without you, and look forward to next season!

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The Importance of Field Dressing Your Animals

All animals should be gutted and cooled as soon as possible. This is especially true of bear because their fur and fat are designed to hold heat in. A bear should be gutted as soon as possible after it is killed, then packed with ice inside and out until it can be skinned. A bear will go bad even at temperatures below 40 degrees if not packed with ice because the hide will not release heat.

Unfortunately, we’ve had a couple of total losses with some bears as of late because they weren’t properly dressed, so much so that not only was the meat bad, the bear couldn’t even be mounted or skinned for a bear skin rug.

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Free Deer Processing for Military – Veterans Day 2014

Burks Farm is offering all veteran, active duty, reserve duty, and National Guard personnel Free Deer Processing on 1 deer for Veterans Day 2014. We deeply appreciate your service!

Terms:

  1. Must bring deer in on Veterans Day, Tuesday, November 11
  2. Must present military ID
  3. Limit 1 deer per person

      4. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy