Anyone here have a shed that serves as a fur shed but also as a butcher shop for deer, chickens, etc? Best options would probably be to keep them separate but that would require a bigger space to split or separate shed.

Any issues with cross contamination?
Pros?
Cons?

I'd have it in two different rooms

hamging meat takes on flavor easily i wouldnt recommend it unless very sanitary in fur shed lockers do not age beef with deer ect..

I call that my garage.

I have a combo fur/butchering shop. Fur is skinned inside on the skinning machine fleshing stretching in one corner. Fur is dried in the air closet. Game and livestock gutting and quartering happens on the pole outside and goes in a walk-in cooler. Wipe everything down shop with with 50/50 bleach /water before bringing meat in from the cooler. Shop has stainless steel tables with 1/2" plastic sheet on top.

Yep, same here.

Todays steak meal with twice baked potatoes and a splash of yote glands.

Yes sir I have a 26 by 36 shop do everything in there I do kind of keep things separated like monster Toms set up is explained

It depends on the amount of the fur handling that’s done in that building and lure/bait making going on. I’ve walked into some fur buyers places that were very potent just stepping through the door. I have 2 buildings that I would not butcher food in, I usually 1/4 the animal and do it in the kitchen 1/4 at a time.

Everything goes on in the barn here. Deer processing and fur processing. No contamination issues, tables and counters are always washed down and bleached. Just like in the kitchen.

[quote=Law Dog]Todays steak meal with twice baked potatoes and a splash of yote glands. :s YOU FORGOT THE BEAVER CASTORS!!!!??? How can you have quality dining without some Beaver Castors!!!??? How can you have a Quality Dining experience without your Beaver Castors on your Baked Potato?? People will think you are city.

I always wanted to start a Restaurant where the Hunters Trappers and Fisherman all met and cleaned and stretched their animals so we could Grill and eat them. I think Fleshing and Stretching would be the entertainment!!! It would be even better if we could get the women to do the Fleshing and Stretching!!!!

In a Hooters like outfit!

Yep wouldn’t want to process meat where I put up critters but each their own

A butcher shop on one of the Hutterite colonies here got shut down when the inspector walked in and saw a couple coyotes hanging inside.

This is why I don't ever eat any food that somebody else makes. Some people have no idea what cleanliness means.

I do (to a degree). If you have a steel top workbench or a wooden top bench that is freshly painted (White) periodically, you can keep those surfaces clean with some work.

Or keep a one of those fold up plastic tables just for processing game. Those are pretty easy to keep stored separate and clean. The space isn't usually the issue, its the surface you place your meat on that can cause problems.

But yeah, my game is usually finished in the kitchen once it's in smaller pieces. A two stage process here.

There is absolutely no way I’d butcher a deer in my fur shop! ZERO chance!!

I do it , everything benches are stainless steel , i don't make any lure , and I have hot water to clean up everything never had a complain on any meat that I butcher

I don't even use the same knives to skin and butcher deer with that I use to skin critters. I sure ain't throwing it up on the same tables that I lay critters on....no matter what it's cleaned with...