Casey Orrell

Learning how to break down the whole animal taught me more about my knife skills, safety, and where each cut comes from. It also taught me why certain cuts are more tender, and why. I was working for a deer processing plant, and in my experience, if you can get the muscles off of a small carcass, with little to no meat left on the carcass, a much larger animal is easier. The bone structure and muscular structure are the same, but they are much easier to identify and extract. I definitely learned to respect all the equipment and the dangers behind them. One small mistake, and it could be catastrophic to your health. This trade has always kept my attention, because of all the little details involved. I've learned a lot from managing a department. Seeing the results of a plan, a year later and watching it take shape throughout always peeked my attention. Every location is different. Low sales volume, means each item you lose counts as double. Finding the happy medium is sometimes hard but pays off in the end.