BUFFALO MEAT PROCESSING:
So that you get exactly what you want, contacting the processor and reserving the day your animal arrives is your responsibility. The processor we use most is:
Grizzly Processing
1105 Richards St.
Douglas, WY 82633-2932
Phone: (307) 358-4727
Grizzly's has the best rates in the entire region. Heifers and young bulls make the most tender meat. For more mature bulls, take the best steaks and roasts, and the rest makes great burger. Another option if you're heading south is: Crow Creek Meat, Cheyenne, WY, (307) 635-1150.
PROCESSING CHARGES
Completely boned out, will cost approximately $1.00 per pound of meat received, plus a $30 skinning fee. If you don't want the meat completely boned, subtract roughly 20% from the price. How much meat you get and its cost will depend a great deal on how you choose to have it cut.
Rough estimates of the amount of meat you might receive from your animal (yours may be larger or smaller, and depending on your shot, there may be more or less wasted meat):
1 1/2 year old heifers: 195 pounds
1 1/2 year old bulls: 230 pounds
2 1/2 year old bulls: 300 pounds
5 1/2 year old bulls: 420 pounds
OTHER FEES:
Hauling your bison to the processor for you - $50 (Or you may haul it yourself.)
Grizzly Processing fees:
Capeing - $45 to $65 (depending on size)
Skinning and quartering plus cooling overnight - $42
Cooling overnight only - $12
SHIPPING:
Our processor packages your meat in 70-pound containers (that's 60 lbs. meat with 10 lbs. dry ice). So, for example, a buffalo heifer with 180 lbs. processed meat would equal 3 total shipping containers weighing 70 lbs. each. UPS second-day air is necessary to ensure that your meat arrives well frozen.
BUFFALO TAXIDERMY:
For head mounts and tanning in our area: Kim Lutz at Kim's Art Wild, Box 1678, 30 N. Coyote, Glenrock, WY 82637, 307-436-5793, dk3lutz@juno.com. Or Shawna Towner at SMT Taxidermy, Douglas, WY, 307-358-4727, shawna@netcommander.com. The place for robes is Moyle Tanning, 208-678-3421, info@moytown.com, in Heyburn ID. We're told they are the best. Bulls make the best robes, and though mature bulls are obviously the best mounts, younger bulls make nice head mounts as well. 
