How much sausage to return for deer meat given to process in trade.

[rexlan]

I have folks wanting me to process some venison into Salami, Summer Sausage and hunter snack sticks. I have the equipment, smokes, stuffer etc and have been doing it a long time making quality product.

I generally add 40% quality pork trim or boston butt and uses fibrous and collagen casings. The casings are running about 30-50 cents a lb. now and the butts or trim about $2-2.50/lb. Seasonings run about 10 cents. and it takes about $5 of pellets and power to smoke a 10# batch. Work wise ... it is significant unless I make 25# batches which is too much or a single item.

My question is this. What is a fair return to someone who furnished just the deer meat? I provide all the labor, smoking, finishing, cutting the deer meat up, the pork and the seasonings.

Say someone provided 50# of deer meat and wanted a "share back" as summer sausage .... what is a reasonable amount to offer them back? My thinking is about 20% (10#) of the original deer meat weight is pretty generous but I may be off base on it.

Thanks for some help on it.