How to butcher a small deer - quickly, cleanly and easily

How do you get the most from a small deer in the shortest possible time? Paul Childerley shows how to butcher a Chinese water deer, one of the world's smaller deer. The result: tasty loin, backstrap and haunch.
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There are more than two million red, roe, fallow, sika, muntjac and Chinese water deer in Britain’s countryside and semi-urban areas, the highest level for 1,000 years. Numbers have doubled since 1999, according to the Deer Initiative, the UK government’s deer agency.
Deer are an attractive and an important part of our wildlife. However, they have no natural predator in the UK so numbers must be sensibly and strategically managed to keep them in balance with their habitat and to prevent damage to crops, trees, woodland flora, gardens and other wildlife.
Deer cause £4.5 million-worth (Forestry Commission Scotland) of damage to plantations and other commercial woodlands in Scotland. Crop damage is estimated at £4.3m a year according to DEFRA, with the greatest damage on cereal crops in east and south-west England.
More than 8,000 hectares (Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology) of woodland with SSI status is currently in ‘unfavourable’ or ‘recovering’ condition due to deer impacts such as browsing and fraying. Deer can also influence the variety of wildlife in woodlands and other habitats by altering structural and plant species diversity. According to the University of East Anglia’s Dr Paul Dolman, that has resulted in a 50% decline in woodland bird numbers where deer are present, impacting particularly on nightingales, blackcaps, chiffchaffs and warblers.
Deer are susceptible to Bovine TB and may be responsible for the transmission of TB to cattle. They are also the likely driver behind the UK’s increasing tick population (Scharlemann et al 2008).
Happily, venison is a delicious meat. It is wild, natural and free range, and - almost fat-free - it is one of the healthiest meats available today. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Venison is high in protein, low in saturated fatty acids and contains higher levels of iron than any other red meat.
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[@grb101uk]

Cracking video. Thanks! Going to try getting the silver skin off a rabbit loin next ;)

[@tobycussons188]

Good video 👍

[@chopperhehehe]

Great video have you tried keeping knife still and moving skin side to side less meat on the silver skin
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[@LondonPestControl]

Brilliant vid gents

[@allandobbs7059]

Very helpful Paul
Is so down to earth and people friendly!👍

[@user-vn4pq1ui4e]

Good info

[@obiorah1]

That’s the back straps Chinese water deer, that connects along the spline,

[@user-wb6uy7dn4w]

basically, how do you do it

[@banffscotland1]

Use a chopping board ffs , and please try a proper filleting knife for the silver.

[@stevenwolf8483]

I guess as Childerly said, an assassin must be good at butchery so that they know their target's anatomy and its weak parts.

[@henryjw15]

Gosh damn that is a small deer.

Ok

[@ronprince1478]

Ok but not a butcher.

[@rupertday698]

L

[@sparkplugsteve402]

Cant believe you put the best steak to stew , chump steak....