Along with deer farming comes a myriad of marketing opportunities to explore. Selling venison and bringing in hunters is just the beginning of the products that can be traded. By exploring various locations, we can find many additional avenues where we can generate additional income.

The most visible products to market in deer farming are, of course, venison and game.

Deer: When marketing venison, it is important to use the benefits of venison in the marketing strategy. Venison is a much healthier alternative to red meat. It is natural and organic. It also has much less fat. The meat is easy to prepare, and can be frozen, vacuum packed, without losing quality or texture for up to a year. Venison can also be further processed and sold as jerky or marinated cuts of meat.

Hunt: Individuals and groups can come to your deer farm to hunt. This provides ample income opportunities: lodging can be provided, a guide can be hired for the expedition, carcasses can be processed. All of this along with the standard hunting fee per deer to be hunted.

Valuable by-products of deer farming include the following:

Leather: Deerskins are a valuable asset that can be traded raw, tanned, or whole, in the form of shoes, purses, wallets, purses, belts, and more. Deerskin tans easily and takes color easily.

Antlers: Deer antlers have been used in various ways throughout the centuries. First of all, they were used to make weapons and crude tools. Until just a century ago, antlers were used to make cutlery, gun and knife handles, buttons and other utensils. Curio shops still sell a steady supply of handmade items (like sugar teaspoons) made from deer antlers.

Antlers have long been (and still are) used to make beautiful furniture, especially for use in bars, trophy rooms, and as focal points for special rooms.

Antlers have long been used for medicinal purposes, usually as velvet (all antlers while still soft and in the growth phase). Asians use the antler as an aphrodisiac and in countless traditional remedies.

The finely ground antlers were used as a traditional leavening agent for baking hot crackers in European countries.

milk cheese: In many countries, reindeer dairy products are the only dairy products known to people. The herders follow the migratory herds and milk the semi-domesticated deer. They churn milk to form milk, cheeses and more. Reindeer milk is a valuable source of dairy products for people who cannot tolerate cow’s milk.

Services: The by-products of deer farming are not just those tangible items that can be sold. This may also include services you may provide to the public or to other deer farmers. This includes services such as allowing visitors to tour your farm. School groups love to have informative field trips where children can learn more about the wildlife in their area. Guided tours or guided hunts can also be arranged.

Fawns may be hand raised or hand fed for other farmers. Additional enclosures for young deer can be rented, or deer housing can be offered from neighboring farmers in certain seasons.

Another valuable by-product is the semen of their deer. Artificial insemination, or just semen, can be offered to other deer farms.

If you have a truck that you transport your deer with, you can arrange transportation for other deer farms.

If you have the facilities to slaughter and/or process deer carcasses, these services can also be offered to neighboring deer farmers.

As you can see, the opportunities in your deer breeding The businesses are endless, and by researching other avenues and pursuing them, you can increase your income considerably.