Do you tip your game processor

Here in California, they charge 135.00 per animal, be it a 90lb blacktail or 200lb mule deer, or $1.20cents a lb to grind and wrap, on boned and trimmed venison, those prices motivated me to use my Cabela's points to buy a grinder,
In IL it's $200 processing fee and $2 per lbs of burger. Me and my pals have LEM equipment enroute. 4 deer will break even on the savings by self processing.
 
I take one deer in because that's one I have turned into all the meat sticks jerky summer sausage smoked backstrap because I don't have time for the equipment to the smoking the rest of the deer eye processed myself so no I do not tip these processor
 
The last deer I took to the locker came back with lead slug fragments and I was shooting Barnes copper. Then there was the mistake of them reading the sheet of 70lbs of meat as 20lbs and I was treated like the A-hole for pointing it out. Never again.
 
I've ran large wild game processors and you tip if you want something off the norm. A good example is if you ask the unloading guy to run it across the scale for a weight or to cut the horns or ivories out and the big one if you bring in a pile of leaves and fur in game bags. For normal service pay the normal price, in the shop I ran the best tip anyone got was a Thank You and treating staff kindly, that goes farther than anything!!
 
 

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