Each year during the Florida Alligator hunting season we buy hundreds of Alligators from the hunters to process. We also process the Alligators for the hunters to get the meat and skin back.
We are within an hour of where most of the Alligators in Florida are harvested each year. We are within minutes of the Polk Parkway and I-4 near the Lakeland International Airport off of Drane Field Road.
That’s right! We have a weight scale that hangs from the ceiling in our loading bay. We can hang your trophy Alligator so that you can take a photo standing beside it. As a family that enjoys hunting as well, we understand how important it is to get a good picture of your trophy. It helps to tell the story when you can compare the size of your trophy with you standing beside it. Sometimes it is hard to describe how big a ten foot Alligator is, unless you have that Picture of you standing beside it as it towers over you.
If you are looking to have your skin cut a certain way for the taxidermist, you’ve come to the right place! There are a few different ways to cut the skin of the Alligator depending on what type of mount you are doing. Maybe you are just wanting to tan the hide to make leather, or maybe you want a full body mount for that trophy of a lifetime! We can expertly cut it for you however you need.
During normal business hours someone will be here to help you unload and bring in your Alligator. Have an idea of what services you would like done to expedite the process. For all Alligators that are brought in after hours we will have a cooler ready for you to put your Alligator in until the following day. Please put your Alligator in the cooler and leave our copy of the harvest report form with your phone number ( it’s usually pink for the processor ). This is important: Make sure that your tag is in the last 6 inches of the tail of your Alligator or we will NOT be able to except your Alligator. This is important: Make sure that the harvest report form is completed and leave your phone number on the top of the harvest report form for us to contact you. Once we have unloaded your Alligator, we will be in touch with you on the next business day to confirm what you want done with your Alligator.
IMPORTANT: Alligators must be in good condition and in good health. Alligators that have not been taken care of or that are not in good health will be subject to price changes or rejection. We ACCEPT cash and credit cards (there will be an extra fee) for any processing transactions.
Sell us your Alligator:
$8/ft. 6’11”-under
$10/ft. 7’0″-7’11”
$15/ft. 8’0″-8’11”
$20/ft. 9’0″-9’11”
$25/ft. 10’0″-10’11”
$30/ft. 11’0″-11’11”
$35/ft. 12’0″-12’11”
Process: We process your Alligator for a fee. You get your skin and white meat back. The skin will be cut to your specifications and will be fleshed and salted.
$25/ft. Regular cut, skin is fleshed and salted
$35/ft. Trophy cut, and trophy head cut; skin is fleshed and salted
All white meat returned will be an additional $3.00/lb.
Let us deliver your salted hide to the tannery (Sebring Custom Tanning) down in Sebring, Florida at the end of the season for a flat fee of $30 per skin. Let us know when you are giving us your order for processing that you want to take advantage of this new service.
Trades:
We keep meat, you keep “regular cut” hide fleshed and salted for Alligators 8’0″ and up – No charge
We keep meat, you keep “regular cut” hide fleshed and salted for Alligators 7’11” and down – You pay $15/ft.
We keep meat, you keep “trophy cut” hide fleshed and salted – You pay $20/ft.
We keep meat, you keep “trophy head cut” hide fleshed and salted – You pay $20/ft.
There are not any trades where we keep the skin, and you keep the meat. It is recommended that you sell your Alligator, and we will give you a special price for the meat and you can buy it by the pound.
*All prices and trade deals are subject to change at any time without notice. Trade deals that have already been made after such change will still be honored*
