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Deer Processors across Alabama
All 65 processors the sources confirm, from the Tennessee Valley to Mobile Bay, each with a phone number, a map link and a website when the listing had one.
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Alabama processors on the map
The map puts 56 processors at a geocoded street address or a point from the source list. 9 more listings sit at the middle of their town and the pin label says so.
WFF District I, 19 processors in 9 counties
Walker County (1)
WFF District II, 6 processors in 4 counties
WFF District III, 18 processors in 11 counties
WFF District IV, 14 processors in 6 counties
WFF District V, 8 processors in 5 counties
Processors from the ADCNR Hunters Helping the Hungry processor list, the ADCNR CWD sampling page, the ADCNR 2026-2027 CWD drop-off map and Yellow Pages meat-processing listings; lockers whose listing never names deer or game carry a call-to-confirm tag. Checked November 1, 2026.
Alabama processing: report, donate, test
Game Check comes first
Every deer and turkey hunter, licensed or exempt, must carry a harvest record (paper or the Outdoor AL app), record each deer/turkey before moving or field dressing it, and report it through Game Check within 48 hours or before transferring possession; confirmation number goes on the paper record.
Handing a deer to someone else
Anyone receiving a deer/turkey (whole or part) inside Alabama needs written documentation: harvester's name, CID, Game Check confirmation number and harvest date (or the DCNR Transfer of Possession Certificate). Not required when transferred outside Alabama, but Game Check still is. Out-of-state deer/turkey are not reported in Alabama Game Check.
Hunters Helping the Hungry
Donate field-dressed deer at participating processors at no charge; processors are paid $2/lb by the Alabama Conservation and Natural Resources Foundation; about 824,668 lb of venison donated since 1999. 7 processors on this page are on the ADCNR list.
CWD sampling at the shop
13 processors here host ADCNR sampling or a head drop-off. In the High Risk Zone the mobile sites are North Alabama Deer Shack, Florence Frozen Meats, Fancher's Taxidermy & Deer Processing, Jaybird's Taxidermy and Processing; in the Buffer Zone, Liberty Hill Deer Processing.
Carcasses from the CWD zone
HRZ parts stay in the HRZ; BZ parts stay in the CMZ (deboned meat, clean skull plates/antlers, capes, canines, taxidermy and hides exempt).
Leftover bones and hide
Inside the CMZ, bury remains 2 feet deep or leave at the kill site; outside, household waste/landfill, burial or kill site. Processors and taxidermists are not disposal sites.
Deer killed in another state
No whole cervid carcasses or parts from any other state, territory, province or country; only deboned meat, cleaned skull plates with bare antlers, bare antlers/sheds, capes without brain/spinal tissue, upper canines and finished taxidermy/hides (220-2-.25). Live cervid import banned.
Sources: Regulation Book, PDF p. 150; ADCNR transfer of possession page; ADCNR Hunters Helping the Hungry page; ADCNR CWD sampling page, matched to the printed text November 1, 2026.
Answers on Alabama processors
Which processors take donated deer for food banks?
7 processors here are on the ADCNR Hunters Helping the Hungry list and are tagged on their cards. Donate field-dressed deer at participating processors at no charge; processors are paid $2/lb by the Alabama Conservation and Natural Resources Foundation; about 824,668 lb of venison donated since 1999.
Where are the gaps in the processors list?
32 counties came up empty, which makes the map the quicker route there.
Why do some cards say to call about venison?
14 meat-processing listings never mention deer or game, so they carry a call-to-confirm tag; custom processors and lockers are included because many cut deer in season.
Where can I get a deer sampled for CWD at a processor?
4 processors are ADCNR mandatory-weekend sampling sites in the High Risk or Buffer Zone, and 9 more host a head drop-off freezer on the ADCNR map.
Where are most Alabama processors?
Franklin County tops the count at 5; next come Baldwin County (3 listings) and Cullman County (3 listings).
How many processors made the Alabama list?
The list holds 65 processors in 35 counties, going by the sources as read on November 1, 2026.
Where does this list of processors come from?
Processors from the ADCNR Hunters Helping the Hungry processor list, the ADCNR CWD sampling page, the ADCNR 2026-2027 CWD drop-off map and Yellow Pages meat-processing listings; lockers whose listing never names deer or game carry a call-to-confirm tag. Checked November 1, 2026.
Where in Alabama are processors thickest?
19 in WFF District I, 18 in WFF District III, 14 in WFF District IV, 8 in WFF District V and 6 in WFF District II.
Do all processors have a map pin?
56 sit at their own point, 9 at their town's Census point.
Other lists besides processors
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