Eid-ul-Adha is the biggest employment season for butchers in which they earn thousands of rupees in hours, while professional butchers as well as ordinary people with little experience also manage to earn a living. Slaughter rates are higher for slaughtering animals immediately after Eid prayers, while in later times and then on the second and third day the compensation decreases. Butchers also earn extra by selling fat.
Different rates of butchers are running depending on the different areas of the city, in which the rates are higher for covered areas, fancy and heavy animals. The compensation for slaughtering a goat immediately after Eid prayers is Rs. 2,500 to Rs. 5,000 and in later times Rs. 1,500 to Rs. 5,000 is charged. It costs Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000 to slaughter a large animal after Eid prayers, but in later times it is Rs 5,000 to Rs 8,000. Similarly, the compensation for slaughtering a fancy animal is Rs 15,000 to Rs 30,000 on the first day and Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 later. Some butchers book the animals alone and they slaughter the goats alone but help the larger animals, while most butchers take more animal contracts in one place with a group of relatively inexperienced butchers.
Do butchers share the amount of compensation equally? Some butchers take contracts together and distribute the compensation equally, but this rarely happens. Majeed, a butcher, says that most experienced butchers who The teacher is said to take contracts from religious schools, charities, associations, and family-level sacrificers who sacrifice large numbers of animals. After taking the contract and fixing the price, they hire less experienced butchers with them. According to the experience of butchers, a daily wage of Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 10,000 is paid, ie, depending on the experience of a butcher, he earns Rs. 6,000 to Rs. 30,000 in 3 days. If there is a butcher on a large animal, it takes about two and a half hours, but if there is a group, the work is completed in an hour and a half. It takes extra time to minimize the herbs, clear the fat and make each part of the meat separately. After paying the teacher, a conservative estimate saves up to Rs 30,000 a day and up to Rs 90,000 in three days.
Butchers also earn by selling fat. According to a butcher named Shahbaz, fat is also produced during meal preparation and cleaning, a large part of which is set aside for disposal. The butcher collects the fat by calling it redundant and gives it to fat traders. They sell it (merchants sell this fat to soap factories, kebab makers. Launch wood is also found to save water loss). Butcher fat sells at Rs. 50 to Rs. 70 per kg while melted. The price of fat is Rs 90 to Rs 110 per kg. According to an estimate, a 3-man animal produces at least 30 kg of fat and according to this calculation, large animals get up to Rs 2,000 extra in terms of fat.
Seasonal butchers also get a good salary. The number of professional experienced butchers is not as much as the demand, so inexperienced butchers also work in groups on a daily basis, and some even slaughter animals alone. A butcher named Shahid says that slaughtering animals is not such a difficult task. A large number of people slaughter their own sacrificial animals and also do the work of cleaning and chopping the meat themselves. The only difference is that the professional butcher takes less time, works cleaner, and instead of mixing all the meat, each part of the meat is separated while the herbs are small and the fat is cleaned well. Inexperienced butchers make large pieces of meat and do not clean it well while also damaging the skin and mixing the meat of the neck, thighs, thighs, and other parts. However, butchers say That inexperienced butchers are enough for people who are not in high demand.