Inside the Syracuse slaughterhouse where nuisance deer become food for thousands

Around 1:30 a.m. on a mild night in late March, a white pickup truck pulled into the parking lot at Marsh Mill Ranch, a deer processing facility the size of a large garage located in a swampy corner of Kirkville.

Two men got out of the truck, opened the tail gate, and began sliding out plastic skiffs loaded with deer carcasses.

The men were sharpshooters with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services hired to kill nuisance deer in communities with deer management programs. They dropped the dead deer in a pool of light spilling from an open doorway…

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