Waterboro, MaineLocally Owned20+ Years' Butchering Experience

Counter hoursWed–Fri 12–6 · Saturday 10–6 · Sunday 10–5

Perry Butcher Co.Call to Order(207) 808-7255Call

Waterboro, Maine

Custom butchering, meat shares and fresh Maine lobster in Waterboro

A locally owned shop with more than twenty years of butchering and processing. Beef and pork for the people who raised them, shares for the people who did not, and Maine seafood for anyone who does not feel like driving to the coast.

Call the Shop(207) 808-7255Lobster & seafood
  • Locally owned
  • Butchers with 20+ years' experience
  • Counter open Wednesday–Sunday
A butcher at Perry Butcher Co. in Waterboro, Maine holding a bone-in beef rib roast

What the shop does

  1. Cattle & swine

    Custom processing

    Custom-exempt beef and pork processing for animals you already own. You bring the animal and the cut sheet; the work comes back organized, wrapped, labeled and marked not for sale.

    How processing works

  2. A freezer, filled properly

    Beef & pork shares

    Buy an ownership interest in a live animal and choose how your portion is cut: your steak thickness, your roast size, your pack counts, instead of whatever a box happens to contain.

    How shares work

  3. Lobster, picked meat, steamers

    Fresh Maine seafood

    Maine lobster live or steamed, picked lobster meat and steamer clams, inland in Waterboro, without the drive to the coast. Call ahead: what is in changes day to day.

    Lobster, picked meat and steamers

Behind the counter

Good processing is mostly listening, then not making mistakes

Anyone can take an animal apart. The part that takes twenty years is knowing what a customer actually meant when they said “a couple of roasts”, and keeping one family’s order straight from the day it arrives to the day they carry it out.

That is most of the job here: reading the cut sheet properly, cutting to it, labeling clearly, and telling you straight when something on your sheet will not work the way you are picturing it.

More about the shop and the people in it

What that comes down to

  • Clean work.
  • Orders cut the way they were written.
  • Straight answers when you call.
A butcher’s block and knives on the work counter at Perry Butcher Co.
The work counter

Meat shares

Fill the freezer once, eat well all year

A share means buying an ownership interest in a live animal and then having your portion cut the way you want it. It is how you end up with a freezer full of the cuts you actually cook, rather than a box someone else packed.

One rule matters more than the rest: for custom-exempt processing the ownership has to be arranged before slaughter, while the animal is alive. Call early and it is a non-event.

How shares work, step by step
Wrapped and labeled beef packages ready for a customer to collect
ShareBeefSteaks at your thickness, roasts at your size, and ground made from trim off the whole carcass rather than one lean muscle.Beef sharesSharePorkChops, shoulder, ribs and ground. More genuinely different cuts per pound than a beef will give you.Pork shares

Custom-exempt processing

Your animal, your cuts, marked not for sale

Perry Butcher Co. processes beef and pork that customers already own, taking hogs whole and half hogs. Because the meat comes back to the owner rather than going to retail, it is processed under Maine's custom exemption and every package is marked not for sale.

Side of beef — primal cutsA diagram of a side of beef divided into its primal cuts: chuck and brisket and shank at the front, rib and short loin and plate through the middle, sirloin and flank behind them, and the round at the hind end.SIDE OF BEEF — PRIMAL CUTSChuckRibShortLoinSirloinRoundShankBrisketPlateFlankShank
Beef processing
Side of pork — primal cutsA diagram of a side of pork divided into its primal cuts: shoulder, picnic and hock at the front, loin and ribs along the back with the belly beneath, and the ham at the hind end.SIDE OF PORK — PRIMAL CUTSShoulderLoinRibsHamHockPicnicBellyHock
Pork processing

Not sure what any of that means yet? The beef and pork cut sheets explain each primal in plain English and print onto one page.

Fresh Maine seafood

Maine lobster, without the drive to the coast

Perry Butcher Co. carries fresh Maine lobster in Waterboro. Take them live and cook them yourself, or ask to have them steamed and carry them home ready to eat. Picked lobster meat and steamer clams alongside them.

Lobster from $9.99/lb

Lobster sizes & pricesCall to Order(207) 808-7255
A tray of steamed Maine lobster, steamer clams and corn on the cob from Perry Butcher Co., with the shop behind

The four market sizes

  • Chix1 – 1¼ lb
  • Quarters1¼ – 1½ lb
  • Halves1½ – 1¾ lb
  • Jumbos1¾ lb and up
The full size guide, live and steamed
Perry Butcher Co. Lobster Roll Kit package — the kraft carrier box with a labeled tub of freshly picked Maine lobster meat, two brioche buns, mayonnaise and wooden utensils

From the seafood counter

Lobster Roll Kit

Everything you need for two full lobster rolls, boxed and ready to take home.

Price$36.99

  • 8 oz (1/2 lb) freshly picked lobster meat
  • 2 brioche buns
  • Mayo
  • Salt & pepper
  • Utensils

Makes 2 full lobster rolls.

Additional rolls available for a small additional charge.

Call to Order a Kit(207) 808-7255
Freshly picked Maine lobster meat from Perry Butcher Co. — claw, knuckle and tail pieces on butcher paper
Picked lobster meatSkip the crackingReady to use for rolls, chowder and anything where you want the meat and not the hour of shell work. Available when it is available, so call ahead.Picked lobster meat
Fresh soft-shell steamer clams at Perry Butcher Co., bagged in green mesh in a tote
Steamer clamsThe other half of the mealSoft-shell steamers alongside the lobster, for the version of a Maine dinner that involves a pot, some butter and a lot of napkins.Steamer clams

Visit the shop

Waterboro, ME — open Wednesday to Sunday

The same counter serves all three sides of the business. Processing dates, share availability and what seafood is in all move week to week, so the fastest route to an answer is a short conversation.

Directions & contactRead the FAQ
What does custom-exempt processing mean?
It means the animal is yours before it is processed, and the meat comes back to you for your own use.
Can I sell meat from a custom-exempt animal?
No.
When should I fill out my cut sheet?
Before your processing date, and ideally before you have to think about it under pressure.
How do beef and pork shares work?
You buy an ownership interest in a live animal, and then that animal is custom processed for the people who own it.

Counter hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
12 PM – 6 PM
Thursday
12 PM – 6 PM
Friday
12 PM – 6 PM
Saturday
10 AM – 6 PM
Sunday
10 AM – 5 PM

Booking an animal, a share, or a lobster order?

Processing dates, share availability and what seafood is in all change week to week. One call is faster than any form.

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Perry Butcher Co.303 Main StEast Waterboro, ME 04030

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