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There are grants available to help with the costs of getting the Organic certification, but not for the start-up costs alone.
I have someone that will pay $4+ a dozen for all the eggs I can supply, no organic certification required and I can raise my birds however I want. My bet is that these guys (WLW?) would not be able to pay more than that.
I do think co-operative work is the way to make commercial poultry raising feasible for us in AK. Combining orders for bulk feed, possibly putting together a large commercial incubator for our own use, and getting a USDA Mobile Processing Unit so we can sell meat birds to restaurants and people like this is the way to go. Still, profit margins will be slim, but it will make it more feasible.
I wonder if Glacier Valley Farm co-op would have the same organic cert requirements? They have offered to buy rabbits, but I have to get them USDA inspected! Argh!
Its actually illegal to sell eggs off the farm without a license.
Furthermore, places like WLW cannot sell eggs unless they are being funneled through a certified and licensed farm that has inspections.
The other trouble I see with all of the birds in one place, is you just end up having a commercial farm. Whereas if its kept small and local, you greatly reduce the issue of disease and crowding.
I think we need to get more people raising there own!
I look at our little neighborhood and wish that we could get everyone working together. There is one whole lot that could be turned into a garden for all of us. We have chickens.
Other neighbors have room for goats......
There are grants available to help with the costs of getting the Organic certification, but not for the start-up costs alone.
I have someone that will pay $4+ a dozen for all the eggs I can supply, no organic certification required and I can raise my birds however I want. My bet is that these guys (WLW?) would not be able to pay more than that.
I do think co-operative work is the way to make commercial poultry raising feasible for us in AK. Combining orders for bulk feed, possibly putting together a large commercial incubator for our own use, and getting a USDA Mobile Processing Unit so we can sell meat birds to restaurants and people like this is the way to go. Still, profit margins will be slim, but it will make it more feasible.
I wonder if Glacier Valley Farm co-op would have the same organic cert requirements? They have offered to buy rabbits, but I have to get them USDA inspected! Argh!
Its actually illegal to sell eggs off the farm without a license.
Furthermore, places like WLW cannot sell eggs unless they are being funneled through a certified and licensed farm that has inspections.
The other trouble I see with all of the birds in one place, is you just end up having a commercial farm. Whereas if its kept small and local, you greatly reduce the issue of disease and crowding.
I think we need to get more people raising there own!
I look at our little neighborhood and wish that we could get everyone working together. There is one whole lot that could be turned into a garden for all of us. We have chickens.
Other neighbors have room for goats......
