Anyone Sell Butchered Quail?

[Orange Ribbon]

I found the USDA exemption laws. The link is below. Under the federal law you can kill up to 1000 birds a year provided they were raised on your farm and are not going out of state. There is also an exemption for those who kill 20,000 birds or less that is pretty easy to fall under.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/rdad/FSISNotices/Poultry_Slaughter_Exemption_0406.pdf

I checked with my local health dept. and they didn't know anything. They took my name and number and said they'd get back to me. Probably will have a USDA inspector knocking on my door next week wanting to see the facilities I don't even have.

 

[bfrancis]

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Thanks for the link! I don't think I'll sell butchered quail, but its always nice to know what's out there.

 

[The Critter Place]

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Thanks for the link! I don't think I'll sell butchered quail, but its always nice to know what's out there.

I have a small yard, and don't think I"ll have room to raise enough to sell. And agree it's nice to have options though.

But do have friends and family wanting quail. So we work things out in trade.

I give dad quail and in the summer get goodies from his garden! and similar trades with friends. It's nice and works out in the end.

Is there a way to get that link added to the stickies? I'm not sure how that works.

 

[chrishel]

Good to know on the USDA regulation. Not that I intend to start selling. Then again, you never know. I could end up on TV spouting how you can leave your day job in front of a computer by getting in to the fun and lucrative quail farming business. (Sorry, it's Friday!

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In Illinois, there's two different licenses for breeders:

Wild Game & Bird Breeder, Class A is required to possess various game mammals, game birds and migratory waterfowl. Class A is noncommercial and does not allow licensees to sell.
Wild Game & Bird Breeder, Class B covers the same as class A plus allows license holders to sell alive or dressed for food purposes.

Class A is $10.50, Class B is $20.50 per year.

 

[mochicken]

That is cheap for the license but dont forget that it would not cover the fact that you have to have the USDA approved butcher facility and probably a business license and insurance to sell them, it only takes one person who claims they got sick eating your "poisonous tainted quail" to take everything you own. Best bet is to sell the live birds, I know you dont think you will have that many but if you own an incubator you will have more than you need lol

Hatching and raising for 6-8 weeks is fairly cheap, especially if you have your own eggs so to hatch some and raise them to sell them will only pay for itself if you raise a pretty good bunch. I plan to hatch 30 or more at a time, keep 10 or so for myself, sell newly hatched chicks for 1.50-2.00 and 8 week old birds for 3.50-4.00 so selling some of them may pay for food for the time I spent raising them lol

If you tell the people that you are selling live birds and they can butcher then you may lose a couple people but most people who eat quail are willing to do the work for a good farm raised quail

 

[D3invertebrates]

I would imagine with the way things are that selling live birds is just as illegal without all the proper government approved bs.

 

[Orange Ribbon]

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Maybe in some states this is true, but the law varies from state to state. Here in Virginia it is illegal to own bobwhite quail unless you have a permit, and it is illegal to sell them to anyone unless they also have a permit. Coturnix quail do not fall under that category and can be owned and sold without any permits. So you have to check your state laws to know for yourself.

I noticed that in the stickies someone said that Virginia was vague in their requirements for a permit for coturnix, and they are unless you look at a copy of the form you have to fill out for a quail permit. There they have bobwhites and two other breeds of quail listed with a box beside each one that you need to check to show which kind you are getting permits for. Coturnix are not listed on the form. You can go to the Va. Dept. of Game and Fisheries and look at the permit if you want to. I don't have a link for that, but you can go to the permits section and look through the list. I think it falls under owning wild animals or something like that. It isn't hard to find. Just thought I'd throw that out there incase someone from Virginia needs to know.

 

[chickbird]

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HERE IN GEORGIA IN THE AREA I LIVE, DAY OLD QUAIL SELL FOR 50 CENTS EACH AND 1-2 WK OLD $1.00 AND 4 WKS AROUND $2.00., I BOUGHT MY START OF 50 QUAIL IN OCT AND THEY WERE AROUND 4 WKS. BROWN JUMBO CORTURNIX AND I PAID ONLY A DOLLAR EACH.

 

[mochicken]

wow that is cheap, you can look at Craigslist and newspapers around me here in NWMO and you will see people selling bobwhites for 7.50 and Cots for 5-7 bucks lol

 

[The Critter Place]

I paid $1.50 each for 3 day olds. (Cots).. and have never seen adults for sale yet here in Tucson, Az.