Calling Meat Poultry Producers (Chicken, Turkey, Duck, Goose, ect.)

[Brunty_Farms]

Jaku,

I have seen some of the things that you have made and honestly it wouldn't be that hard for you to do. Instead of hooking the water to a septic... hook it up to a storage tank and dispose of the waste water at your local sewage plant. Mine happens to be a few miles down the road from me.

3-5 grand would be an initial hit but that is only a few hundred broilers....

If you go this route keep us updated.... You will be surprised how fast your customers keep building. I too did the whole friends, co-workers, and family thing... before I knew it, I was doing more than just a couple hundred a year.

 

[Buster52]

This is a really cool thread. It's putting a lot of new ideas in my head that never occurred to me.

My intent has been for generating enough income somehow just to pay for our own birds we consume, but with some of this information here the idea of perhaps making a small profit beyond that is starting to seem like a real possibility.

So, thanks, y'all!

 

[2manychixs]

For Michigan under the Deptment of agriculture, under farmers market section @ thier wedsite.

More than 20,000 birds per year HAS to be inspected. Small poultry producers may have ther birds processed either @ a USDA inspeced or an MDA inspected facility.

selling you packaged meat @ a farmer makret requires sanitary handling and temps. Packaged meats may be sold frozen or refridge @ or below 41 degrees. Handling of exposed i.e. unpackaged meat or poultry is not permitted.

So in my research of Michigan, You may raise and sell you own chickens, Only if processed @ an inspected site. Plus you may sell frozen at farmers mrk. ( again if processed @ an inspected site).

In reviewing Michigan agri it is illigal to sell chickens you processed yourself if not inspected by USDA or MDA.

Word of advice in Michigan, not all inspectors no the full law. You may be told one thing by the inspector but beware that he/she may not have studied the full law(1000s, of paperwork to study).
I have a plant insector in south west Michigan who knows nothing. I know more, tons more. 80% of the plant nurseries would be shut down is this guy knew h is stuff. When I visit other wholesalers I can't belive they were not shut down.

Food for thought!.

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Flock
14 araucanas(1 roo, 1 single leg), 34 iza brown, 10 speckled sussex(1 roo), 6 partiage rocks, 4 buff orphanington, 4 black australorps, 6 white rocks(2 are roos), 3 RIreds, 6 barred rocks, 5 guineas

 

[barrybro]

You contradict yourself in what you wrote. You say if OVER 20,000 you have to use an inspected facility. What about 19,999. The fact that there even is a number involved would tell me that there is an amount that can be sold using on farm processing.

Barry

 

[Le Canard de Barbarie]

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In Miichigan, to sell less than 20,000 processed poultry to others and be barely legal, your facility must be approved by the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA).

 

[jaku]

The "under 20,000" gets you exempt from federal/USDA inspection, NOT MDA inspection.

 

[barrybro]

Got it, thanks for clarifying.

Barry

 

[Thavg]

So Jaku you are inspected by the MDA? I'm just trying to see this thing straight. You are suppossed to have them processed at a licensed place and should not process them at home but under 20,000 even if they are processed at a facility you still need MDA inspection. This post is extremely interesting and the Michigan content is relative to me. So if I home process say 300 birds, I need an MDA inspection? The way the last post seemed to me was either way you need a MDA inspection.

 

[CARS]

Since this thread came back up I was wondering if those of you that have contracts would post them? I'd like to get some ideas for my own contract.

 

[BirchHatchery]

i sells eggs and i sell meat the biggest cost is feed free ranging helps alot but i reard all mine in barn since i got 100s at a time i get feed for 75 pounds for 10 bucks i make profit on that not huge but i come out ahead. but what i did to really make the money is raise pullets From Day olds to ready to lay i would get 100 or whatever i wanted a time usually leghorn pullets because their cheap and even cheapier to raise takes 1.20 worth grain thats rounded up to raise one on my feed from 1 day old to ready to lay id get em 85 cents a peice normally i would sell out off all the chicks i got at 2-3 months of age i set prices for a per age basis 1 month old was dollar 2 2 dollars and so on sometimes selling them for more if i new the person would give it and some would i was sellin leghorn pullets 2 months of age for 3 a peice tops was 4 o man buy time they hit 17 or 18 weeks old 6 dollars a head thats purdy good money i also expeirmented with barred rocks and could really sell them for more 2 month old i was sellin them for 4 a peice but added it that payin for the shippin on them wasnlt worth the extra dollar i maid the leghorn pullets i obtained close and cheap i jus got and pick them up 20 miles away. jus have to see what the market is on the birds ppl want but most buy anythang that lays around here also figure what u can get cheap i dont really do this anymore now that im workin but i sell eggs and meat do real good at that