How much do you guys charge for pastured broilers and pastured heratige turkeys? and I have a Q abou

[Tumbleweed Farm]

ok so how many chickens and turkeys could I raise in a calander year all togather?

1,000

 

[Buster52]

ok so how many chickens and turkeys could I raise in a calander year all togather?

Depends on your state. This is the Oklahoma reg:

"The exemption also applies to those producers raising poultry on their own farm if the producers slaughter no more than 250 turkeys or no more than an equivalent number (250) of birds of all species in a calendar year. Four birds of other species are deemed the equivalent of one turkey."

From what I can tell for Ohio, turkeys are like any other poultry:

OHIO
The Law. The state Director of Agriculture in Ohio, through the Inspection Service of the Department’s Division of Meat Inspection, is responsible for poultry inspection. The Director is designated as the state official responsible for assuring maximum coordination and cooperation between state and federal programs for poultry and poultry product regulation. Exemptions from inspection include a person who processes poultry on his premises, or has poultry processed only for his personal or family use and does not sell that poultry or products, establishments subject to federal inspection, and persons who grow and slaughter on their own premises less than 1,000 poultry in the current calendar year, so long as the grower-processor does not buy any live poultry, and such processed poultry is sold to a hotel, institution, restaurant consumer, or other person for preparation in his own kitchen and is served by him. Persons exempted from inspection laws and regulations are still subject to provisions of the law relating to licensure, sanitation, adulteration, misbranding, and labeling.

Agency Contact. Those wishing additional information concerning poultry inspection in the state of Ohio should contact:

Ohio Department of Agriculture
8995 East Main Street
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-3399
614-466-2732
614-466-6124 (fax)

HACCP
Ohio Department of Agriculture
Division of Meat Inspection
8995 East Main Street
2nd Floor
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
614-728-6260
614-728-6434 (fax)

Source: http://www.sustainablepoultry.ncat.org/downloads/legalissues.pdf

 

[Jitamon]

I'm in Hawaii, on the Big Island.I have pasture raised flocks. I charge $4.00 for dressed whole birds. I grow Dark Cornish mostly. Feed cost $24.00 per 50lb bag of the kind I buy. Most organic feed is over $40 per 50lb bag. Believe it or not, Hawaii does not produce any grain. All Feed is shipped on barges, and imported to the different Islands. Feed costs are through the roof.
I have a couple people that I contact when I slaughter my chickens.It seems that most people wanna buy a couple, and get them on a discount. The way these little pigs with wings eat, Im screwing myself at $4.00/lb.

 

[WinklerFarms]

wow...thats ridiculous. I raise mine for about $1 to $1.10 per pound and sell them at $2/pound.

it sucks that feed costs are so high for you. Are you able to grown anything yourself to supplement?

 

[Hummingbird Hollow]

The site I just searched has organic "pastured" chicken at $4.09/lb plus shipping.