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Technically that is the law here as well. They have shut down all the small mobile processors. Why? control, money, pressure from the big commercial processors but they don't have the staff to enforce it. Ridiculous bureaucratic cow poo.
People still sell their birds to somebody other than family.
What happens if they get caught? I don't know, I don't sell my birds, I either eat them or I give them away as presents for favors done for me.
We have one small government inspected processor 30 miles from me. In my area the wealthy City folks moved to the country then complained about the local abattoirs and had them shut down.
The Government here can't even give you a straight answer on selling eggs. It seems every department has a different answer. Some say yes, some say no.
So until they can get their act together and come up with a firm answer, people will still sell eggs off their property.
If we get caught it is supposed to be a $25,000-$50,000. fine. Don't know if they actually do that, but they have had extreme cases where the chickens were confiscated at gun point and the farm shut down; practically sent out the swat team. You definitely want to stay off the radar. Same rules apply to eggs. People do deliver meat as well even though it is illegal. I would hesitate to trust people not to rat if they got sick from anything at all including the flu therefore it is very difficult to make any money with processing costs such as they are, and being limited to 300 chickens a year. There can be no doubt that someone somewhere wants small farms shut down completely.
Good Grief you think they would have something better to do?
The someone somewhere would be the big boys. The big boy muscle behind the Government.
Saputo maybe?
Technically that is the law here as well. They have shut down all the small mobile processors. Why? control, money, pressure from the big commercial processors but they don't have the staff to enforce it. Ridiculous bureaucratic cow poo.
People still sell their birds to somebody other than family.
What happens if they get caught? I don't know, I don't sell my birds, I either eat them or I give them away as presents for favors done for me.
We have one small government inspected processor 30 miles from me. In my area the wealthy City folks moved to the country then complained about the local abattoirs and had them shut down.
The Government here can't even give you a straight answer on selling eggs. It seems every department has a different answer. Some say yes, some say no.
So until they can get their act together and come up with a firm answer, people will still sell eggs off their property.
If we get caught it is supposed to be a $25,000-$50,000. fine. Don't know if they actually do that, but they have had extreme cases where the chickens were confiscated at gun point and the farm shut down; practically sent out the swat team. You definitely want to stay off the radar. Same rules apply to eggs. People do deliver meat as well even though it is illegal. I would hesitate to trust people not to rat if they got sick from anything at all including the flu therefore it is very difficult to make any money with processing costs such as they are, and being limited to 300 chickens a year. There can be no doubt that someone somewhere wants small farms shut down completely.
Good Grief you think they would have something better to do?
The someone somewhere would be the big boys. The big boy muscle behind the Government.
