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Been trying to reply for an hour, but alas the software is having trouble. Seems to be a problem with his MySQL server...
Ya know, Al, I was wondering how I got that pretty new cage. I couldn't remember bidding on it, but now I know.
The plan was to bring it to the next Fletcher, but if you need it today for Blanch I can run it up to your place, provided the server stays up long enough for you to see this and to respond. Just let me know.
Mighty nice of you to offer all that freezer space, but I think I got a handle on it for now.
PnB, the rule is, you get 1,000 "bird units" per annum, and a turkey equals 4 bird units. Apparently all other birds are one each, even a goose, so your ducks are 1 apiece. One of my projects over the next year is to lobby our lawmakers to dump the OK specific regs and just go with the USDA guideline. That is 20,000 birds a year that you can process in a non-USDA inspected facility if you raised them on your own farm. Makes no sense for a state like Oklahoma to have more strict regulations than the federal government. Something just doesn't compute there.
Here are the federal examptions:
1. The producer/grower slaughters and processes, on his or her own
premises, no more than 20,000 poultry, raised by him or her, in a
calendar year;
2. The producer/grower sells, in a calendar year, only poultry or
poultry products he or she prepares according to the criteria for the
Producer/Grower 20,000 Limit Exemption; he or she may not buy
or sell poultry products prepared under another exemption in the
same calendar year in which he or she claims the Producer/Grower
20,000 Limit Exemption [PPIA Section (464)(c)(1) last sentence
before (c)(2)];
3. The poultry products are distributed solely by the producer/grower
and only within the District of Columbia or the State or Territory in
which the poultry product is produced.
4. The poultry are healthy when slaughtered;
5. The slaughter and processing at the producer/growers premises
are conducted using sanitary standards, practices, and procedures
that produce poultry products that are sound, clean, and fit for use
as human food (not adulterated);
6. The producer only distributes poultry products he or she produced
under the Producer/Grower Exemption;
7. The facility used to slaughter or process the poultry is not used to
slaughter or process another persons poultry unless the
Administrator of FSIS grants an exemption [PPIA Section 464(c)(3);
Title 9 CFR 381.10b)(2)]
8. The shipping containers, when distributed in intrastate commerce
(instead of the required features of a label of inspected product)
bear:
a. producers name,
b. producer's address, and
c, the statement, Exempt P.L. 90-492.
