The way your Granny likely sold her RIRs was to the local produce warehouse, all her farm neighbors had their own poultry. Before the Interstate highways there was one or more produce houses in every community, usually near the railroad tracks so that they had quick and easy access to incoming freight as well as a convenient way to express ship out the perishables that the produce house accumulated from local sources, things like butter, green beans, cured pork, fruit in season, eggs, and of course live chickens. In the 50s the local produce houses started going the way of the passenger pigeon, which by the way in the 1800s the produce houses shipped out in their millions.
LOL--- the spouse in a dress is the survival of the marriage!!!! lol I ask my kids for the truth not my DH . lolSo Arielle,
Do you think if you advertised naturally raised free ranged birds for 3.00 lb thats not to exp? I feed organic, BUT I do not pay the 2,000 for the certification, and was told by the State of Ohio Ag Dept. That it would be false advertising regardless what I feed, unless they come inspect my farm, and find that its up to par, and pay the big dollars. " I think" its 2,000... I know it was a ton of money.. So they told me to say Naturally raised, and to stress that when you go to Whole Foods, and can buy it for 1.99 a lb and it says free ranged to explain to the customer, that "free ranged" does not mean it was outside.. It means it had access to outside, but maybe never seen a day of sunshine in its life. She said, you should take pics of your birds outside, as even if a customer believes you, if you say, let me send you some pics, if there was a 1% chance of wondering, you probably just took it away, and than when there friends say, how do you really know it was free ranged, ppl can just say that to get us to pay more money. Than your "customer" would say, oh man, he sent me pics, different dates, and I believe him.
And yes, I know you can set a bird outside, take a picture, put it back inside, next day take a picture outside, and rinse and repeat, and say, See, my birds outside, look at the dates.. I believe som may do that.. Some ppl are VERY shaddy, while some are actually to honest. I feel that if you tell a lie, even the smallest lie that affected nobody, that you have to keep remembering that small lie so you do not slip up, and that tiny lie becomes a bigger lie.. And once your caught lying, or even someone suspects you are, why should they EVER believe you again.. As a man, I always say all I have to offer you is my word! Once that word is broken, I probably lost a friend,customer, others who believed in me by word of mouth, and than its only downhill... So just be a straight shooter even if its something people do not want to hear...
I have had ex's say do I look good in this dress... As a bf, I should say, yes darling you look fantastic!! As who I am, i am like, ummm. hunny, u looked better in the other dress, I am blunt, but honest on everything
There is a federal exemption as long as you sell directly off of your farm, don't sell across state lines, and don't sell more than a thousand chickens per year including the ones you keep for personal use. Look up your state and the federal exemption. Here it is, the one for SC:
