Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

@Leigti there use to be a couple places in Tacoma that would do rabbit and chickens or turkeys
then return them packaged in plain plastic bag the last year Ma bought 100 birds to raise
we took them all in the old truck got there the place was closed I was visiting from college so must have been
1978

 

[pennyJo1960]

This is as political as I ever will

 

[Hinotori]

This is as political as I ever will

Oh, I so do not do politics either. This is nice and funny though

 

[Leigti]

Sorry you thought it wrong @leigti we have 8 cats love them all never wish pain on them

i'm just giving you a hard time.

 

[Leigti]

This is as political as I ever will

 

OK, that was Flippin hilarious.

 

[Duck Drover]

I wish we had a place locally where you could raise say chickens or rabbits goats etc. and then take them in and have those people process them. There are people that come out for cattle and sheep and I am assuming goats. But not for smaller things like chickens or rabbits. I could raise them to eat if someone else could do the dirty work. What can I say, I know it is a copout but oh well.

When I raised Muscovy ducks I used to sell the drakes live for $40 and butcher them for free. I could not charge for butchering but I never had any trouble getting $40 per drake I raised and sold that way (this was 20+ years ago). I actually had regular repeat customers with a wait list. I also sold balut when asked but I never advertised. Now I would be too worried about liability issues so I would not butcher for anyone other than my own family. I am not licensed or inspected as a butcher so it is not worth doing for people I don't know well. I would prefer to butcher my own meat but not if my daughter would be upset over eating her pet birds.

 

[Duck Drover]

If I could find someone that would come all the way out here to do pigs and goats, I would be raising those as well. I'm pretty much limited to what I can manage to process on my own. That rules out anything over 50 pounds.

We raised pigs and had a butcher come out for the kill and he would take the carcass to his shop for the cutting and wrapping. We raised goats too but we butchered our own, although mainly we sold them to people who did their own butchering. They would kill on our property and take everything away in plastic bags so there was never any mess. We raised and sold Suffolk sheep the same way. When it is a quick and humane kill it is just a part of life. It makes you appreciate your meat more when you raise it yourself but you also know the animal lived a good life and did not suffer.

 

[junebuggena]

There are only a few mobile butchers in the state currently, and none will come all the way out here.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Meat markets will have a list of mobiles
the one here does... that or go to home town
grocer finds the old man in the meat dept.

 

[junebuggena]

Meat markets will have a list of mobiles
the one here does... that or go to home town
grocer finds the old man in the meat dept.

I've tried them all. There just aren't enough people around here to make it worth the gas money.