Washingtonians

[Chicken Rustler]

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I live in Yakima WA. I am allowed to sell butchered birds off my property with out any inspections/license. Should I have more than 1,000 birds, I would then need a commercial license. I have not looked into other livestock. I have found a local guy who will butcher, shrink wrap and freeze birds -- for about 3 to 4 bucks each.


I hope this helps you

Dave

Actually, you do need a license, but it's easy to get (they don't do an inspection, but you need to send a diagram of your set-up). You need to inform state authorities on which days you butcher, you must sell the birds in the first 48 hours, and they must not be cut up, they must be whole, and must be sold from your property. You are right though about the number, except it's not that simple. For chickens it would be 1000, but it's a smaller number for turkeys - some kind of point system.

The best market is to sell live birds, because you can find the right kind of market easily, and you don't need all the complicated stuff like my DH has - the Featherman plucker, scalder, kill cones etc. And then, it's up to me to vacu-seal them. If you live in an area where there is a good Asian population, they prefer live birds, and they pay well. The best way to advertise is to put a flyer up at your local Asian markets, with photos (ask for permission of course), and if you give the owner a bird for free, he's much more likely to be co-operative

You can put the little tags on the bottom of the flyer with your phone number so they can pull them off and take your number home. I have had some good buyers for my ducks this way!

Good luck

And once again I say easier to beg forgiveness than seek permission.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Hey we can hear those down here too. True story just made it up. NO NO NO REALLY !!!!! I can hear em down here. Kind of amazing I can hear those, can hear the jet sleds on the cowlitz over 5 miles away and can hear bats at night. But talking on the phone really sucks Can barely understand anybody.

 

[Ogress]

I've been watching the propane fire in Lincoln, CA. That is where my sister lives. My niece was supposed to have her first day of High School today, but it has been cancelled because the school is directly across the street from the burning rail car. My sister is a little ways outside of the evacuation zone, but the only street going in and out of her neighborhood is blocked off except to locals. She has 10 people staying with her now. My kids are worried that Awful Annies might burn - they'd miss their favorite breakfast place!

My niece posted photos of her and her friends on FB at the school in the middle of the night! They snuck out at 1 am and were in the hallway in their PJ's. I was horrified at her stupidity until I saw the photos were taken the night before. Whew. I was hoping someone related to me was not that stupid.

 

[Kaneke]

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Hey we can hear those down here too. True story just made it up. NO NO NO REALLY !!!!! I can hear em down here. Kind of amazing I can hear those, can hear the jet sleds on the cowlitz over 5 miles away and can hear bats at night. But talking on the phone really sucks Can barely understand anybody.

would not be surprised to find you could hear those, especially if you hear the IMPACTS since the ground carries "noise" of that sort pretty well

you may not know we live on an airport, so we're accustomed to all sorts of odd noises now and then ... though the two airplanes that took off late last night were a bit of a surprise (twin-engine types, on Instrument plans) --- 11:30 at night is not a time of great activity here

chickens have become accustomed to the aerial travel (we are also right within the flight path for the bases and under one of the routes for SeaTac as well) and ignore most any of them except sometimes the helicopters .... so we have everything from powered parachutes to C-17s overhead or taking off ... also the civilian medivac helicopters (AirLift NW -- when I worked at Seattle Flight I used to dispatch them) taking high-risk patients to Olympia or Seattle

haven't FELT any impacts .. always have to differentiate those from earthquakes, since there is a fault line on the south edge of our property, didn't know about it until Mount Saint Helens blew ... and amazingly it didn't shake during the Olympia quake a few years back

anyway the chickens don't seem to be noticing it, and with my low-frequency hearing loss I haven't heard anything unusual recently

 

[chickens4gramma]

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So sorry about your fluffy cat. It is so hard to lose them, they are part of the family. Sending you hugs

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Hey we can hear those down here too. True story just made it up. NO NO NO REALLY !!!!! I can hear em down here. Kind of amazing I can hear those, can hear the jet sleds on the cowlitz over 5 miles away and can hear bats at night. But talking on the phone really sucks Can barely understand anybody.

I'm not surprised at all that you can hear them now- it's the 155mm Howitchers, which have the biggest bang, and it's the kind of weather that sound propagates really well in.

I'm just glad they've moved the WW1 style big guns East of the Mountain, although I suspect Pettec and Velvet Fog aren't.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Hey we can hear those down here too. True story just made it up. NO NO NO REALLY !!!!! I can hear em down here. Kind of amazing I can hear those, can hear the jet sleds on the cowlitz over 5 miles away and can hear bats at night. But talking on the phone really sucks Can barely understand anybody.

would not be surprised to find you could hear those, especially if you hear the IMPACTS since the ground carries "noise" of that sort pretty well

you may not know we live on an airport, so we're accustomed to all sorts of odd noises now and then ... though the two airplanes that took off late last night were a bit of a surprise (twin-engine types, on Instrument plans) --- 11:30 at night is not a time of great activity here

chickens have become accustomed to the aerial travel (we are also right within the flight path for the bases and under one of the routes for SeaTac as well) and ignore most any of them except sometimes the helicopters .... so we have everything from powered parachutes to C-17s overhead or taking off ... also the civilian medivac helicopters (AirLift NW -- when I worked at Seattle Flight I used to dispatch them) taking high-risk patients to Olympia or Seattle

haven't FELT any impacts .. always have to differentiate those from earthquakes, since there is a fault line on the south edge of our property, didn't know about it until Mount Saint Helens blew ... and amazingly it didn't shake during the Olympia quake a few years back

anyway the chickens don't seem to be noticing it, and with my low-frequency hearing loss I haven't heard anything unusual recently

It wasn't unusual or unheard of, but there was a twenty minute rolling fire bombardment this morning, with the Howitzers instead of mere mortars.

I'm actually closer to some of the guns (the ones at the north end of Nisqually Prairie, across the river from the north end of the Nisqually Reservation) than most people realize; you're closer to the impact zone, I get the muzzle noise. When I lived close to the Ramtha house, back when that was a plain little farm and there were still Bobwhites on the Prairie, we were sort of equidistant to both, and had to have rails on the cupboard shelves to keep the dishes from walking off when there was a continued bombardment like this morning. The noise doesn't bother me nearly as bad as it bothers Griz, who flips the heck out (and who gets muscle tremors from Prozac, which is what our vet prescribes for noise fear).

 

[MomToTheZoo]

Hey all! I am fairly new to chickens and this forum. Though I have been lurking on this forum longer than I have had chicks.

I am Mom to seven children, one border collie, and eight chicks

I live on Camano Island. Nice to meet you all

 

[Kaneke]

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you already know we are talkative here -- just jump on in ...

 

[Kaneke]

Stumpfarmer (Julia) -- there may no longer be bobwhites on the prairie, but there ARE wild quail and pheasants on the woodland between us and Stewart's Arena, between us and Stewart's Meats ....

have had to hit the brakes several times recently, to avoid the scurrying of quail and the explosion of pheasant flight, as I drove down the road (luckily my old Trooper makes enough noise that they do their best to get out of the way)

mostly when I go to town, I go the other way, to avoid that hazardous left turn onto 507