Selling meat

[hoodat]

So pretty much what I am getting out of everything is that there is really nothing wrong with putting up a sign on the back of your vehicle window stating, your rabbitry, bunnies for sale, and rabbit meat for sale. I can see where you may have to tippy toe a little but really no harm in anything.

Be aware that the so called "animal rights" people have a lot of nutcases among their members. A sign like that can subject your vehicle to vandalism or, worse yet, tip them off so they can call in the humane society whether justified or not. Sad to say all rabbit raisers have to be on our guard these days.

 

[ClintDowns]

So pretty much what I am getting out of everything is that there is really nothing wrong with putting up a sign on the back of your vehicle window stating, your rabbitry, bunnies for sale, and rabbit meat for sale. I can see where you may have to tippy toe a little but really no harm in anything.

Be aware that the so called "animal rights" people have a lot of nutcases among their members. A sign like that can subject your vehicle to vandalism or, worse yet, tip them off so they can call in the humane society whether justified or not. Sad to say all rabbit raisers have to be on our guard these days.

I agree with you totally. There are a bunch of dummies out there that should be grazing the land like cows. Everyone has ate meat but some think they can live off of grass. Well more power to the dummies. I will be moving my shed with cages and rabbits to my yard this Saturday. I am very excited about the whole ordeal. If I do do something like that I will definitely be very sensitive with wording. Thanks to you guys and this site, you all definitely help and make people think about all angles.

 

[zzGypsy]

The way to get around that is you sell the rabbit live and provide butchering as a free service.

If you are selling straight up meat.. then yes, it needs to have the USDA stamp unless you are offering it for pet use I believe. Your state may vary on regs for pet use products.

Check your state laws. Some states mandate that you cannot provide any type of butchering service. Better to be safe than sorry.

Yeah, meant to phrase that differently to indicate to check for both. In WV if you are processing under 1000 a year you can process and sell but need to keep track of your own everything and you are recorded but not inspected. Something like that.

I think MO is similar to this but the numbers differ, here I think it's based on sales, not headcount.

however selling *pet* rabbits does have a federal headcount limit before you have to be licensed - that's been in the news alot lately because there's a guy not far from me who'd fighting a near $100,000 fine for selling a few hundred rabbits to petstores without the proper federal paperwork.

 

[hemet dennis]

Check your state laws. Some states mandate that you cannot provide any type of butchering service. Better to be safe than sorry.

Yeah, meant to phrase that differently to indicate to check for both. In WV if you are processing under 1000 a year you can process and sell but need to keep track of your own everything and you are recorded but not inspected. Something like that.

I think MO is similar to this but the numbers differ, here I think it's based on sales, not headcount.

however selling *pet* rabbits does have a federal headcount limit before you have to be licensed - that's been in the news alot lately because there's a guy not far from me who'd fighting a near $100,000 fine for selling a few hundred rabbits to petstores without the proper federal paperwork.

Last I heard on that guy was he settled and he cant sell any for 2 years and no fine.

 

[zzGypsy]

Yeah, meant to phrase that differently to indicate to check for both. In WV if you are processing under 1000 a year you can process and sell but need to keep track of your own everything and you are recorded but not inspected. Something like that.

I think MO is similar to this but the numbers differ, here I think it's based on sales, not headcount.

however selling *pet* rabbits does have a federal headcount limit before you have to be licensed - that's been in the news alot lately because there's a guy not far from me who'd fighting a near $100,000 fine for selling a few hundred rabbits to petstores without the proper federal paperwork.

Last I heard on that guy was he settled and he cant sell any for 2 years and no fine.

did that just happen? heard him on local radio about 3 weeks ago and they were still wanting $94,000. of course, that's down from the $4mil they started at...

 

[hemet dennis]

I think MO is similar to this but the numbers differ, here I think it's based on sales, not headcount.

however selling *pet* rabbits does have a federal headcount limit before you have to be licensed - that's been in the news alot lately because there's a guy not far from me who'd fighting a near $100,000 fine for selling a few hundred rabbits to petstores without the proper federal paperwork.

Last I heard on that guy was he settled and he cant sell any for 2 years and no fine.

did that just happen? heard him on local radio about 3 weeks ago and they were still wanting $94,000. of course, that's down from the $4mil they started at...

Yea someone on the chicken site said it was in the last couple of weeks.