I have turkeys and i want to raise them to sell for people to eat….?
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Question by Blond Chick: I have turkeys and i want to raise them to sell for people to eat….?
are there any license or anything i have to follow to be able to do this… by the way if it helps i live in California
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you have to have license or else u will get arrested =]
Izzay BABii!<3
October 7, 2012 at 3:05 pm
It really depends on where you live, and the number of birds you have. Raising turkeys can be difficult. They need to be grown slowly, they have problems with their bodies getting to big for their legs. Their legs can become weak and break. There is a special society that raises turkeys they way they would grow in the wild. Ask your local D. E. C. about licenses.
Amelia
October 7, 2012 at 3:50 pm
If you keep it real small scale (basically just person-to-person business, no commercial vendors or anything), I THINK you should be able to get by without really licensing. It’s sort of like the people who sell eggs on highway off-ramps. They are too small for the government to really bother with (…as long as no one ends up getting sick….).
The likelihood of making it commercially on a larger scale is basically nihl, though (especially in California where you have Foster Farms to compete with in even the local markets). You might be able to get a toe-hold in the organics market (especially since a lot of people who buy organic would prefer to do small and personal instead of big and corporate) but, in order to do that, you’d have to be certified. There are websites dedicated to how to gain organic certification if you want to go that way. “Improved welfare” meat is also a rising market; there is no regulation of the title (as far as I know) so you wouldn’t have to jump through as many hoops as going organic. Since there are concerns about cruelty even in organic productions (for instance, not being able to treat sick animals with antibiotics because it violates organic standards), you could find a niche there, too. Again, it would probably work best on the very small, very local scale.
Okay, enough rambling from me. GOOD LUCK!
Gena
October 7, 2012 at 4:11 pm