Background:
I live in a subdivision
I don't like the current industrial food system (specifically the way meat animals are raised)
My response is to grow my own and sell excess product.
I "rent" (trade chickens for using their land) space at a friend's farm for my chicken tractor and raise small batch meat chickens.
This past Thursday I took my 26 chickens to butcher (along with 20 rabbits) .... I need to have them butchered at a government inspected facility to be able to sell to the public.... On the way back my friend called a friend and we ended up trading 12 chickens, pound for pound for locally pasture raised pork/beef.
Now that same individual has asked if I have any more? I have another 30 in the tractor now, due to go for processing July 21st... and another 30 in the brooder right now!
Could I have found my middle man for poultry sales!!??
Keep your fingers crossed for me..... If I do, I'm going to need to build another tractor (and another freezer lol)
I live in a subdivision
I don't like the current industrial food system (specifically the way meat animals are raised)
My response is to grow my own and sell excess product.
I "rent" (trade chickens for using their land) space at a friend's farm for my chicken tractor and raise small batch meat chickens.
This past Thursday I took my 26 chickens to butcher (along with 20 rabbits) .... I need to have them butchered at a government inspected facility to be able to sell to the public.... On the way back my friend called a friend and we ended up trading 12 chickens, pound for pound for locally pasture raised pork/beef.
Now that same individual has asked if I have any more? I have another 30 in the tractor now, due to go for processing July 21st... and another 30 in the brooder right now!
Could I have found my middle man for poultry sales!!??
Keep your fingers crossed for me..... If I do, I'm going to need to build another tractor (and another freezer lol)
