Comet007
Well-known member
I recently posted for advice about our CL ad to help us sell any extra meat rabbits. Well, today we had someone ask us if we would sell ALL of our surplus rabbits to them every two months when they are ready. We would sell them live, and the person buying them will ONLY be using/selling them to people for food in his area!
I've already researched, and we don't need any licensing to sell them this way, as long as they are live and only for food/fiber purposes. He wants them because he already has local demand in his area (about an hour and a half from us) for smallish quantities of organically raised local meat.
The price I set on my CL ad is $25-$35, with the buns being 4.5-5.5 pounds. Obviously this is a retail price - for anyone who sells wholesale, what do you think would be a fair price for organically fed rabbits that we don't have to process? It's hard to say for sure, but I think we will only have 10-15 extra rabbits each breeding cycle, but this should go a long way toward covering our feed costs!
Thanks in advance for any ideas on this, we're really excited, because this will be a LOT easier than selling one by one!
I've already researched, and we don't need any licensing to sell them this way, as long as they are live and only for food/fiber purposes. He wants them because he already has local demand in his area (about an hour and a half from us) for smallish quantities of organically raised local meat.
The price I set on my CL ad is $25-$35, with the buns being 4.5-5.5 pounds. Obviously this is a retail price - for anyone who sells wholesale, what do you think would be a fair price for organically fed rabbits that we don't have to process? It's hard to say for sure, but I think we will only have 10-15 extra rabbits each breeding cycle, but this should go a long way toward covering our feed costs!
Thanks in advance for any ideas on this, we're really excited, because this will be a LOT easier than selling one by one!