Hello. New user here. I invested in a small meat herd for personal use and accidentally stumbled on a restaurant buyer. My main question is about a scale to determine the weight. Is there any particular type that would be recommended by current growers. I have found two different types at Walmart . Com website that look promising. One is a baby scale similar to what you would find in a doctors office and the other is a digital bathroom type scale. Any suggestions or advice is appreciated.
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Hello you are going to be trading or selling so you may need a butchhttps://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rc ... lpxN9lAers scale. I use a hand held Rapala fish scale.
We will be selling cleaned carcass. The chef asked what the approximate weight would be. I was thinking something like the babybscale would be ideal to use on processed rabbits as well as monitoring litter growth. The fishing scale would be a good idea to measure hanging weight similar to how larger livestock is weighed. Never thought of using one of those. Thanks for the idea.
https://www.harborfreight.com/70-lb-32-kg-digital-postal-scale-95069.html love mine. Put a box on it or a box and a bag, hit the tare button and it zeros. runs on a 9 volt battery to if you don't have power available.
You probably have already done this, but if you haven't, you need to check and make sure it's legal to sell to a restaurant if your meat is self processed. In Oklahoma, I can sell directly from my farm to the consumer but I can't sell to restaurants or stores unless the meat is processed in a fda inspected facility.
