The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: JTFarms on September 29, 2015, 03:53:26 am
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Place a ad to sell some tups\ rams man answer ad said he was like to buy one ask if killing on my farm a problem I told he I had some nosey new neighbors on the hill behind my house you can hear real good up there what s going on on the farm and I did not have a place now setup to process animals at this time he respond ed back and said he could only buy if he could process the animal on my farm he could it in 20-30min I responded back to him I just hsd no place right now now to do a killing I feel as though this might be more about seeing what is on my farm for him than buying and sheep.Anybody had similar happenings to share advice on? Thanks James
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Certainly not a legal request. Only the owner can slaughter in his unapproved premises and then only for consumption by immediate family. Whatever the guy's intentions may or may not be, I'd be looking for a different customer.
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OH shops in a supermarket and friendly with some asians, as he buys cheap bread+veg he told them we had goats. They kept pestering him to sell them one, (cheap of course) but wanted to slaughter it here and leave all the 'bits', OH told them I'd sold all the ones to go (I hadn't but it stopped them), now he keeps being invited to their houses, I have a feeling they are softening him up for next year ??
Unless you're really desperate to sell I'd avoid this situation.
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crikey that sounds a bit dodgy
I think I would have said if he wanted it slaughtered I would take it to the abattoir and deliver it to him in a box but I wouldn't be letting anyone slaughter anything on my land!
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Very dodgy and illegal!
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Halal?
I get every other Pakistani / Muslim folk taxi driver etc that pulls up in the layby by my fields asking for "cheap meat my friend?" offering £30 for a ewe.... Always say they can come back and kill it tonight......... Always say, "youd be joining the poor girl if you do" and they bugger off, especially if I walk over to them.
Alot of them want either a bargain or, more commonly to slaugther the animal themselves as alot of muslims seem to have this burning desire to make sure the animal is slaughtered without stunning it first.
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Thanks to all your advice I told them that I had pen in front of place just some stock panels joined together these are out in the open for all passerbys on a state highway to see this is where I put my sale animals for customers who want to come and view what I have for sale at this time told them they could tell me when they was to come and take a look and I would have those rams in the pen for them to see and if they purchased them that they could NOT kill and animal in that pen and no one but my farm workers are allowed beyond that on my farm due to our biosecurity policy and if they buy it it leaves right then ALIVE have not heard anything since not to keen on people telling me how and what they want me to do when I'm the seller and they are the buyer you know it's like here is what I have for sale and how it will be done if you don't like it go somewhere else you know. By the way I had $150.00 on one ram and 75.00 on the other I've never sold one for less than 70.00 Dollars. James
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James, this would be highly questionable in the UK, but I don't know what the rules are for you in the USA, and they may well be different. All of the replies above need to be taken in a UK context, just sayin' :thumbsup:.
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Heck womble I've been here all of my life and I'm not sure of what the rules are either just don't like these kind of people answering my ads use to be the Mexican crowd but the govner ran most of them off now the middle East crowd is all that left around here it seems . James