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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: sarahdean_66 on September 26, 2014, 09:38:40 pm

Title: slaughter and processing chickens for sale on farm
Post by: sarahdean_66 on September 26, 2014, 09:38:40 pm

I can find info which says I can slaughter home grown poultry on site but dislocation or decapitation and sell it in small numbers but not if I can pluck and gut is first as well. Can anyone shed any more light on this please? Thanks

Title: Re: slaughter and processing chickens for sale on farm
Post by: benkt on September 26, 2014, 11:05:58 pm

Not a bad overview - you mat be able to ignore the organic details and the larger scale regulations. Small scale regulations are <10,000 birds which should cover most of us!
http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/download/technical-leaflets/processors/TL%20210%20Poultry%20Slaughter.pdf (http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/download/technical-leaflets/processors/TL%20210%20Poultry%20Slaughter.pdf)

Title: Re: slaughter and processing chickens for sale on farm
Post by: MKay on October 03, 2014, 07:20:45 pm

Check out the Meat Industry Guide on the FSA website. It covers any business that kills or packs meat