Wanted. Dead Or Alive?
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 11:00 am
you can sell eggs from farmgate. no advertising except a sign at the end of your lane (and check and make sure you don't need a permit for a sign from your municipality...most don't for farms). if you process without a form 300 then they are for personal use only, and cannot leave your property. you can eat them though. you need the form 300 for meat birds to sell, but you can sell up to 300 meat birds (or any birds processed for meat like cull cockerels etc) but you CAN sell these birds. most processors now demand a form 300-even if you are just doing cull birds for home use at least in my area.
My farmgate folks know that if anyone complains publicly about eggs and not to me first wrecks it for everyone. i would rather someone talk to me first, if they get blood spots or something, and i make sure they all know that these are not candled....so blood and meat spots are a reality....they can happen. i find that people really do want farm eggs, and i only had one lady that was a little put off by a blood spot once, and we worked it out, and she is better off buying the store eggs, even though she said they don't taste as good, she really cannot handle a tiny blood spot (but she also faints with papercuts, so i can understand). i had thought about getting my form 300 for extra cockerels and stuff, but then i don't sell my chickens for food, i eat them here...i have the freezer space....
My farmgate folks know that if anyone complains publicly about eggs and not to me first wrecks it for everyone. i would rather someone talk to me first, if they get blood spots or something, and i make sure they all know that these are not candled....so blood and meat spots are a reality....they can happen. i find that people really do want farm eggs, and i only had one lady that was a little put off by a blood spot once, and we worked it out, and she is better off buying the store eggs, even though she said they don't taste as good, she really cannot handle a tiny blood spot (but she also faints with papercuts, so i can understand). i had thought about getting my form 300 for extra cockerels and stuff, but then i don't sell my chickens for food, i eat them here...i have the freezer space....