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Post by Wendy on May 10, 2015 11:25:39 GMT
You might think about raising your own chickens to eat. I made a post in the families board of how the US is going to open the doors for China to process the chickens raised in the USA!! I see my sales going up in the near future.
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Post by graywolf on May 10, 2015 13:27:29 GMT
I see on some frozen fish that it is caught/raised in the US and processed in China for sale here in US. How can it cost less to ship stuff back and forth like that?
We didn't buy the fish.
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Post by Mari-in-IN on May 10, 2015 14:54:38 GMT
You might think about raising your own chickens to eat. I made a post in the families board of how the US is going to open the doors for China to process the chickens raised in the USA!! I see my sales going up in the near future. Wendy, If you don't mind sharing-I am curious what you sell your broilers for...Set price each or by the pound? Thanks in advance, Mari
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Post by barefootfarmer on May 10, 2015 16:08:23 GMT
I always forget that not all homesteading types raise their own chickens. For lots of reasons, I'm sure. It just boggles my mind that we would send chicken back and forth across the ocean like that. Ick. I usually raise 100 broilers just for our family to use. When You think about it, that's 2 whole broilers a week. This year when I'm butchering I'm going to vacuum seal in bags with particular meals in mind rather than keeping them all as whole.
I also raise meat birds for our customers and I notice that whenever that kind of news goes live our sales jump up. Same thing happened when the pink slime issue came out a year or two ago.
And still, I can't get over sending our meat to CHINA for processing. Eeks, doesn't anyone who cares about the safety of our food supply feel just a little nervous about that?!
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Post by here to stay on May 10, 2015 16:21:26 GMT
I think it has been decades since the safety of citizens in the US has had even a small place in the government's or business consideration. So many completing agendas but that is not one of them. Unless it is an American company subject to regulation, which is to a large extent why businesses look to do stuff overseas and avoid the problems ans government shugs its collective shoulders, saying business is happy so what can we do.......
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Post by puddlejumper007 on May 10, 2015 16:31:09 GMT
anyone know which companies are doing that? so chickens sent over alive, arrive dead, two day old chickens process anyway, them greedy fat americans will not know the diffrence....yee gads....
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2015 16:45:00 GMT
Bad enough how they smell now. Add a few more days, NO. I can't even bring myself to eat chicken out, processed here, let alone somewhere with less oversight. Yuk....James
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Post by claytonpiano on May 10, 2015 17:15:13 GMT
Ugh!!!! So glad I raise my own birds. Wonder if that applies to turkey as well.
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Post by barefootfarmer on May 10, 2015 17:30:10 GMT
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Post by Wendy on May 10, 2015 17:53:55 GMT
Yes, they will actually be getting the chickens frozen, thaw them out, process them into soup, nuggets, etc. & then ship them back. The products will not have to be labeled where it was processed, so consumers will have no idea that it was processed in China.
This just seems totally wrong to me. I do not trust food from China after everything I have read.
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Post by Wendy on May 10, 2015 18:05:16 GMT
You might think about raising your own chickens to eat. I made a post in the families board of how the US is going to open the doors for China to process the chickens raised in the USA!! I see my sales going up in the near future. Wendy, If you don't mind sharing-I am curious what you sell your broilers for...Set price each or by the pound? Thanks in advance, Mari
Last year I charge $9 each. I think I will raise it to $10 this year because of feed prices. It is also quite labor intensive. I have thought of charging so much per pound, but I am too lazy to weigh them all. Mine probably average 5 lbs once processed so that's around $2 per pound. I have seen them advertised for way more than that. My biggest customers come from Indianapolis. Apparently, I am cheaper than anyone close because I am about an hour & a half drive from Indy. I will be doing around 30-35 ducks. I plan on charging $15 each for them. They are a little bit more work to pluck. I don't want to seem greedy & hopefully people won't think that. I just want to make a little money & my time is worth something. I plan on raising my egg prices from $2 to $3 per dozen. My chickens are free range now. They used to be penned all the time. They had an outside pen to go in, but now they range freely over the pasture.
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Post by graywolf on May 10, 2015 18:09:37 GMT
We like fish and have been avoiding the stuff raised and/or caught in China for years. So we always read the labels. The "US" frozen fish that is processed in China was in Walmart.
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Post by Mari-in-IN on May 10, 2015 18:39:32 GMT
Wendy, If you don't mind sharing-I am curious what you sell your broilers for...Set price each or by the pound? Thanks in advance, Mari
Last year I charge $9 each. I think I will raise it to $10 this year because of feed prices. It is also quite labor intensive. I have thought of charging so much per pound, but I am too lazy to weigh them all. Mine probably average 5 lbs once processed so that's around $2 per pound. I have seen them advertised for way more than that. My biggest customers come from Indianapolis. Apparently, I am cheaper than anyone close because I am about an hour & a half drive from Indy. I will be doing around 30-35 ducks. I plan on charging $15 each for them. They are a little bit more work to pluck. I don't want to seem greedy & hopefully people won't think that. I just want to make a little money & my time is worth something. I plan on raising my egg prices from $2 to $3 per dozen. My chickens are free range now. They used to be penned all the time. They had an outside pen to go in, but now they range freely over the pasture. Thank you for responding. Doesn't seem at all greedy, Wendy. Actually with the time, money, and especially since they are NOT coming from a factory farm, it seems quite reasonable. I've thought of raising broilers for us (we eat a lot of chicken), but I would have to sit down and do the math to see if it would be lucrative to try and sell them. I don't do my own processing so you are ahead of me there. I sell my eggs for $2.00-might go to $2.50 soon. That is so disturbing that the end products don't have to be labeled! Fortunately for us, we don't really eat much processed food at all (I'm very sensitive to msg and some preservatives)...When I first saw the thread-I thought they were taking them over to China to be butchered and then sent back...IF THAT WERE THE CASE-I'd somehow try to fit in raising broilers this year! I sure wish I lived closer to you-you would have a new customer!! Take Care!
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Post by barefootfarmer on May 10, 2015 19:21:23 GMT
I hate the no labeling part. I guess the country of origin is the USA and mum's the word on where it traveled before it came home again. Pretty sneaky. I really do feel grateful each day that I'm able to provide so much of my own food. Sometimes it's hard to remember that when I get caught up in the day to day grind. But at the end of the day, I'm thankful.
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Post by puddlejumper007 on May 10, 2015 22:09:40 GMT
so the fda has sold out the american people...they should have to eat what they think is safe for us..
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2015 12:49:57 GMT
Definitely definitely definitely agree with this post! Get babies, know EVERYTHING that goes into their beaks from day 1, know that they're not stuck full of meds, know that they're plump & healthy (not dying or already dead when processing day comes). It's an absolute no-brainer to raise and process your own birds if you have the capacity to make it happen (and it doesn't take a whole lot of space to do, especially small batches).
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Post by amylou on May 12, 2015 23:42:41 GMT
Wendy - Do you free range your broilers or do you have to keep them separate from your egg layers?
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Post by Wendy on May 13, 2015 1:39:40 GMT
I keep the broilers in chicken tractors & move them every 2 days & then every day when they are getting close to butcher size. So they are still getting grass & bugs & such, but are not mixing with the layers.
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Post by amylou on May 13, 2015 19:42:07 GMT
Thanks Wendy
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