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Update: a little late but in case anyone else comes across this thread... We contacted our hatchery and were told that we were not the only ones with this issue. several others had the same issue. They think that something was wrong with one of their incubators that led to the issue. They...

I wouldn't think so, we clean the brooder out immediately every batch. I did have 16 egg laying chicks in there earlier in the year until they were big enough to move to the big coop. It was cleaned out afterwards none of those chicks had any issues, all grew healthy and are doing fine out with...

I had wondered this as well, but considering so many use plastic pools, Rubbermaid containers, etc as makeshift brooders that I didn't think that would be an issue. Possible though! We removed the pools today so we will see if it continues. Our waterers are old but we do clean them. I'll take a...

We raise Cornish Cross every year for 4 years, in batches of at least 100 twice a year. We picked up our chicks from the hatchery on 5/17/23, today is 5/20/23 and we have lost close to 15 so far. No idea what's going on and we have never lost this many so early. In fact we normally don't even...

We may just do that!

I will inquire about the product liability policy. Thanks! One of the agencies that was sure he could find something to cover us did say that it might end up costing more than we are profiting at the moment. In which case we would have to end the chicken side of things and go another meat route...

That may be a possibility we have to look into! We do want to incorporate other meat types in the future (pigs in the spring!) but we did so well this year with the chickens that I would love to keep it going somehow! I'd love to keep it by the book, but it is almost like they want to make it...

yes, one day we would like to butcher our own, but that is down the road as my husband still has a full time job and we would need to build a facility that followed all the butchering rules. Our mobile butcher has been doing this for quite some time and has a really interesting set up!

Hello, Wondering if anyone has had this problem and if so, how they solved it. We bought a 12 acre farm property in Pennsylvania and we are starting a business raising broilers on the property in chicken tractors in our pasture. We are very small scale at the moment with only 3 chicken tractors...

We were told by state farm it is the salmonella risk. That someone would get sick from our birds. I'm not sure how to get around that. We process under the PA state processing exemption which is 1000 birds or less annually and our butcher is registered with the PA dept of agriculture and our...

HA! I thought the same, but we are getting the same from every insurance agent we talk to!

We do have a legally taxable business. We were told that even if we got separate business insurance they still would not cover our home because the chickens were sold from the same property. We would have to subdivide the property to do this and we are not willing to do that at this time. Its...

Yes! Hoping to connect with others on this venture of ours!

This doesn't really work for us as per the laws we have to sell the birds while they are alive. We are not allowed to sell them after they are butchered. Although, it may be possible to sell them before butcher and deliver them afterward at a farmers market. However, that would require more than...

I will contact the extension office, we have been in touch with them quite a bit for the business side of things but we haven't directly asked about the insurance information. I will post in those threads as well, I didn't realize there was a states thread. Thank you!