Selling Rabbits

[nighthunter 4]

Does any one know if it is OK to sell wild rabbits to eat?

I have Just been asked buy a local pub if I will sell them about 6 wild rabbits a week, As you can imagine this request went down very well with me.

Until someone said they thought there is something that says, With out complying to Food Hygiene Regulations, IE A Chiller Room, Correct prep facilities, packaging and transportation etc etc, We shouldn't do it! especially to Restaurants and pups.

Now! The Fridge, Kitchen, Some freezer bags,And the family pony Has been OK for years so did any thing change when I blinked

[Guest smashygadge]

Does any one know if it is OK to sell wild rabbits to eat?

I have Just been asked buy a local pub if I will sell them about 6 wild rabbits a week, As you can imagine this request went down very well with me.

Until someone said they thought there is something that says, With out complying to Food Hygiene Regulations, IE A Chiller Room, Correct prep facilities, packaging and transportation etc etc, We shouldn't do it! especially to Restaurants and pups.

Now! The Fridge, Kitchen, Some freezer bags,And the family pony Has been OK for years so did any thing change when I blinked

 

 

lol yes you can sell rabbit

normally it would be onto a butcher who would then pass on .

but all a butcher asks is to gut them and thats it .

then i suppose the skinning and cleaning would be down to the person

preparing them good luck pound a piece

[craigyboy 1,274]

if someone wants to buy em then why not sell em

Edited October 28, 2008 by craigyboy

[T78 4]

i get £2 apiece! sell them to a bloke in my dads local who sells them on to individual people!

[ferret boy charlie 0]

some twat had ago at me becouse i sell on rabbits sayin how would i feel if i made someone ill

[COMPO 54]

an exception under the legislation regarding wild food is small amounts to local markets, you dont need all teh chillers etc... then!

 

i sell small amounts quiet regualry to local butchers (upto 40 a week at one!)

[Rabbithunter 456]

if the rabbits are going in via the 'back door'

 

Then the pub owner is not likely to grass you up for not comply-ing with food & hygeine regs. And if you get any bother, you just tell them you thought they were for the owner, and not his business

[Guest smashygadge]

i get £2 apiece! sell them to a bloke in my dads local who sells them on to individual people!

 

god ive just given 20 away today lol .

anyway i went to ask think toff for some permission she said

what you do with the rabbits i said i feed them to dogs .

and even she said pound a piece at local butchers lol

she new more than me.

ha and what do butchers sell at about 3 quid a lb

[stealthy1 3,964]

I sell mine and put money in a jam jar for vets bills and ammo!

[nighthunter 4]

an exception under the legislation regarding wild food is small amounts to local markets, you dont need all teh chillers etc... then!

 

i sell small amounts quiet regularly to local butchers (upto 40 a week at one!)

Thank you all for your help on this, I do sell to local people but it was just the fact it is a pub that got things going!!

[dogman89 0]

rabbit is expensive to buy in, i work in a butchers and i was looking through a catalogue and the rabbit wasnt cheap

[wild rover 548]

Does any one know if it is OK to sell wild rabbits to eat?

I have Just been asked buy a local pub if I will sell them about 6 wild rabbits a week, As you can imagine this request went down very well with me.

Until someone said they thought there is something that says, With out complying to Food Hygiene Regulations, IE A Chiller Room, Correct prep facilities, packaging and transportation etc etc, We shouldn't do it! especially to Restaurants and pups.

Now! The Fridge, Kitchen, Some freezer bags,And the family pony Has been OK for years so did any thing change when I blinked

 

Hi We have been selling ours for years, we skin, gut wrap in cling film and freeze, good healthy rabbits will sell, our customers include, hound trailers for hound food, pet food, people who eat them, I'm not to sure how you would stand if someone questioned, undeclared income.!!!!!!!!!! Beware of the jobs worth??

[thurso jack 3]

just make sure the rabbits are freshly caught and you wont have a problem

[victor 10]

it's illegal but private people dont mind you shouldnt either, but arfter my dog gets to a rabbit he cant help it but brusing them so yeah, got ferrets?

[Murph 30]

I've looked into this in the past with the environmental health dept and the situation is an odd one.

 

You can sell "small amounts" (not defined in the law) and you do not need any food prep areas , hand washing facilities, chillers, nothing. You can go to the toilet, gut the rabbits, skin them, have a fag outside and bag them up then take them down to the end user without washing your hands and you are covered under "the hunters exemption". However, if you sell small amounts to a merchant, you must have food prep areas, handling training etc as they are acting as a middle man and this removes your cover under the exemption.

 

If you are doing large quantities (again, not defined) you must go down the route of food prep areas etc.

 

I thought it was odd that even thought the rabbit ends up being eaten by someone either way, the small producer who is likely to be less strict on hygiene etc as they wouldn't be making a living from it has no restrictions, whereas, the large producer, who in theory would be careful with hygiene etc to protect their income has to jump through hoops. So if your pub gets their rabbits from a merchant, they should be produced in an approved facility, if they buy them from a local there are no restrictions on how they are processed. The punters get rabbit pie either way.

 

Edited to say- when I asked environmental health what a small quantity was, they didn't know and said "well how many are you wanting to do?" I said not many, maybe a few hundred a week and they thought that was a hell of a lot, they thought one bloke might kill and sell 2 or 3 rabbits a week so they definition of a small amount is really a grey area.

Edited October 29, 2008 by Murph