Home Slaughter Laws

[MarkEinOz]

Careful Anniefish,

Your seriously in danger of using common sense and logic - a rare commodity these days!

I wholeheartedly agree with you!

That is why I really get excited about a new industry of mobile butchers who turn up to your property with a refrigerated trailer cool room - kill the beast/s, dressers them out and hangs them. They then leave and come back whenever your ageing requirement is met and then butcher the carcase for you, all on your own property. Pretty cool I think.

[GaryD]

Pretty cool I think.

Me too!

Gary

[MarkEinOz]

FYI,

A source of home slaughter info:

http://www.rurallaw.org.au/handbook/xml/ch04s09s10.php
Slaughtering livestock on the farm

The Meat Industry Act does not apply to animals slaughtered on a farm providing:

• it is for consumption on the farm and is not for sale
• it is not slaughtered for use in the preparation of food for sale
• it is not removed from the farm.

[MarkEinOz]

Also of interest,

http://www.rurallaw.org.au/handbook/xml/ch04s09s12.php
Farming consumable animals

Provisions for cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and horses are contained below. The Codes of Practice relating to the farming of buffalo, camels, emus ostrich, rabbits and deer are as follows:
Victorian Codes:

• Code of Accepted Practice for the Welfare of Deer
• Code of Practice for the Husbandry of Captive Emus

These codes are available from the DPI’s website www.dpi.vic.gov.au
Australian Model Codes of Practice for the Welfare of Animals:

• Farmed Buffalo
• Intensive Husbandry of Rabbits
• Husbandry of captive-Bred Emus
• The Camel
• Farming of Ostriches

These are available from the CSIRO 's website at www.publish.csiro.au