I know that if you have 50 or more birds you need to be DEFRA registered but I am curious to know if there is/are any type of licensing required if I am selling them as meat?
I have 15 Quail and 25 Chickens (some of which are table birds - i.e. Dorking). I often eat Quail and watch my breeding to keep gene pools as fresh as possible and buy in new bloodlines every other year or two but it got me thinking about the chickens (which I hope to try for the first time this year) and if I were to have Quail and Chicken butchered ready for sale can I do this as per chicken sales, local domestic etc without licensing, food standards or if there is someone that would want oversight of my activities to ensure welfare standards, health hygiene standards etc etc?
Also does anyone know if I can get chickens slaughtered and packaged by commercial/approved slaughterhouses on a small scale and roughly what the cost would be?