Maybe it’s all the knives, or the blood. But there’s something a little eerie about a slaughterhouse on wheels.
If you raise chickens, or lamb, or hunt deer for food, you might need the service of a good roving butcher. Like Ray Garcia of Cabin View Farms in Littleton. Solo, he can process about 200 chickens a day in a home built rolling abattoir:
It’s a Wells Fargo Trailer. We have stainless steel tables, stainless steel sinks. If it wasn’t for a lot of the custom facilities throughout New Hampshire, a lot of people wouldn’t be raising things.
While building his own mobile butchery was Ray’s first step toward keeping things clean and safe, Ray wanted more assurance. So he went to the USDA:
When I brought my idea of a portable unit to the USDA the gentleman actually laughed for about 15 minutes...
Today, the USDA might actually want to promote this sort of operation, but for the time being, Ray’s a free range butcher for free range chickens.