After speaking to the current LL of a prospect, I realized that I don't have anything in my lease regarding the butchering and hanging of small game in the basement. Do you? Brad20K, I'm especially interested in your response. :)

The past president of our assoc recently had 2 middle eastern tenants prepare to butcher sheep at his unit. He took them to his garage so they could do it.

Im assuming they game birds they are cleaning? I personally wouldn't worry about this as long as it was cleaned up. Kind of along the same lines as cleaning fish that they caught.

Hhehehehe reminds me of a house that was going thru foreclosure for years back in 2009 and the previous owners left a goat caucus dangling from the top window lead up to the attic.

Nothing in my lease forbids dressing game in the unit.

I had a tenant who raised rabbits, chickens and other small livestock. (No pigs, not goats, no sheep.) I just assumed that he would slaughter and dress the animals he was selling as well as the ones he was eating. I do not know if he was doing it indoors or outside, but his wife kept the home spotless, and as long as he cleaned up, both inside and outside, I was fine with it.

I am not a vegetarian, and meat comes off of animals.

I also raise and butcher animals at my house. My old electrician and I skinned and quartered a deer in the driveway of one of the houses. Ladder racks on a work van double as good hoists.

I'd probably just fall back on a general cleanliness clause for the butchering of game animals if it becomes a problem and fall back to pet clauses on animals raised for meat.

Yes, I would consider it more common sense. Or not something that is likely to happen.

Everyone I know does their butchering outdoors. At least until it is time to wrap.

Someone who knows what they're doing shouldn't have any problems. A local homesteader processed a sheep for me the other week ago. He killed it at his place; then put it in his truck and drove it over to another guy's place, where he could make use of a giant tripod-shaped hoist-and-gambrel used for deer/hogs/etc. It took less than an hour to turn it from a dead sheep into a skinned/cleaned carcass that now needed to hang for a few days until it was ready to be further processed.

I've got a tenant in a sfh who is an hunter. He does prep small game in the garage. When I was due to come for a scheduled maintenance visit, he warned me that he'd had a minor "spill" in the garage, for which he'd used some sort of absorbent material which needed to let it sit another 24 hours before removal.

Deanna of TX, Whose buns are you processing in the back yard?????

@Tom... mine. :)

I plan to get out of them sometime this year. DH was very kind and let me get it out of my system. It's about the only kind of livestock we can get away with in our town-- I would much prefer to have gone with chickens-and-eggs. :) But whereas I could (theoretically) have kept a dozen cooped chickens in my old metropolis (7 million in the greater area), I can't keep a single chicken in the city limits of my current rural town of 3,000. :)

Robin,

Hahahaha!

I DID have a problem years ago when Mexicans first started flooding into town. My residents worked at the meat packing plant a few blocks away and ran their own butcher biz for their friends in back yard. Thankfully it had a good privacy fence.

Neighbors told me after my crew moved out.

Another, Small house on a very busy corner Walgreens, Dairy Queen, Captain D’s on the other 3 corners). More Mexican meat packers. Chopped the head off a turkey and had it hanging feet up to drain from a tree limb in the yard. The wings had flopped down, about 6 foot wingspan, gently turning in the breeze like a giant feathered windchime!

I just HAPPENED to see it at the right time and got them to take it down.

I was Scoutmaster at the time and asked them to save some of the giant feathers for me. I used those feathers for several years.

Lease? Um...clean up the guts?