Farmfresh City Homesteader - the sound of falling oaks.

[Farmfresh]

Good night all.

 

[Farmfresh]

Well I am tired again!

 

[keljonma]

That's a lot of turkey, FF! Will you can, freeze or smoke them? One of my friends in Texas used to get a farm raised bird for Thanksgiving and smoke it; I think he used applewood, but I could be mistaken.

edited for typo

 

[Farmfresh]

He likes ... no loves.. them!

 

[jessejames]

how old are your turkeys when you process them?

 

[Farmfresh]

They have been on grass.

 

[punkin]

One of my favorite foods is deep fried turkey. Just can't get enough of it at Thanksgiving.

 

[Dace]

Someday I want to raise my own Thanksgiving Turkey! It sounds awesome and they seem to be interesting critters to raise

I am introducing the idea of animals for meat to my kids....they are pretty freaked out about the idea. But I keep telling them that I would rather eat the meat form an animal that lived a happy healthy life and was loved than one who was abused and pumped full of antibiotics just to keep it alive long enough to kill it.
It's gonna take a while

 

[punkin]

Someday I want to raise my own Thanksgiving Turkey! It sounds awesome and they seem to be interesting critters to raise

I am introducing the idea of animals for meat to my kids....they are pretty freaked out about the idea. But I keep telling them that I would rather eat the meat form an animal that lived a happy healthy life and was loved than one who was abused and pumped full of antibiotics just to keep it alive long enough to kill it.
It's gonna take a while

Maybe you can convince me too. Taking some little, cute, fuzzy-wuzzy, feathery, bright-eyed baby, looking at it every day, feeding it, nurturing it . . . and then, the horror.

 

[Dace]

Well now let me just clarify...I do not know how to dispatch and process a bird. I keep telling myself that is is not different that filleting a fish (in theory, not process) but seriously it would take a lot of mental and real preparation for me to have the guts to do that.

In the movie Food Inc they show Bee's boyfriend (stalking victim?) Joel Salatin and his crew doing some birds and it actually looked pretty easy. I think tht fact that I was not mortified is a tiny step in the right direction.