Re: Unable to eat homegrown animals
Posted by: kmat <kmat@...>
Well our family just did a butchering day with 35 "meat" chicken birds last
week....our freezer is FULL (along w/beef and vension).
We had a butcher friend come for the day and we were done in four hours
(then I spent the evening packaging it accordingly).
Our 13 yo son caught about 10 birds at a time and caged them, then killed
them and brought them to us ready to dunk and pluck!
He didn't have a hard time (this is his third year of killing them for us)
and we ALL enjoy the homegrown chicken in the winter!
The "meat" birds don't seem to have a personality like our hens, which our
kids have all named...so, it might be difficult to try and
stew our hens some day....one of them might say, "is this Friendly, or
Falcon?"
We had seven ducklings hatch a few weeks back (last weekend one of the goats
stepped on one of the little ones neck and slit it - so now
we are down to six)....our kids do not want us to eat our ducks, which I
don't know if I could, they are much more of a pet than our "meat"
birds were, and so fun to watch, and I don't know how to cook duck either!
I do have a friend who has cooked duck (muscovy) for us, and
it was good, I wonder how our Pekin would taste? Anyone out there cook
duck?
Pam
in MN