Posts by Lute

GAK, I'm sorry KFacres! I've been away for a few days working a comic book convention. I'm still exhausted from it!    THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR POST. I'm savings this to my laptop.

I just have Pekins (excellent layers when the weather is warm, we haven't had them in the cold yet so I don't know). Excellent dual purpose duck.   I currently have about 8 together (plus one Cayuga duckling) and am hatching...

KFacres, no chance you want to PM me step-by-step directions on butchering a cow? I've been looking for How-To videos on Youtube and it's kinda difficult. How did you learn to do it?

If you lived closer I would gladly sell you one. But, alas, we're too far away. :(

Mine is getting there. I'll be culling the boy duck that snuck into the batch next weekend (he's related to the other girls and I don't want inbreeding).

Yep. They grow slowly until they're about 2 weeks or so and then BOOM. Overnight they've doubled in size!

What kind of ducklings?   I raise Pekins, which need less heat than the others (no idea why, they're just happier this way). I use a standard 100 W bulb.

Hatched 3 more pekin ducklings and picked up 2 Cayuga ducklings.

My boyfriend smoked Pork Belly last summer. It was cheaper to buy than Bacon had been and he really wanted Bacon. It was very simple. He just smoked it for about 8 hours in the smoker, sliced it with the meat slicer and froze what he...

We just acquired rabbits, have chickens and ducks.   In the future we'll have pigs and cows.