Bantambird's latest activity

This guy I'm watching.. next to the corner post. They'll be 5 wks Sunday. Kong x Joannie..he gettin' chunky 😃

I have seen a couple this year. Last year I followed several from the garden to between the house, bushes and steps in some leaf litter...

Nice currants. Here the bumblebees are after the gooseberries. The honeybees are working the plum, currant and serviceberries along...

I saw this and wanted to share, the bumblebees are out in force this spring.

Had a hen hatch 8 of eleven eggs. On the way to the pen she stopped and picked a fight with the dog through a chain link fence. I...

No pictures but first 3 hatches of the year. Monday was a chicken chick instead of the turkey eggs due next week. :barnie gave the...

Who would miss those tenderloins? sad.

Is this how people clean their wild birds? I always plucked https://www.onxmaps.com/hunt/blog/cleaning-wild-turkey-guide

I have skinned owl kills in the middle of winter looking for punctures, but I get the thigh medallions if ok.

Really wasteful and stupid. Plucking is the way to go. Doesn't matter if you eat the skin or not but it does make a huge difference in...

Butchered the red sweetgrass. My husband made his departure as stress free as possible, no pain. I used his Benchmade Meatcrafter...

Yeah I know what you mean. If a tom has a nasty attitude, is rough on the hens, or kills hens or young birds that warrants a trip to...

Yeah I just butchered a tom that was king last spring and was injured when he was deposed by a nephew. I should have butched him...

We will be butchering the red sweetgrass tom tomorrow. I don't need him for breeding, and I have too many toms. I raised him from a...

I think I hatched out a regal red poult? It came from my red turkeys, of which my male and 2/3 of my females are bb’, and it’s super...