excellent information, thank you!
When to butcher geese?
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- Mar 17, 2010
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What's the difference between buying one from the supermarket and eating the one you raised yourself? The ones at the supermarket (assuming you could find a goose there) were once alive and at a farm too. It's not like they magically appear at the store lol
Didn't you know??? Goose, like so many other meats, is manufactured in those little styrofoam packages!!!
We have 6 Toulouse geese, along w/ Muscovy ducks, Irish Dexter cattle, meat breed sheep, 200+ chix (Freedom Rangers & layers) & a couple useless horses that destroy as much pasture as they can. Then there's the egg stealing LGDs. We got one gosling last year, because the dog took all the eggs! If I were there, I could do something, but I'm not & my partner's don't know how to train a dog.
They believe in doing it all w/ loooooove. Nice people, but not dog trainers.
What's the difference between buying one from the supermarket and eating the one you raised yourself? The ones at the supermarket (assuming you could find a goose there) were once alive and at a farm too. It's not like they magically appear at the store lol
Didn't you know??? Goose, like so many other meats, is manufactured in those little styrofoam packages!!!
We have 6 Toulouse geese, along w/ Muscovy ducks, Irish Dexter cattle, meat breed sheep, 200+ chix (Freedom Rangers & layers) & a couple useless horses that destroy as much pasture as they can. Then there's the egg stealing LGDs. We got one gosling last year, because the dog took all the eggs! If I were there, I could do something, but I'm not & my partner's don't know how to train a dog.
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Wow, and here I thought animal meat came from animals lol!!!!
I had some Dexter ground beef and it was REALLY beefy tasting. I didn't really like it. Is that the normal taste? I think dexters are perfect little cows.
I had some Dexter ground beef and it was REALLY beefy tasting. I didn't really like it. Is that the normal taste? I think dexters are perfect little cows.
I've never seen goose at any of our supermarkets.....maybe it's a regional thing? If I wanted a goose to eat, I'd have to raise it myself. lol
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Was it home-processed, fresh from the farm? I find that home beef has a stronger taste and smell than what you buy at the store. I love the taste, but even after being in the freezer for months, that stuff thaws out smelling like a dead cow. I've never had dexter beef, ours is brahma.
I'll be watching this thread, as my husband is interested in getting some meat geese too, and we don't know much about geese. We plan to get a pair and raise their offspring to eat. All I know is that I don't want Chinese geese, I was attacked by those once as a kid and I'm still scared of them.
Was it home-processed, fresh from the farm? I find that home beef has a stronger taste and smell than what you buy at the store. I love the taste, but even after being in the freezer for months, that stuff thaws out smelling like a dead cow. I've never had dexter beef, ours is brahma.
I'll be watching this thread, as my husband is interested in getting some meat geese too, and we don't know much about geese. We plan to get a pair and raise their offspring to eat. All I know is that I don't want Chinese geese, I was attacked by those once as a kid and I'm still scared of them.
Yea, the cow was home raised on alfalfa and timothy grass I believe.
Ariel, I totally agree about the attacking geese. I raise Cotton Patch geese because they're not aggressive and they're (relatively) quieter.
And I've never seen goose at the supermarket either except in Europe.
Ariel, I totally agree about the attacking geese. I raise Cotton Patch geese because they're not aggressive and they're (relatively) quieter.
And I've never seen goose at the supermarket either except in Europe.
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Is that because of the pinfeathers growing in?
Is that because of the pinfeathers growing in?
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Is it just me, or does anyone find it hilarious that this little post script is added after a question about when to butcher the little cuties.
Does goose taste like duck? I don't like duck, so I've always wondered if it would be worth it to try goose or if I'd just be disappointed.
Wild goose , slow cooked on a rack in a covered roasting pan , tastes very much like a beef roast .
........ and yeah , I may be just in a sleepy/silly mood , but the mingling of
and
cracks me up .
Do you cook roast them upside down to let the fat render off? I've heard that otw the meat is very greasy. We're getting ready to harvest our geese this fall--they were supposed to be Toulouse (that's who was sitting, anyway), but 2 look like Emden and the other perhaps an Emden/Toulouse cross.
Is it just me, or does anyone find it hilarious that this little post script is added after a question about when to butcher the little cuties.
Does goose taste like duck? I don't like duck, so I've always wondered if it would be worth it to try goose or if I'd just be disappointed.
Wild goose , slow cooked on a rack in a covered roasting pan , tastes very much like a beef roast .
........ and yeah , I may be just in a sleepy/silly mood , but the mingling of
Do you cook roast them upside down to let the fat render off? I've heard that otw the meat is very greasy. We're getting ready to harvest our geese this fall--they were supposed to be Toulouse (that's who was sitting, anyway), but 2 look like Emden and the other perhaps an Emden/Toulouse cross.
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Lol this is exactly why I was searching....my gander was extremely rough with my daughter's favorite chicken, a sweet docile buff Orpington . I ran up and he still hung on! I had to pry his beak off her head.
Today's episode was the worst.
He may become Christmas dinner instead of his daughter......he will be a bit over a year and a half. I want to know if he will be tough, too tough to roast.
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