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    Turkey Pictures please!!!

    Mine are BBB, I started them in a tractor and when they were big enough not to get taken by hawks I turned them out in the pasture next to the camels.
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    Anyone raise Emu's for meat?

    We have 45 acres here. The bees did very well, that's my husband's domain. He works real hard to keep those dang beetles at bay!
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    Anyone raise Emu's for meat?

    We used to raise all three ratites (the ostrich, emu and rhea) They all have a real good red meat and easy to cook and great to eat. We only had them behind regular horse fence with an electric wire on top. The emus were the nicest of all 3 to be around. And the least dangerous! The way he would...
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    turkey hen with dislocated leg

    Ouch!! I think I would go ahead and butcher her now and get her out of pain.
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    I hate it when people call Thanksgiving "turkey day"

    ...or what to call the most special day I EAT it! lol. I never used to refer to Thanksgiving as Turkey day before... but I think I will now that I will be eating our first home raised turkeys!
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    Why do you wait 3 - 5 days after you kill a turkey before you cook them?

    The ones I will be freezing, should I rest them in the fridge for 3 days before freezing or just go ahead and freeze?
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    Why do you wait 3 - 5 days after you kill a turkey before you cook them?

    Yep, rigor mortise had not even set in. The dark meat is tough. So, if I let it go though rigor mortise and become soft again, it will be more tender?
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    Why do you wait 3 - 5 days after you kill a turkey before you cook them?

    I am brand new to the turkey scene and just read this in another thread. Please explain this to me. We have successfully raised 13 BBB from mail order birds and one of them was recently real unsteady on his feet, (like leg problems because of his weight) so we went ahead and killed and dressed...
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    New turkey tractor!

    here's one more, I call it "turkeys, camels and a little dogs tail"!
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    New turkey tractor!

    My 3 week old BBB toms loving their new grass options! These are my first turkeys.
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    YO GEORGIANS! :)

    I'm still here... Cairo, GA
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    Starting to build a new coop

    if you really want to talk about zebras, we can, but I think we will hijack my already hijacked thread, No problem since the original is already a dud. ...how bout we move this to some other place and I will tell all how to be successful in the exotic animal business. My book will be out soon I...
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    Starting to build a new coop

    Five zebra. Here's the new colt born on labor day...
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    Starting to build a new coop

    Thanks...
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    Starting to build a new coop

    No riding the zebras!
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