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    Turkey with strange dark bloody goop inside when harvested

    Well, based partly on feedback from here and partly on my best guess and partly on a desire not to throw out 40 lbs of meat, we ended up eating the bird. We've been eating turkey for the last week or so, we roasted the leg and thigh that weren't discolored, ground up the breasts, made soup from...
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    Turkey with strange dark bloody goop inside when harvested

    No odor at all, I got my nose right in there. We just ate soup from the carcass and the carcass meat and I'm not dead yet, so, so far so good. I finally decided to use the smell/visual/feel test and since in every way all the other parts smelled, looked and felt just like normal, I'm calling it...
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    Turkey with strange dark bloody goop inside when harvested

    As far as I can tell, the leg wasn't broken before I was butchering/cleaning. I don't remember what side he was laying on, and while much of the blood did seem to be outside the meat and I could clean it off, the thigh had some seriously dark parts and parts of the meat were infused with the...
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    Turkey with strange dark bloody goop inside when harvested

    I've been raising turkeys, ducks and chickens for a bunch of years and had just harvested a nice 40 lb white male turkey. The story was a bit strange, it had been the big bird in the flock, the other male was submissive and no problem, then I come out one day and this guy is laying on the ground...
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    Thermostat for little giant incubator

    I have a pretty basic little giant incubator, an 18" x 18" styrofoam box with the heating unit, a fan and the automatic egg turner. For the most part I've been pretty happy with it, but the one thing I would love is to have a thermostat control the temperature rather than me having to watch it...
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    Brief period of high heat

    I just started incubating a new batch of duck eggs and did the dumb thing of setting it all up with too little time to make sure the temperature was stable and just under 100 before taking off for six hours. When I came back, the temperature had gotten up to 106. So, what I'm wondering is, do I...
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