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You'd be surprised at how much meat you'll yield off the legs, and precooking them in a low oven makes them easy to pick and preserve. Out of those 16 ducks I would expect at least 8-10 pounds of meat, assuming they're similar in size to the commercial ducks (also pekin) that I've used a lot in...

If it were me, I'd break them down first. During processing remove the breasts and legs. Reserve the bodies to make stock or demi glace. The breasts can be packaged and frozen as is and don't take up a ton of space. For the legs I would make confit to preserve it that way. Take a bunc of duck...

how did we get to raising "feral animals"? reel it in george. gestation is 3/3/3; being bred back the moment she farrows would be some feat, and probably not good for the sow. again if it takes you hundreds of thousands of acres to make a living raising animals on pasture you are doing something...

i was just returning the favor ;) i stated, quite clearly i thought, that i was not implying that pasture based systems could or should replace the CAFO's, but simply there is room for both.... i've seen enough farms now to realize it's possible to raise hundreds of pigs on less than 100...

"Dirt pasture" was it dirt or pasture? raising on dirt doesn't represent a pasture run operation, it's a step away from living on concrete. if you have to confine your sows to keep them from killing their piglets it sounds like you need smarter sows. save the best, eat the rest. now maybe you...

nowhere was it mentioned that animals that require care shouldn't receive it. that's ridiculous, and one of the many reasons that raising "certified organic" has it's drawbacks and can be misleading.

there are plenty of farms in this area that don't need to pen their hogs to prevent complications nor do they require the same level of treatment as those on factory farms. just because it doesn't fit your narrative of how animals should be raised doesn't render it blatantly false.

they're not all one and the same, and even the cleaner facilities need to administer far more antibiotics than a pasture based system where the animals are in open air and moved constantly to break the parasitic life cycles. "The smell wasn't nearly as bad as I imagined it would be." "treated...

You do realize that hogs raised in confinement are pumped full of antibiotics to keep them from getting sick due to the conditions in which they're kept right? They don't control parasites so much as they constantly treat for them. Commercial sows are penned up in farrowing crates because they...