I started raising my own turkey's couple years ago and one my coworkers was interested so I gave him one. ..he's been my best advertisement and last year another coworker ordered one. Now this year I have 13 coworkers wanting turkey's and a few are even wking to come up and learn how to process...
Thank you both and Arielle .. :-) I have septic tank so I have to be very careful how much bleach I use. I don't use anti bacterial stuff because of that. Dawn is the detergent I use since it safe for septics
It's also nice to know that since im the one handling my food I know where it's been and and clean/healthy person is handling my food.
My job causes me to rethink eating out sometimes when people come in with illnesses and then you find out they work in the food industry
Here ! Here! :-) when I ate my turkey last year I swore I would never buy another store bought turkey again, if I could help it! So i plan to raise my own turkeys every year and since it's easier to raise several than just 1 or 2 I figure I'll donate a few to local shelters.
yup...I try to ignore it...but sometimes gets me mad. At least my birds are happy healthy and treated well before they are "AX'd" cant' say the same for commercial birds or for people, for that matter...LOL
Darn I was trying to capture the quote you responded to...because it is true. Many people have told me they prefer to buy their chicken in the store. Many have given me SH** for raising chickens and turkeys and killing them for food. Usually the guilt trip..."how do you not get attached?" or...