18 month old turkey

[fowlangel52]

I Got Some Spannish Black Turkeys Last June And This Year I Hatched Out 20 Poults

So I Was Wondering Should We Butcher The Older Turkeys At Thanksgiving And Raise

The New Poults Cause They Will Be Laying In The Spring Next Year

 

[KOTurkeyRanch]

Id say eat the new poults. The younger ones will taste better. The old ones wont be as good, but still, they would be good. Its all up to you though.

 

[OmaBird]

The best turkey I ever ate was a 18 month old. It seem on the heritage turkeys it takes a while to develop good juicy fat. Like it is marbled in fat. To me this turkey was better than any prime rib and tasted simular. Was like butter to cut.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Older birds we skin them and cut them up. It will give you 2 nice sized breast fillets. Then we seperate the leg 1/4's and debone the thighs ( the thighs you can cook as is or they make great sausage) The drumsticks and wings we put in a pressure cooker - 10 minutes at 15 pounds and it's falling off the bone. You can use that meat in all kinds of dishes.

Steve

 

[OmaBird]

Since you want this for Thankgiving here is a few recipes that I can highly recomend. I love turkey and I love to cook. Here is a Good Eats/Alton Brown recipe for brined turkey. It is one of the easiest tasty brined turkey that I have made. It has 2,806 that reviewed and gave it 5 stars. The second recipe has alot more ingredience but also good.

The recipe http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/good-eats-roast-turkey-recipe/index.html


http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/brined-herb-roasted-turkey-recipe/index.html

If anyone want some of my favorite recipes just ask. I have all types including tried and true fried turkey.