A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Molpet]

How much meat can you get off one of them?

I thought about them too... but they say pigs are the 4th smartest animal... I have enough trouble with lopping off BBB heads

250-pound hog can yield 195 pounds https://www.grit.com/animals/livestock/pigs/eat-potbelly-pigs-zb0z1612

Different breeds too http://americanminipigassociation.com/mini-pig-breeds/pot-bellied-pig-2/

 

[duluthralphie]

I thought about them too... but they say pigs are the 4th smartest animal... I have enough trouble with lopping off BBB heads

250-pound hog can yield 195 pounds https://www.grit.com/animals/livestock/pigs/eat-potbelly-pigs-zb0z1612

Different breeds too http://americanminipigassociation.com/mini-pig-breeds/pot-bellied-pig-2/

I had no idea they got that big...

I just had a 254 pound pig butchered and I got 113 pounds of meat and lard back from the locker plant....I am thinking some of my meat supplemented their venison sausage making and meat market... I only got 9 pounds of fat back for lard,,,and 17 pounds of bacon.

I shall be moving on to another plant next time.

 

[rjohns39]

I'll debate between now and processing time, how much processing I want done. I used to buy whole bone-in loins from the Amish and it's a lot of work to break that down. But still thinking of having the processor chine the loins and break down to primals and return the Jowls, heart, liver and kidney fat as well as any bones.

 

[duluthralphie]

I'll debate between now and processing time, how much processing I want done. I used to buy whole bone-in loins from the Amish and it's a lot of work to break that down. But still thinking of having the processor chine the loins and break down to primals and return the Jowls, heart, liver and kidney fat as well as any bones.

The heads for head cheese?

 

[rjohns39]

The heads for head cheese?

good point.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Cold,rainy, wind blowing - oh heck, it's been like that almost all summer. lol

@JRNash believes he has almost all his building permits in order and may even have them in his hands by next week. Then he can start building his "ark". More birds (that he has never seen before) keep showing up, along with a pot-bellied pig. Now he has a pet "Bacon" to go with his pet eggs!

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Glad to hear things are slowly coming together for him! Apparently, he's an animal whisperer and they all know to come to him lol

 

[Bantambird]

Here's a video comparing this year's red bronze poults to Ablyn, and a look at the breast and tail feathers, and the head. Ablyn looks female so far?

 

[R2elk]

Here's a video comparing this year's red bronze poults to Ablyn, and a look at the breast and tail feathers, and the head. Ablyn looks female so far?

If the last one is "Ablyn", she is a hen. She has the light colored lower edges on her breast feathers that indicate a hen. The barring on her wings indicates to me that she does carry the Black Winged Bronze gene (b1).

 

[Bantambird]

If the last one is "Ablyn", she is a hen. She has the light colored lower edges on her breast feathers that indicate a hen. The barring on her wings indicates to me that she does carry the Black Winged Bronze gene (b1).

Yay! That means she can be a pet! Toms don't make the best lapper birds, on account of bulk and the raging hormones during breeding season.

 

[sfgwife]

@JRNash believes he has almost all his building permits in order and may even have them in his hands by next week. Then he can start building his "ark". More birds (that he has never seen before) keep showing up, along with a pot-bellied pig. Now he has a pet "Bacon" to go with his pet eggs!

This so makes my heart sing tonight!

Our oldest and dil signed for their first home yesterday. So today we moved them. Came home and put everyone to bed. Then took the misters truck and put in the barn cause sposed to rain and we brought home a couch they had borrow... only to see the plastic on my greenhouse has ripped from the wind today i guess. And my eyes got all leaky over it. ;(. I had just planted stuff this week for winter yummies. And i have three huge tropicals and five pineapple plants that had come in the house. I already had lots of maters on four plants in the ground in it. So uh yea my eyes leaked. Tonight is only sposed to get down to 45 so hopefully the maters will be ok just for tonight til we can fix it tomorrow. If not i did put four more maters in pots that i had rooted from cuttings from the ones i have in there already and those we brought in the house just in case.