Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

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F1 Silkie cross cockerel

F1 Polish cross cockeral

We all have a lot to be thankful for so everyone have a wonderful and Happy Thanksgiving.
Have to go and water the birds it is 60 here today in MN and is supposed to be 28 tomorrow.
Good luck with the birds
Charlie

Thanks for the laughs!

 

[campinechickens]

One of my German New Hampshire cockerels took Reserve Champion in the American Class at the Tucson Poultry Pigeon and Fancy Fowl Club show this past weekend! This was only my second show. It was so nice to see him up there on Champion Row! Here is a photo:

One of my Mohawk Rhode Island Red cockerels beat 8 other RIR cockerels for Reserve Breed.
There were about 200 large fowl entered and about 1000 birds total in the show.

love him!!!

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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I must confess, I also love him and I don't even work with the breed or any similar colour!!!

Congratulations!!

 

[Arielle]

Happy THanksgiving to All !!!!


We are enjoying turkey from the grocery store as my children are boycotting homegrown birds at the moment.

 

[campinechickens]

I'm going to get free range turkeys for Thanksgiving from now on. Ever since I saw a video on Facebook showing how these commercial turkeys are raised and treated, it made me sick. How can you boycott homegrown turkeys? I imagine they taste worlds better. :/

 

[BarnGoddess01]

I'm going to get free range turkeys for Thanksgiving from now on. Ever since I saw a video on Facebook showing how these commercial turkeys are raised and treated, it made me sick. How can you boycott homegrown turkeys? I imagine they taste worlds better.

Regardless of whether they taste better or not, surely they are raised better??? (Maybe that is just naive me ... <sigh> and what I want to believe.)

 

[Lacy Blues]

Cut them up and put them on a plate. They'll never know.

 

[Arielle]

As my boys are 9 and 10, and spend much of their free time playing with the birds, as well as feeding and watering, etc., they are "attached " to the birds. THeir logic is not adult logic. LOL I hope to teach them the value of good food, both meat and vegetables.

Little do they know they have been eating our chicken despite protests because I just say I bought it at the gocery store and remind them of the packaged chicken I did buy. I mix the two sources. THat works! lol

 

[BarnGoddess01]

What we should all be boycotting ... how commercially raised birds are "raised" and treated. Anybody that has an issue with eating homegrown birds only need look at that for a minute or two.

(in my experience, "kids" get it much faster than adults.

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[Arielle]

WHile I understand the sentiments of anti-commerical production, we are already short on producing enough food for ourselves and the world. WOrld wide, meat protein is the most lacking in diets. When you look at the foods provided via food pantries, these are canned and dried goods and Not fresh meats and vegetables and fruits. THose people, usually families, most desperately in need are getting the poorest of foods, foods which are almost barren of nutrients.

Commerical facilites provide chicken at a very low cost, far lower than I can put chicken in the freezer. THe cost to produce a pound of meat is very efficient. I would love to see more people raising chicken and planting vegetable gardens, like the old Victory gardens, to supplement the food supply.

Sorry this is a subject dear to my heart as I have seen what children eat for snack and lunch in school, both provided by schools and from home.

Sorry Bob, for the off subject talk; I am all for heritage birds to fill our freezers!! Mine is full of 47 cckls and culled pullets. That will keep up in chicken for a short while--we eat a lot of chicken!! Yum- yum. ANd turkey all year long.