BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[ronott1]

Ah! that's the trick then. I always pictured pressure cooked food as being grey, and soggy.

This is a bread pudding cooked in a pressure cooker. The pudding is cooked in a souffle dish on a rack in the pressure cooker:

 

[Our Roost]

I purchased some of the first blue orp hatchery stock available for sale to the public. I have no idea how the hatchery acquired them but they have been some of the best hatchery stock I have ever owned. I am breeding them in the best way possible without any additional blood to rejuvenate them. My plan is to crossbreed them this spring. Will keep you posted on what shakes out.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Hey all, if anyone is interested in a thread for pure, hybrid or self sustaining meat birds I recently started one. Basically will be a data base of weights and ages for various projects. What people are working on and what has been and is being achieved with a common goal of improving current standard bred breeds to get back to utility and/or creation of productive meat hybrids of pure breeds and/or creation of sustainable meat (true dual purpose) line from hybrids whether a hybrid of pure parentage or commercial birds like Pioneer or Red Broilers etc.

It has a clearly different intent than this thread but similar aim to produce utility birds. I'll be using this thread as suggestion of posting for those that stray from the new threads aim.

Anyone interested give it a read over and I'm happy to take suggestions to clarify focus by private message.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...d-bred-dual-purpose-bird-thread#post_16492552

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I've never canned anything.....yet. I keep reading the posts here about canning chicken and want to give it a try, but I still have to buy all the equipment. (I'm a work in progress.)

My meat line is precisely what I want to get to work on. Since the weather's been cold, windy and rainy here the past few days I've been working out my breeding plans on spreadsheets, including photos, stats on growth rates, etc. I was hoping that would be enough to distract me from actually breaking out the incubator and setting up my breeding arrangement, but.....not quite. If it warms up at the end of this week I'm going to start culling my extra cockerels. I really want some babies.

Honey, you DON'T CAN?! We gotta fix that, stat. If you want, you can start with water bath canning for acidic stuff - making jam is like falling off a log. It can get you accustomed to the process before you add complexity of pressure canning (not that it's that complex). Strongly recommend the big Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving (very good to start with, and remains a good reference).

(I am a canning FIEND...)

I finally got a chance last night to handle my flock, check leg bands, assign more legbands to those that had lost theirs or hadn't earned one yet, check for winter bugs~none at all, measure abdominal and pelvic spacing, etc. Forgot to take my scale up and weigh them all but really only care about the weight of the breeders I've chosen and will check those later.

Was pleased to have one returning breeder and two new ones. Hormones be a risin', folks, and it won't be long until it's time to have chicks running the land again. Eggs will flow, feed consumption goes down, life is GOOD.

Weather was warm and balmy last night, with every star out...felt like spring but didn't smell like it, you know?

Named my two new breeders~Clairee and Truvy. Their mama, Beulah Mae, will be my only returning breeder from last year.

Y'all getting excited for spring?

I'm going to end up with 1000 chicks on 1 acre if you guys keep it up...

_ Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Hey all, if anyone is interested in a thread for pure, hybrid or self sustaining meat birds I recently started one. Basically will be a data base of weights and ages for various projects. What people are working on and what has been and is being achieved with a common goal of improving current standard bred breeds to get back to utility and/or creation of productive meat hybrids of pure breeds and/or creation of sustainable meat (true dual purpose) line from hybrids whether a hybrid of pure parentage or commercial birds like Pioneer or Red Broilers etc.

It has a clearly different intent than this thread but similar aim to produce utility birds. I'll be using this thread as suggestion of posting for those that stray from the new threads aim.

Anyone interested give it a read over and I'm happy to take suggestions to clarify focus by private message.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...d-bred-dual-purpose-bird-thread#post_16492552

I'll check it out - thanks!

- Ant Farm

 

[Mini Meat]

I used to use my pressure cooker often but stopped after reading my favorite dietary resource, Nourishing traditions.

I understand why they though the high heat non traditional cooking method might damage the nutrients in food, But my resent research on the inter-webs is telling me that that is just not so. That because of the short cooking times nutrition is actually well retained. This is very good news for me.

 

[cyborg]

The big advantage to canning (especially meat) is storing large quantities of food without refrigeration. Necessary if you don't have faith in electric cartels. The disadvantage is a large pantry....

 

[DesertChic]

You need to teach him chicken math. Am I correct that he said to hatch 80ish more chicks so you can pick the 12 that you need to cull?

LOL! I like the way you think!

 

[DesertChic]

I used to use my pressure cooker often but stopped after reading my favorite dietary resource, Nourishing traditions.

I understand why they though the high heat non traditional cooking method might damage the nutrients in food, But my resent research on the inter-webs is telling me that that is just not so. That because of the short cooking times nutrition is actually well retained. This is very good news for me.

Love that book! I bought it after reading Dr. Weston Price's research.

 

[DesertChic]

Honey, you DON'T CAN?! We gotta fix that, stat. If you want, you can start with water bath canning for acidic stuff - making jam is like falling off a log. It can get you accustomed to the process before you add complexity of pressure canning (not that it's that complex). Strongly recommend the big Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving (very good to start with, and remains a good reference).

(I am a canning FIEND...)


_ Ant Farm

LOL! I'm a busy gal! Seriously though, I have bought some books and indulged in a digital pressure cooker/canner but just haven't had much time to devote to it yet....especially once we decided to start on the aquaponics project. I also have a really nice food dehydrator I've yet to break out of the box. Ambition and interest are never my problem. Time and energy...those are my problems.

Oh...Just and FYI for anyone interested....Direct seeding works in aquaponics, but not for beans or peas. They turn to mush and grow mold. My cucumbers seeds, however, ALL sprouted and now I have to thin them out. I'm going to try direct seeding strawberries today.