BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[angry rooster]

Animals are made out of meat and meat is food. Everything has it's own way that it needs to be prepared. Some people talk about how bad bear is, the same people will go to a picnic and scarf down every last bit of bear I bring. Bear is good, if you know how to cut it.

I eat bobcat all the time. The best meat that there is, hands down. Don't know about domestics. but if I had to, I definitely would keep an open mind toward it. A friend's dad who grew up in the depression remembers eating skunk, as well as owl. Said the skunk meat was greasy, but edible. They had already gotten past the smell, they dug them out of the ground and skinned them anyway, the money for skunk pelts was one of the only sources of income they had. All these kids today whining about how hard they have it, and they don't know what hard times even look like. That is most of our problem, I think. Peoples minds open up when they stare at harsh reality long enough. Makes priorities change.

You sed it all
I'm going to have to try skunk now

 

[angry rooster]

I once had the honor or listening to an elderly lady tell stories of her father's life. I won't do the story I'm going to share any justice, but I'll give it a try. It was the early 1900's in Montana. It was winter. Her father was 8 years old and the oldest of many children. His father, her grandfather, had just died after being sick for several weeks. When they came home from the burial his mother, baby on her hip, put his father's rifle in his hands and said "You're the man of the family now. Go out and shoot something or we'll starve." And so he took the gun and set out into the snow to hunt game. He brought home a deer.

While I would never make a child shoulder the responsibility of feeding a family, I certainly want to make sure that mine are fully equipped to do so one day. The ability to cook and acquire food (not from a grocery store) are really, really basic skills that everybody should know. Food is so easily taken for granted nowadays but yet it's one of the few things in life we can't live without.

We live in a time where it's "hard" to cook food from ingredients purchased at the store. It's even harder to "man up" and accept the responsibility of providing food; real food that grows from the ground or is packaged only in fur, feathers, or scales; food that you grew and raised, harvested and slaughtered. It's difficult for many to understand nature's cycle of death and rebirth. It's even more difficult to truly understand that you must cut a life short, whether it be plant or animal, so that you might live another day and that you do so with every bite you take.

Not so long ago a whole roast chicken was considered a special dinner, recipes used small quantities of meat and/or offal, and animals were butchered to honor a guest or mark an important event. Now chicken is "cheap" and meat is the main course at every meal. 

Big supermarkets have separated the average person from where there food comes from and has made the lives of our animals cheap and not worthy of our respect
I honor the food I eat be it plant or animal both have to die for me and my family to live I put great value on food and even more on good food
I do not kill needlessly but I do kill my own food

 

[hellbender]

I've had all I can stand. There will be NO MORE nonsense like we have all tolerated for the past several days. I realized a certain person was quite young and tried to ignore most of the silliness..BUT it's clear that valued members of long standing are being forced to their medicine cabinets...so again...

NO more of this BS...

 

[neopolitancrazy]

You are certainly entitled to your point of view. I have mine and it differs a bit from some folks on this thread as well. However, I do not routinely post every thought that passes through my mind, and I do not make a post every single time that I do not agree with someone - both of which you keep doing. There are MANY times in life when it is better, and considered proper etiquette, to NOT mention that you do not agree with someone.

You are failing to grasp the concept that this thread is for people who wish to discuss the use of animals as FOOD. You have made it clear that you don't want to eat eggs or meat. We understand that and we don't have a problem with your viewpoint. The problem is that you have failed to master the social skills necessary to recognize that your posts have become tedious and annoying. This is a group of people that have specifically banded together on this thread to discuss poultry as food products. Most everyone on this thread is here because they do not wish to upset the majority of people who are pet chicken keepers, by discussing poultry as food on the various threads where the majority only wishes to discuss chickens as cute and fluffy beings. For you to continue your posts here, reminding everyone that you don't like what we do with our poultry, is bad manners.

Excellently stated!!!!!

 

[angry rooster]

Has anyone ever tryed the bresse Canadian chicken aperintly they have marbled meat like beef or pork
Still wating on eggs and that is another breed that the breeder that I am getting eggs from carrys them

 

[Mini Meat]

Has anyone ever tryed the bresse Canadian chicken aperintly they have marbled meat like beef or pork
Still wating on eggs and that is another breed that the breeder that I am getting eggs from carrys them

How funny, I was just going to ask if anyone had tried Bresse. I thought the were French though but maybe it's the French- Canadian connection?

 

[Beer can]

Has anyone ever tryed the bresse Canadian chicken aperintly they have marbled meat like beef or pork
Still wating on eggs and that is another breed that the breeder that I am getting eggs from carrys them

They're probably good, GreenFire says they're one of the best tasting, then they started selling
Barbezieux and say Bresse is typically poached, Barbezieux is a roasting chicken and the third best tasting chicken according to French chef's. I did the research on that French magazine GreenFire mentions to see what was #1 according to them, it was the Naked Neck.

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

I think Ron Ott had breese, but I do not know if he ever ate them. How about it Ron?
Nope, my bad, Ron had Pita Pintas.
Kurt

 

[bnjrob]

They're probably good, GreenFire says they're one of the best tasting, then they started selling
Barbezieux and say Bresse is typically poached, Barbezieux is a roasting chicken and the third best tasting chicken according to French chef's. I did the research on that French magazine GreenFire mentions to see what was #1 according to them, it was the Naked Neck.

You know, when chefs, especially French chefs, have a preference on something, I always wonder if it really tastes THAT good to the average person using readily available ingredients and preparation that does not take multiple people or many hours to make the dish. I'm more apt to rely on preference comments and recipes from a fund raiser cookbook where *Grandma* put in the recipe that everyone raves about at the church potluck.

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

While we are talking about all these fancy and new breeds from Europe. Have y'all noticed that they usually fade away in a couple of years and then we are back with our good old heritage US birds. The cost of hundreds of dollars for 1 chick or a pair that are probably brother and sister is just ridiculous. We have so many heritage breeds that need work and I just shake my head. As far as I am concerned it is not the chicken itself, it is the preparation, spices, and the cook that makes a great chicken dinner!
Kurt