Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[hellbender]

I still don't want to know about Christmas yet. Yeah, the Masai live off it. But what about blood sausage! Lots of cultures make it and it is tasty!

Absolutely correct beverly. But there are still a lot of people who will run, screaming from the area at the mention of feeding it to chickens, much less to humans.

 

[Triple Willow]

Absolutely correct beverly.  But there are still a lot of people who will run, screaming from the area at the mention of feeding it to chickens, much less to humans.

Sounds gross, looks gross and the thought is perdy gross but whatever floats one's boat. Can't be any nastier that eating their own doo doo. LOL

 

[Triple Willow]

At 22 weeks, they're not doing much 'fighting' unless they have game blood and from your post, they do not.  almost all healthy youngsters will 'spar', even the pullets but naturally, the cockerels will be a bit more showy about it.  And again, unless their 'perverted' acts begin to cause real damage, just ignore it.  With pullets/hens, NO generally does not really mean NO!    

I wouldn't worry too much about perversion until the cockerels begin treading each other...on a regular basis.   

This group isn't as bad as the group of Australorp roos I had back earlier. Two of them were vicious. lol I thought they were going to kill the other roos! I put them in the freezer at about 24 weeks. Then they stopped fighting... as far as I know. hahahaha

 

[Triple Willow]

I still don't want to know about Christmas yet.  Yeah, the Masai live off it.  But what about blood sausage!  Lots of cultures make it and it is tasty!

Ohhh Merry Christmas Bev, I insist! LOL I put up some lights today, LOVE the lights most of all.

 

[TexasLisa]

Edited: to say, when I deal with birds at breeding time, I I always wear light gloves and Safety Glasses...In fact, my regular glasses are designed as 'safety glasses' because I lost my left eye in Vietnam.

Hellbender, I am sorry for the loss of your eye. Thank you for your service for our great nation.

Lisa

 

[beverly evans]

I was PM'd a question...."how do I pressure-cook so much meat"...spent chickens, deer...etc.

My dad bought two 20 gal pressure cookers several years back. I thought he was crazy until I saw what he did with them....and I still use them for the same purposes, as posted above. Money well spent. I can not imagine how much money they have saved over the years.

Some people are afraid my large sized canners and won't come around when they are in use but I would be more fearful of the smaller, stove top models that most kitchens have. If they are properly maintained (gaskets/gauges) I really don't see any real danger in using any pressurized steam product....small or large. JMHO

I grew up with pressure cookers. My Dad tells this tale. He once invited a homeless man home to eat and had to leave to get one more thing for their dinner, telling the man not to touch the pressure cooker. Of course being exceptionally hungry he did not obey my father and had to open the cooker. My father returned home to find his stew on the ceiling and every place else and the poor man cowering in a corner saying "The **** thing blew up on me!"

 

[BCMaraniac]

I grew up with pressure cookers. My Dad tells this tale. He once invited a homeless man home to eat and had to leave to get one more thing for their dinner, telling the man not to touch the pressure cooker. Of course being exceptionally hungry he did not obey my father and had to open the cooker. My father returned home to find his stew on the ceiling and every place else and the poor man cowering in a corner saying "The **** thing blew up on me!"

My mother has a pressure cooker that she had used for as many years as I can remember. She would let me monitor it when we got older because I would watch over it like a hawk as she did, but she emphatically insisted that no one ever use it after she was gone for fear of it exploding. on someone not familiar with it. She made my brother promise that he would take a hammer to the gauge on the pressure cooker and smash it and the lid to render it unusable for any one else EVER. So after she died in 2008, he did as she requested.

 

[beverly evans]

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Jes and TW, Try the lazy lady's way. I save all pickle and olive leftover vinegar and put boiled eggs in the jars. Also eat the jarred or canned pickled beets and put eggs in that leftover juice as well. Not enough liquid? Add water and vinegar and taste. Add salt and sugar to taste. The manufacturers put cloves in theirs so add some too if you like. Just what I do and the longer you leave them the better they taste! : )

 

[Triple Willow]

Jes and TW,  Try the lazy lady's way.  I save all pickle and olive leftover vinegar and put boiled eggs in the jars. Also eat the jarred or canned pickled beets and put eggs in that leftover juice as well.  Not enough liquid?  Add water and vinegar and taste.  Add salt and sugar to taste.  The manufacturers put cloves in theirs so add some too if you like.  Just what I do and the longer you leave them the better they taste!   : )

Thanks for the tip Beverly, good one.

 

[beverly evans]

So, only posting here because I can't seem to find a relevant thread elsewhere, and I don't want my heiny handed to me by the Heritage group 'cause I'm thinking to do something obnoxious. By pure chance, have a silver Birchen Marans cockerel (feety tufts, hate em. Love the color) and a Lavendar Orp pullet. And some research shows that if I push it, I could end up with silver Birchen Orpingtons. No feety tufts; both nice meat birds. Not that I need a project. But I can't find anyone who wants either or both birds. So been toying with the idea, and eating them next year after a couple of generations thru. Am I insane? There's one guy in WA state that MIGHT not hand me my keister for just asking, and will PM him also... Heh.
-Aleta G.

Hey, They're your chickens, do whatever you want! And name the end result whatever you want. Unless you're showing them who cares?