Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

[LindaB220]

We used our sawsall for something similar. We were butchering a heifer in the back yard and were not looking forward to sawing through the legs with a hacksaw like we do for deer, so one of the boys suggested the sawsall and our butchering skills went up several notches from that time forward!

Why in the world were they sawing a turkey in half?

A frozen turkey at that. Maybe they only wanted to eat one side.

 

[MargaretYakoda]

A frozen turkey at that. Maybe they only wanted to eat one side.

Well, it would thaw faster that way....

 

[RoseMarie1]

Well, it would thaw faster that way....

lol you guys are a hoot.

 

[Porkchopfat]

No sure if this is a good place to post this but...
We butchered 13 cx today and one had two hearts.
Anybody ever seen this. Kinda wierd ...

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

Well ChocolateMouse, I know who to call on if I need help.

Have you ever thought of Costa Rica? I have heard there are parts of it that is not over run with drug lords and is absolutely beautiful. Plus you would have all that coffee.....

Lisa

My brother has an 80 acre ministry village in Costa Rica--it only took him 3 years to develop the land. It is off the grid in the jungle/rain forest. He has a large community center, houses for 30 single mothers/children, a talipia farm, cattle, chickens, huge gardens. It is lovely--the village belongs to his ministry--he spent half of every year there getting it off the ground. After being there so much he learned that if he was to develop some property there for himself--he could be at risk for the government taking it. So, last year he bought 200 acres in Tennessee and just finished his home. Again, off the grid. He did not feel Costa Rica was safe for keeping his land.

 

[Beekissed]

No sure if this is a good place to post this but...
We butchered 13 cx today and one had two hearts.
Anybody ever seen this. Kinda wierd ...

Never seen anything like that and I've killed hundreds of chickens in my lifetime. Were they both attached to vessels? Did they both look the same when you cut into them?

Maybe this is the commercial poultry industry's answer to minimizing cardiac arrest in their birds...develop a bird with an extra heart!

 

[Porkchopfat]

Yep both were plumbed up. Have to keep an eye out next weekend when we finish up. Maybe I should have sent it back to pilgrims for r and d huh?

 

[TexasLisa]

My brother has an 80 acre ministry village in Costa Rica--it only took him 3 years to develop the land. It is off the grid in the jungle/rain forest. He has a large community center, houses for 30 single mothers/children, a talipia farm, cattle, chickens, huge gardens. It is lovely--the village belongs to his ministry--he spent half of every year there getting it off the ground. After being there so much he learned that if he was to develop some property there for himself--he could be at risk for the government taking it. So, last year he bought 200 acres in Tennessee and just finished his home. Again, off the grid. He did not feel Costa Rica was safe for keeping his land.

Wow, I did not know that. Your brother is one busy man! I wish him the best of luck!

Lisa

 

[Beekissed]

I'm pretty pleased to note the meaties I have this year are not small like those from the last batch. These are more like my very first set, with long bodies and long legs. They are growing so quickly that they look bald and that's even with constant foraging and only getting fed twice a day.

They are now sharing a feed trough with the layer flock...I built a much longer feeder and now they have a chance to feed alongside the big birds or wait a bit and eat when they are done. I am down to 7 birds from 10, with one chick dying a day or so after they arrived and two that met with grievous injuries that resulted in death or culling.

They are 4 wks old tomorrow and are sleeping on hay bales that make the walls of my chick brooder in the coop. They can now drink out of the communal watering pan without worrying about drowning and that's good, as I only had one nipple bucket available and the chicks in the brooder are using it.

 

[beverly evans]

No sure if this is a good place to post this but...
We butchered 13 cx today and one had two hearts.
Anybody ever seen this. Kinda wierd ...

Very weird! Yes, we talk a lot about CX's here. Not heard of it before, but this sort of mutation is a first for me. Welcome to the thread!