Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

I always wonder why folks want to interfere with nature, as in that second vid.  Leave the poor thing alone and let it eat, for pete's sake!  It's one thing if it's eating your livestock, quite another when it's eating natural prey.  I've seen people try to get baby rabbits or birds away from cats and it always mystifies me...that's normal, natural and part of the whole food chain.  How would they like it if someone tried to snatch a piece of pizza out of their hands? :p

So true! lol I sure could handle some fried squirrel, buscuits and gravy this morning. I might get in good graces with my mother if I make that happen sometime soon. lol
 
Hey Bee, have you ever made deer sausage? I've got some ground deer I need to do something with. I suppose with this internet age I can find some sort of recipe for it, maybe.
 
I've never made it but I've always wanted to make some hard sausage of it...tasted some at a Farmer's Market once and it was killer. 

Do you mean "summer sausage"? That stuff is good! Summer sausage, cheese and crackers - YUM! I am wanting to make regular old breakfast sausage and some summer sausage wouldn't be bad either now that you mention it.

I wonder how some old tough chickens would be ground up or made into chicken sausage? Oh the ideas... :)
 
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The only recipes I have seen shows mixing pork sausage in with it. Now, to me, that's defeating the purpose of making sausage from lean meats but I guess it's hard to have a sausage without some fats. That's sort of why I would like the hard sausage or as some call it, deer salami. We've got a fresh deer to process too, but most of it is going in the jar. We expect the electric to be off for extended periods this winter so we aren't trusting anything to the freezer this year....I lost a good amount of my CX that I raised last year to that little episode and that's not going to happen to me again.
 
Do you mean "summer sausage"? That stuff is good! Summer sausage, cheese and crackers - YUM! I am wanting to make regular old breakfast sausage and some summer sausage wouldn't be bad either now that you mention it.

I wonder how some old tough chickens would be ground up or made into chicken sausage? Oh the ideas...
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Hard sausage and summer sausage is the same thing.
 
Bee-- DH always resuces the mice from the cats, me? I walk in the house so I can't see what is happening. He is also one to stop to help a turtle cross the road, or a rodent stuck at a tall curb. He worked on a rodent project and knows how to grab and toss quick with out getting bitten. Kind of sweet of him, but he is useless when I need to process. He will pitch in once the body is out of the water and on the table.

We have a lot of wild animals here. We don't kill any of them but prefer to lock up the birds, or use other deterents. Live and let live.WE get excited to see a coyote. have seen more ths lat year than in past years-- they must be passing the word that we have free food!! lol
 
Bee-- DH always resuces the mice from the cats, me? I walk in the house so I can't see what is happening. He is also one to stop to help a turtle cross the road, or a rodent stuck at a tall curb. He worked on a rodent project and knows how to grab and toss quick with out getting bitten. Kind of sweet of him, but he is useless when I need to process. He will pitch in once the body is out of the water and on the table.

We have a lot of wild animals here. We don't kill any of them but prefer to lock up the birds, or use other deterents. Live and let live.WE get excited to see a coyote. have seen more ths lat year than in past years-- they must be passing the word that we have free food!! lol

That's why I have Jake...if he kills the occasional possum and coon, I don't care, and his presence keeps me from having to kill larger preds. I've kind of always wanted to see a hawk get a bird, though I'd never want it to happen to one of my chickens but the bigger preds always fascinate me...and hawks are just beautiful! I've never seen a coyote in my life, though there is a pack of them that live locally and howl all around our clearing on some wonderful nights. Jake and I howl back at them....we always win.
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I often wonder what the 'yotes think about the kind of howl I put out..maybe they think I'm something big and bad?

The neighbor saw one of them chasing a deer and fawn this spring and one of our fawns was killed by the pack nearby...Jake raided their cache and ate what was left. He's pretty much like a wild dog in the way he forages around and I like that about him. My chickens are more at risk to the grey fox that swings by here on his patrol of territory...he is very, very fast and could snatch one of the chooks like lightning if he so chose but he's pretty wary of Jake, of which I'm glad.

The local black bears don't hit our place either and I can only guess it's because of Jake. Right now we have the remains of 4 different deer scattered all over this place and gut piles of the same just up the hill from our meadow, plus two of the only apple trees around, and we haven't had any raids on the clearing. Jake is kept pretty busy all night, guarding all his deer tasties, but no confrontations have been noted.
 
The only recipes I have seen shows mixing pork sausage in with it.  Now, to me, that's defeating the purpose of making sausage from lean meats but I guess it's hard to have a sausage without some fats.  That's sort of why I would like the hard sausage or as some call it, deer salami.  We've got a fresh deer to process too, but most of it is going in the jar.  We expect the electric to be off for extended periods this winter so we aren't trusting anything to the freezer this year....I lost a good amount of my CX that I raised last year to that little episode and that's not going to happen to me again. 

Yep, ground deer is so lean that it just crumbles and falls apart when you cook it but adding fattier meat of some kind like pork or beef keeps it from doing that. I'm really not crazy about ground deer but I have some I need to do something with. Sausage sounds like a real good solution.

Power outages are not good for freezer storage most of all in my opinion! I think we would all be better off if we did things like the old folks did. Years ago most houses around here had a smoke house. I have bought two elderly folks old canning jars. My family thinks I am just sooo crazy [rolling eyes] BUT they will be the first to want in on some canned food.

I've been mowing up leaves and got dust and trash from in my ears to between my toes! lol They are also picking the soybeans so my alergies ought to be doing double time by bedtime! LOL Oh yes Ms Bee, the birdies are getting ALLLL those leaves. Hope they don't have alergies too. hahaha

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I bet that rig cost more than this house and 100 acres! Dust is flying around here today!
 

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