Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

[Tomtommom]

The Rabbit stays as long as I do! I agree with everything you say...'Great Minds'...

Another tidbit...I have already mentioned that I feed my birds cooked green tripe...but in the past few months, I've been grinding it and feeding it raw. Less work, just mix it in with the rest of the mess. Each dog gets about a 1 pound of green tripe daily as well.

Here's the biggie...I also 'save' and have saved the contents of the stomachs. I freeze this awful mess in 5 gallon buckets and try to dump one per week into the compost pile. To the chickens, it's like some kind of narcotic and they keep at it 'til it's gone...then they scratch and dig around where it was.

Certainly it's labor intensive but it costs nothing more than begging buckets from contractors I know.

Darn, another EDIT: Dragon Lady....I used to buy beef tongue and freeze it to take on a circuit for dog feed...raw. They loved it. I also par-boiled a few tongues, microwaved them for a few minutes...cut into one inch pieces...it made the absolute best bait imaginable and It is almost indestructible. At that time, they cost .25 cents per pound...Oh...before microwaving, I marinated them in garlic powder, oregano and soy sauce, with just a bit of Old Bay..LOLOLOL

That's too funny. In Europe they sell the tripe in plastic containers, for dogs. I can tell you, it's about the same price as a can of Alpo. Never thought to get it from the source. I just remember that stuff stinking to high heavens.

And beef tongue (and brain.. until mad cow disease) is a fancy delicacy

My younger brother went to culinary school and they had to try everything they cooked, including beef tongue.

Ofcourse, horse is a fairly common meat in the grocery stores. Smoked and sliced thin as a deli-meat or made into sausage. And in Scotland they like the whole haggis thing.. and well, there's pate and liverwurst. In the US offal is just not that well received, unless it's disguised as a hot dog.

The differences between continents... it amazes.

 

[hellbender]

That's too funny. In Europe they sell the tripe in plastic containers, for dogs. I can tell you, it's about the same price as a can of Alpo. Never thought to get it from the source. I just remember that stuff stinking to high heavens.

And beef tongue (and brain.. until mad cow disease) is a fancy delicacy

My younger brother went to culinary school and they had to try everything they cooked, including beef tongue.

Ofcourse, horse is a fairly common meat in the grocery stores. Smoked and sliced thin as a deli-meat or made into sausage. And in Scotland they like the whole haggis thing.. and well, there's pate and liverwurst. In the US offal is just not that well received, unless it's disguised as a hot dog.

The differences between continents... it amazes.

So different yet so much the same. Regardless of where we're born, we all have to work with what we have. I have eaten horse meat and enjoyed it but it can in no way compare to a good grass-fed beef. But if I want or need protein and horse meat is available and beef is not....too bad for the horse.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That's too funny. In Europe they sell the tripe in plastic containers, for dogs. I can tell you, it's about the same price as a can of Alpo. Never thought to get it from the source. I just remember that stuff stinking to high heavens.

And beef tongue (and brain.. until mad cow disease) is a fancy delicacy

My younger brother went to culinary school and they had to try everything they cooked, including beef tongue.

Ofcourse, horse is a fairly common meat in the grocery stores. Smoked and sliced thin as a deli-meat or made into sausage. And in Scotland they like the whole haggis thing.. and well, there's pate and liverwurst. In the US offal is just not that well received, unless it's disguised as a hot dog.

The differences between continents... it amazes.

I've liked beef tongue since I was a kid.
For some strange reason, brains are about the only thing I haven't brought myself to eat. Perhaps it was the story a Vietnamese friend told about how monkey brains were eaten for special events. They would tie the live monkey's head to a hole in the table, use a machete to whack the top off and everyone would take a spoon and eat the live brains.
I envisioned the whole head of the monkey sticking out the top and him freaking out as they swung the machete. Apparently, only the top of the skull sticks through the hole. It still turned me off a might.

 

[hellbender]

I've liked beef tongue since I was a kid.
For some strange reason, brains are about the only thing I haven't brought myself to eat. Perhaps it was the story a Vietnamese friend told about how monkey brains were eaten for special events. They would tie the live monkey's head to a hole in the table, use a machete to whack the top off and everyone would take a spoon and eat the live brains.
I envisioned the whole head of the monkey sticking out the top and him freaking out as they swung the machete. Apparently, only the top of the skull sticks through the hole. It still turned me off a might.

I too love beef tongue....But the only brains I can deal with is from squirrels...we use pretty much the WHOLE squirrel.

The heads are a bit tedious to clean but as a kid and even now, both i and Jason love to suck the brains from the eye

sockets. It takes about 5 good Grays to make a meal for us with white gravy and cat-head buttermilk biscuits....

The chickens lose here..there are never any leftovers...

 

[Wisher1000]

Quite have been hatching Blk Orps and noticing that the chicks have varying degrees of pink on their toes, feet, and rarely, legs. Is this like the white fuzz and will disappear as they mature? I am not "breeding" these birds (yet) but just hatching and selling the chicks. They are slate legged birds, but I see no sign of pink on the parent stock. The adults have good color in their legs.

 

[Lacy Blues]

But if I want or need protein and horse meat is available and beef is not....too bad for the horse.

I've liked beef tongue since I was a kid.
For some strange reason, brains are about the only thing I haven't brought myself to eat. Perhaps it was the story a Vietnamese friend told about how monkey brains were eaten for special events. They would tie the live monkey's head to a hole in the table, use a machete to whack the top off and everyone would take a spoon and eat the live brains.
I envisioned the whole head of the monkey sticking out the top and him freaking out as they swung the machete. Apparently, only the top of the skull sticks through the hole. It still turned me off a might.

The heads are a bit tedious to clean but as a kid and even now, both i and Jason love to suck the brains from the eye

sockets.

Quite have been hatching Blk Orps and noticing that the chicks have varying degrees of pink on their toes, feet, and rarely, legs. Is this like the white fuzz and will disappear as they mature? I am not "breeding" these birds (yet) but just hatching and selling the chicks. They are slate legged birds, but I see no sign of pink on the parent stock. The adults have good color in their legs.

Yep, the pink will go away. I don't breed orps but I do have the slate legged Andalusian and often the chicks have pink toes but that goes away.

 

[hellbender]

Lacy Blues...I can understand why you would feel

about eating any part of any rodent but...if **it hits the fan, you and many others will soon be out in the City Parks and common wood lots, looking for ny thing form fox squirrels to chipmunks!

 

[Tomtommom]

All the black chick I've had with light toes ended up with fully dark legs. It'll go away.

Food is all what you're used to and how desperate you are. I ate some things as a kid that most others would find revolting (I -love- smoked eel... blood sausage.. liverwurst. Nummy, num, num), but on the same note, I don't think I could eat chitlins if you told me what it was. Or brain.

 

[hellbender]

All the black chick I've had with light toes ended up with fully dark legs. It'll go away.

Food is all what you're used to and how desperate you are. I ate some things as a kid that most others would find revolting (I -love- smoked eel... blood sausage.. liverwurst. Nummy, num, num), but on the same note, I don't think I could eat chitlins if you told me what it was. Or brain.

I love fresh eel,blood sausage and liverwurst! about every 3 months or so, I splurge and place a large order from Fadely's Fish market in Baltimore's Lexington market.

 

[crazyhen]

I have eaten squirrel and been glad to get it. I have eaten hog brains scrabbled up into eggs that was good at the time too. As they say when you get hungry you eat what ever is available and like it. Most foods once cooked are eatable with enough seasoning. Chicken was always great. We lived out of the ocean and the tributaries a lot when I was young. Good eating then. Not much if any pollution from man. The flounders Dad got when Striking( fishing at night with a lantern) were hugh. That's the way it was done. We ate lots of pork too. When (push comes to shove) you can eat most anything and live.