How is your flock today?

[Parront]

Ate my last "Freezer Camp Cockerel" this week. Crock pot was what it took, he was a little older, so not BBQ materiel but no pressure cooker required. I like them in the crock pot with rice and mushroom soup, they do not have as much fat as the store chicken and they hold up in the crock pot without turning to mush. Falls off the bone, but still firm enough to chew. "Chewey"???

 

[Flockincrazy]

How is everyone today, has your flock calmed down any?

Yah there all nice and calm today they were just having a bonkers day yesterday

 

[BlueBaby]

Yah there all nice and calm today they were just having a bonkers day yesterday

Maybe something was near yesterday that had them spooked?

 

[Flockincrazy]

Maybe something was near yesterday that had them spooked?

Idk but they were so loud yesterday probably just one of those days to be loud lol my cats and dogs pretty much keep the day critters away so idk

 

[416bigbore]

Yah there all nice and calm today they were just having a bonkers day yesterday

Glad to hear everyone is back to normal. I always say animals are a great judge of character and can also sense evil when it is near.

My old rescue German Shepherd Fritz ( RIP ) was a great judge of character in people. He was a black and tan and No Joke all business kind of dog around people. If he didn't like a person there must of been a good reason why and he would let the person know about it!

So when people knew I had him, no one ever came around unannounced. So if I did get company I would either have to put him in his kennel that was out of sight or put him on a HD cable in the yard.

Fritz was my buddy and an amazing dog, I miss him very much.

 

[416bigbore]

Ate my last "Freezer Camp Cockerel" this week. Crock pot was what it took, he was a little older, so not BBQ materiel but no pressure cooker required. I like them in the crock pot with rice and mushroom soup, they do not have as much fat as the store chicken and they hold up in the crock pot without turning to mush. Falls off the bone, but still firm enough to chew. "Chewey"???

I agree with you that there is a certain size and age of chicken for BBQ material. Hopefully Chewy grows out of his little attitude so freezer camp is not his new place of residence. LOL

I don't make a traditional BBQ chicken as most might. Mine is more of a marinated chicken that will soak in a vinegar spice mixture for a few days in the fridge before actually cooking it on the grill.

I don't like to use a bird that is over 3lbs to BBQ and it is very hard to find the smaller chickens unless a person wants to buy a small Cornish. Also the vinegar in the marinade helps break down the enzyme's in the meat to help tenderize it, so Chewy wouldn't turn out chewy and need to be pressure cooked! LOL

I grew up eating this very same BBQ chicken and still eat it regularly to this day. It has an amazing hardwood smoky flavor that is like no other and the smell of it cooking is so mouth watering.

The recipe is so simplistic, the real talent is in knowing how to BBQ the chicken over a cool hardwood fire without ruining it. If a person is not paying attention to the red hot briquets you can have a grease fire in a split second and all your hard work and time was for nothing! The scorched taste ruins the flavor.

 

[BlueBaby]

I rehomed 7 Silver Grey Dorking's yesterday, so now I only have the Naked Neck's and the Aloha's here to be able to concentrate on my project.

 

[416bigbore]

I rehomed 7 Silver Grey Dorking's yesterday, so now I only have the Naked Neck's and the Aloha's here to be able to concentrate on my project.

How is your project going right now, anything new progressing forward?

 

[BlueBaby]

How is your project going right now, anything new progressing forward?

Those pullet's haven't started laying yet, but the 2 NN Aloha hen's are. I'm also setting myself up to get some hatching egg's from another Aloha breeder that's been working on bringing in the blue egg gene. That will work with my NN Aloha's too, since they are laying those white egg's. I should have a few with gene divercity when I'm ready to start.

 

[416bigbore]

Those pullet's haven't started laying yet, but the 2 NN Aloha hen's are. I'm also setting myself up to get some hatching egg's from another Aloha breeder that's been working on bringing in the blue egg gene. That will work with my NN Aloha's too, since they are laying those white egg's. I should have a few with gene divercity when I'm ready to start.

That sounds very interesting, how many birds do you hope to end up with in the end when your project is successful?