Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[hipeatall]

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I'm a vegetarian (and have been for 9 years), but I read it anyway. I'm not adverse to eating my own raised birds but have never done it (I know they were happy and will hopefully be butchered humanely) ... how old was the roo? I've got 2 that are about 4 months old that I can't even give away.

This was them a few weeks ago...
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He was about 22 weeks. From the looks of it I could have done it quite a bit earlier. He grew pretty fast.
Why can't you give away? Nobody interested in a nice meal? I tried to give mine away alive because I thought he was pretty (I still have his brother). But no takers. So this was plan B.

Just my opinion, but, I think when you are breeding chickens and hatching out lot's of chicks... you really have to have a Plan B. So, we learned how to humanely butcher our extra roos last July and I have to say, I feel really good knowing how to do this myself.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I think I'm going to do my year old roo (he's turning into a jerk) and these two kids. Boyfriend says he'll kill and gut if I pluck. I've never plucked anything before but of all the jobs associated with eating your own food, I can imagine plucking is the least problematic to a vegetarian.

I put an ad in the paper. It's been running a week now. I get phone calls but when they call I get the questions about what are naked necks then either no thank you or I'll call you back if I decide to do it. They're just not popular. And I even specified I had males also in the ad, no calls about them. I brought them to a chicken swap on Saturday, also no interest. I've had ads up on craigslist and even on here.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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I totally agree with you. We have a rule here: no unauthorized breeding - that includes pets AND humans. Our plan was to sell or give away the extras and if that didn't work to eat them. We just haven't had to eat them, yet. Now it's becoming an issue. Like I said before, I'm a vegetarian but won't have a problem eating my own well raised and decently killed chickens.

I'd just prefer NOT to. Until I taste them, of course. Might change my mind then

 

[hipeatall]

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You can do it! Honestly, I didn't think plucking was bad at all. It takes a little time and you want to make sure you get a really good scald so the feathers are easy to remove. I watched a whole bunch of YouTube videos on processing before we did our birds and I think knowing what to expect and kindof seeing it ahead of time really helped me alot.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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Fantastic... I'll have to check those videos out. YouTube has helped me out of a few binds. There was also a pretty good article in backyard poultry a few months back with the step by step on how to process a bird.

 

[ca]

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I totally agree with you. We have a rule here: no unauthorized breeding - that includes pets AND humans. Our plan was to sell or give away the extras and if that didn't work to eat them. We just haven't had to eat them, yet. Now it's becoming an issue. Like I said before, I'm a vegetarian but won't have a problem eating my own well raised and decently killed chickens.

I'd just prefer NOT to. Until I taste them, of course. Might change my mind then

You are the first "auto-vegetarian" I hear about. Autovegetarian: Will only eat self killed meat (I just made that up

). That is fabulous! I am not really a vegetarian but pretty much refuse to eat any meat in public because of the likelyhood of miserable conditions in which the poor animal had to grow up. Don't worry too much. If you butcher them yourselfs you know how they ended. That's a good thing.

 

[ca]

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You can do it! Honestly, I didn't think plucking was bad at all. It takes a little time and you want to make sure you get a really good scald so the feathers are easy to remove. I watched a whole bunch of YouTube videos on processing before we did our birds and I think knowing what to expect and kindof seeing it ahead of time really helped me alot.

I have never seen it done before and did not think of YouTube (me, wrong generation

). I wore rubber gloves. That really worked well. The rest is pretty self explanatory: "looks like that's a good part to eat. should take off feathers!"

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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I totally agree with you. We have a rule here: no unauthorized breeding - that includes pets AND humans. Our plan was to sell or give away the extras and if that didn't work to eat them. We just haven't had to eat them, yet. Now it's becoming an issue. Like I said before, I'm a vegetarian but won't have a problem eating my own well raised and decently killed chickens.

I'd just prefer NOT to. Until I taste them, of course. Might change my mind then

You are the first "auto-vegetarian" I hear about. Autovegetarian: Will only eat self killed meat (I just made that up

). That is fabulous! I am not really a vegetarian but pretty much refuse to eat any meat in public because of the likelyhood of miserable conditions in which the poor animal had to grow up. Don't worry too much. If you butcher them yourselfs you know how they ended. That's a good thing.

Getting a little off topic here (apologies!) but I think the auto-vegetarian thing should really catch on. Wonder if it's too soon to change my GFM title?

 

[featherz]

LOL.. well, I don't eat chicken, not even my own BUT if I *did*, I think I'd have to do it myself. As for how to rehome the extra chickies, is there an auction near you? that's where I plan to take all my extras assuming I can't find homes for individuals.

Back on topic - my baby turkens are doing great! A few of them appear to have 'dry skin' on the necks. Should I be applying anything? it's pretty humid here right now, so it's not dry air..

 

[BlueBirdChick]

heres moe all grown up lol

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