Okies in the BYC The Original

[faerielady]

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The dietary restrictions are usually ones a person is raised with... easy to stick to them if you've never deviated before/don't know what something tastes like. Personally, I also don't like the way pork smells, live on the hoof or cooked and served, so the lack of pork products has never bothered me.

Orthodox and Chasidic (ultra Orthodox) only use the forequarters, with the ribs removed. Well, I take that back. They can HAVE the rib cuts, and they do in Boston... but everywhere else a kosher butcher is going to usually just sell chuck, plate, brisket and shin. Conservatives, Reform, and Messianic believe that the entire cow is kosher to eat if it is slaughtered correctly (throat cut, no stunning blow beforehand, with the organs inspected and the slaughter overseen by a Rabbi).

I am not a Jew, personally. My dad is a Messianic Jew, and raised us that way. I stay with the dietary restrictions because 1. there are good reasons for a lot of them, and 2. I don't particularly like the smell of the things I wasn't allowed to have when I was growing up. I have deviated in the past (like I love chicken salad, which isn't kosher... and I'll serve a roast with mashed potatoes and I make the potatoes with milk, which is also not kosher).

Chicken, turkey, duck, quail, and pheasant are definitely approved to eat

Chicken is my favorite, followed closely by turkey. I shall raise my own turkeys one day... but I'm already a chicken rebel. There's no way in heck that I'd get away with owning turkeys here... they are unfortunately too noisy

 

[EngieKisses]

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We do, but it is set on a NPR radio station because I was told that it would keep the critters away from them. We have not had a critter attack either, so they are not getting a music station, lol.

 

[artsyrobin]

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I am glad they all did alright! My uncle has been having problems with escape Austerlorps, lol.

my RIR is funny, will watch her go around the run looking at possibilities... i think they hatch it, cuz if one gets out, i let the others out to play

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

9:50 pm

Teach--- Are you sure their not Arabian trumpters,I never heard of Iranian trumpters! I had some Italians,They are really neat little birds. Good parents and prolific! They will tame down real good.
I had another broddy all hatched out when I got home. Beautiful bunch of EE's. Anyone know about the rumpless factgor. If I use this new rumpless EE on my hens will the rumplessness crop out every now and then?
Its supposed to do a hard freeze here tonight. Man I'm going to have to keep the brooder going all winter! I should have stopped setting hens a month ago. But the chicks are so cute!
Sooner howis the baby doing? Glad you got the fenceing done. Thats always more work than you inialty think it would be!

 

[nnbreeder]

Teva used to work for Hanor up at Ames. They started out as PIC and then Hanor bought them out. Now I see the old Hanor feedmill up in Enid is now Robert's Ranch which is where the Hanor hogs went. Teva worked in a farrowing barn.

I just about fell over when she told me how many sows she cared for on a daily basis. As you said the numbers are huge. They shipped out about four semi loads of weanlings five times a week.

 

[Teach97]

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Don't know nothing about Clenner! Seaboard is a massive operation...something like couple hundred thousand sows putting out a couple million piggies each year...they do have some farms near Beaver

Thanks Lady! I have watched a Rabbi slaughter before...that was a note to self moment...don't tick off Rabbi with knife! Talk about an efficent and humane way to slaughter an animal!

 

[Sooner]

They are running test that won't be back for 24 hrs, they have him on anitbiotics incase it is some long word that I can't pronounce and if not that then sleep apinathy (sp) he will wear a monitor for 14 days. They will be in the hospital till at least wed.

 

[al6517]

GOOOOO BEARSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Buster you had better be careful when refering to my boy's, we are gettin ready to score

I don't wannna look, we look terrible today in the red zone. That New Orleans/Giants game was really great.

DA BEARS !!!!!!!!!!!!! Just tied it up !!!!!!!!!!.


You guy's have been a little strange tonight with all the talk of Ham hands, Stinky feet, Stinky pigs,

Don't worry your fettishes are safe with me LOL

AL

 

[Teach97]

daschunds - how big are you breeder areas for pigeons? I am gonna put in some specific cages in the loft to start pairing folks up so I can see who isn't paired and then ship them out! Either as supper or as feed support!

 

[faerielady]

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Well, Teach, ya don't know if you don't ask

Chickens are thoroughly inspected repeatedly during the butchering process. They can't be downed, dropped, have any kind of disease that is detectable, etc. After they have their throats slit and bleed out, head and feet are removed and discarded immediately. They can't be treated with hot water before salting because that would render them trief, or inedible.

Other than the rather rigid butchering practices, there aren't any parts of chickens that are specifically unable to be eaten as long as it has passed inspection. Only the practicing Orthodox/Ultra Orthodox usually purchase butchered chicken from a licensed kosher/kashrus certification. The rest of us tend to butcher our own, or buy from small farmers who have butchered kosher fashion before and know how it's supposed to be done.