Processing Day Support Group ~ HELP us through the Emotions PLEASE!

[chiques chicks]

Ummm, Sally, cabelas has them.

 

[chiques chicks]

They also carry, knives and almost anything needed for butchering, if I recall.

 

[chiques chicks]

Sometimes tractor supply had fryers over the summer, too

 

[missnu01]

of course the cheap one on walmart site is out of stock!  

The cheap one is the one I am getting. Last I checked it was still available in store.

not up here, OOStock : ( booo whooooo   DH said nothing on CL either

We got ours online from a bass pro shop. As I recall it was cheap..

 

[missnu01]

I guess I could take the lid off the camp stove but I don't have a big pot either my pot pie pot is big but not enough for a LF brahma, the prizes of those pots are 50 bucks alone! holy moly!

We just got the biggest Dutch oven the store had to offer. It wasn't expensive either...although me had it prior to the chickens

 

[ronott1]

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Here in California we can find huge cheap pots for steaming Tamales....we have a large Hispanic population here.

 

[kacklinkelly]

Sally, thought you'd get a laugh at my meaties. I offered them the FF and added a little bit of the dry stuff to
create some consistency to it. I put it down for the scavengers and came back about an hour later prepared to
see it gone.... They were laying in it and chirping for their food. They had tried some, but most of it was still there.
I offered them more dry stuff and they nearly knocked it out of my hands as I was pouring it. The scavenging
began. I think for now, I will be passing on the FF (it's still not bubbling by the way) I must be the only one on this site
unable to get it started.

p.s. DH really wants absolutely NOTHING to do with the meaties. He went from that same resistance to really enjoying our laying
hens and is the one to gather the eggs every day and texts me how many we got. I don't think he is coming around on the meatie
thing and sees no purpose in us raising them. Walmart is only 2 miles away and has great deals. He is tolerating it for now but am
sure he will not support another batch. I sure hope the taste blows him away. I know he'll at least try it. Oh well..
I just remind him of some of his "purposeless" hobbies that fulfill him and the conversation ends and we start another topic.
boy we have come along way in 30+ years. No more battle of the wills. Just laugh together at each other's weirdness as we
get older.

 

[lizanne]

Here in California we can find huge cheap pots for steaming Tamales....we have a large Hispanic population here.

Oh, good idea!! I was mostly thinking those big turkey fryers that were super popular a couple years ago, or a steam canner pot. I'll start keeping my eyes open for a tamale steamer.

 

[missnu01]

Any huge pot that can hold water and withstand a flame will do it

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

We use a large stock pot over a propane fryer thingy...we also use it to make homemade potato chips...not the pot but the propane thing...it definitely works though. Like the largest Dutch oven you can find will also work great.

We use a huge six gallon stockpot that my husband uses to brew beer. Bought it at at restaurant supply store. We then put it on an old propane grill that we bought at a garage sale for ten bucks. I highly recommend checking out a local restaurant supply store. As long as you don't buy stainless, it won't break the bank.