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Oh, I have a 31 week old hormonal and randy PRIR cock who has just blown two of his three strikes all at once by flogging my 4yo. Where's the red and steaming emote? We've been slacking on the persecution therapy because he had been being such a good boy. Just came in from giving him about 15 minutes of persecution, including several runs around the yard being chased by the floggee. He is one stink eye away from being tasty with catsup. Or Merlot.

Can I make Coq au Vin with Merlot? Or should I just aim for chicken loaf and stock....

He's on borrowed time. This mama is steamed and has already processed an innocent today. Nasty cockerel will be a pleasure....
Does everybody use the three-strike system with their randy roos?? A friend last night was telling me about one of her best breeding roosters had come after her. She said she told him the second time that it was "Strike Two". Just thought it was funny that you used the same expression today.
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Oh, I have a 31 week old hormonal and randy PRIR cock who has just blown two of his three strikes all at once by flogging my 4yo. Where's the red and steaming emote? We've been slacking on the persecution therapy because he had been being such a good boy. Just came in from giving him about 15 minutes of persecution, including several runs around the yard being chased by the floggee. He is one stink eye away from being tasty with catsup. Or Merlot.

Can I make Coq au Vin with Merlot? Or should I just aim for chicken loaf and stock....

He's on borrowed time. This mama is steamed and has already processed an innocent today. Nasty cockerel will be a pleasure....
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is what you are looking for. In my opinion, that would have used up all three strikes plus all nine cat lives, too. I would go for the Coq au Vin, or maybe stew him for chicken pot pie.
 
I am processing the rest of my CX this weekend, and I plan to take two of them and get the smoker out. I use one smoker for pork/beef, and the other one for poultry. The last time we smoked chicken, we smoked, then split the carcass in half, and vacuum sealed and froze. They were really good over the winter.

Do you ever can your broth? I can meat, so I was thinking about actually canning the broth in the pressure cooker so it would be shelf-stable.
No, I haven't canned the broth yet. But it should keep well if hot packed I would think. I may end up doing that because I can't use more than a gallon or two at a time and don't want to see it go to waste!
 
I am processing the rest of my CX this weekend, and I plan to take two of them and get the smoker out.  I use one smoker for pork/beef, and the other one for poultry.  The last time we smoked chicken, we smoked, then split the carcass in half, and vacuum sealed and froze.  They were really good over the winter.

Do you ever can your broth?  I can meat, so I was thinking about actually canning the broth in the pressure cooker so it would be shelf-stable.


I can meat and broth. I loooove having home grown broth on hand. Nothing beats that flavor. I save everything I can in a stock making bag in my freezer until I have enough to make a couple three gallons of concentrated stock (roasted frames, backs, wingtips, necks, even feet. I don't save heads, tho - afraid I just can't get past the heads...) and have a stock can-a-thon.


Does everybody use the three-strike system with their randy roos?? A friend last night was telling me about one of her best breeding roosters had come after her.  She said she told him the second time that it was "Strike Two".  Just thought it was funny that you used the same expression today.:D


Lol, not officially. Maybe because I had just explained to my 9yo that a baseball bat would not be an appropriate rooster training stick... Cock in question seems to have gotten the point. At least he is meek today.

No, I haven't canned the broth yet.  But it should keep well if hot packed I would think.  I may end up doing that because I can't use more than a gallon or two at a time and don't want to see it go to waste!


By hot packed, do you mean processing with a hot water bath? Ymmv, but current guidelines call for pressure canning all meat products. Process chicken broth pints for 20 minutes, quarts 25, both at 10# pressure, allow pressure to release naturally. Noisy, and a little more time consuming, but the flavor is not affected, and is far safer, imho. Meats are a different time. Be happy to post those times, too, if you'd like. :D
 
:mad:  is what you are looking for.  In my opinion, that would have used up all three strikes plus all nine cat lives, too.  I would go for the Coq au Vin, or maybe stew him for chicken pot pie. 


Lol :mad: colon + somad. Gotcha. I use the mobile version almost exclusively, so I have to memorize or write down the codes.

Stanley the Turd is behaving very meekly today - and watching carefully to be sure he stays out of range of everyone, four year old included. I certainly have my eye on him. Shame, really, he had been acting like he would turn into a really good fellow. My main man for the layer girls, Walter (in my avvie) is ageing, and I need an understudy. I do have an approx 7wk 'Lorp coming up...
 
Lol, not officially. Maybe because I had just explained to my 9yo that a baseball bat would not be an appropriate rooster training stick... Cock in question seems to have gotten the point. At least he is meek today.

By hot packed, do you mean processing with a hot water bath? Ymmv, but current guidelines call for pressure canning all meat products. Process chicken broth pints for 20 minutes, quarts 25, both at 10# pressure, allow pressure to release naturally. Noisy, and a little more time consuming, but the flavor is not affected, and is far safer, imho. Meats are a different time. Be happy to post those times, too, if you'd like.
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yes.... I have canned numerous things over the years, but not broth or meat products. Just vegetable products and sauces. I hadn't seen anything newer than 20 yrs old or so for canning recommendations. Thanks for the heads up on the pressure canning for meats. Feel free to post the times, even if I'm not canning the meats I'm sure there are plenty of folks reading these meat bird threads who might be interested in doing so. I may do it myself sometime in the future too.
 
Sigh, quote once again not working...

Canning poultry:

Skinned, bones in or boneless, pack to within 1inch, cover with hot broth or water, remove bubbles. Boneless: pints 1 hour and 15 minutes, quarts 1 hour and 30 minutes. Bone-in: pints 1 hour and 5 minutes, quarts 1 hour and 15 minutes. All times are at 10 lbs pressure, allow pressure to reduce naturally.
 
Sigh, quote once again not working...

Canning poultry:

Skinned, bones in or boneless, pack to within 1inch, cover with hot broth or water, remove bubbles. Boneless: pints 1 hour and 15 minutes, quarts 1 hour and 30 minutes. Bone-in: pints 1 hour and 5 minutes, quarts 1 hour and 15 minutes. All times are at 10 lbs pressure, allow pressure to reduce naturally.
Thanks! Actually, after you mentioned canning the meat I started thinking how often I use chunked chicken... in soups, salads, stir fry, etc... would be a good way to salvage the small pieces we always seem to come up with during processing. Or just a great alternative to using freezer space, since I can chunk it, can it and stick it on a shelf for later use instead of freezing it whole and just having to chunk it for use later.

Good info to keep on hand!
 
OHHH SHOOT they are dying!! originally bought 12 and we are down to 10!! Might be 9 by now since one was looking pretty bad this morning. Saturday is processing day, hopefully we will have some left!
 
Tad, can you not do an emergency process on the poorly one now? Maybe skin him to eliminate the plucking part? Somewhere in the last few weeks (this thread?) I saw a posting about how to harvest meat w/o having to do a whole process... BRB
 

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