**~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

[yinepu]

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lol.. you cut them up when you butcher.. so most of the meat is deboned..

this is a "baby" that I butchered for a friend (the bird was a failure to thrive chick.. small and not much meat.. but did make a really good stew)



most of the meat comes from the legs and thighs.. you can scrape together about 3 pounds from the breastbone (not much meat on the breast at all even on an adult since it's a flat bone and not keeled like regular poultry) and the strip along the back (breast and back strip are usually ground up like burger)... the neck can be treated like oxtail


on an adult bird there is a lot more meat.. so it's usually deboned and packaged that way..

with skinning (pelt can be saved feathers on or plucked to save the leather)
removing fat to render down (emu oil)
cutting up and deboning..
it can take two people a few hours to process one adult bird

 

[cuppycake]

Did anyone answer this? I have Orloffs in the bator for a friend. Pretty sure they're due Sat or Sun. Which will leave PLENTY of room for my tutors.


The second question is: Is it plugged in?

The third is: do you have a sledgehammer or open window?

And BF always asks me what I've spilled on my keyboard. He bought me a new laptop for my birthday a few years ago (after the other one died a horrible death involving water). The very next day we were on chat and I was having some whole chocolate milk and he said something really funny and the entire contents of my mouth flew in a pressurized stream onto the keyboard. Keys stuck for weeks. In fact, some of them still won't go down.


A sure sign that spring is here: I have an appointment today to get my summer tires on! We could still get snow but nothing bad enough to require the studs.

we've killed two different laptops that way in the last 5 or so years. First was from our dog knocking a bottle of beer onto the keyboard with his wagging tail. Then I used to have an adorable little netbook that met it's end when my then 4 month old daughter projectile vomited on it. That was crazy. I almost thought my current laptop was done for when DD (now 2) spilled half of an icee drink on it. Luckily I was able to clean it up and nothing got wet enough to fry it.

Update on my rough beginning to this hatch a long. I ordered some new wyandotte eggs (made sure they were standard and not bantam this time, lol) because I wanted at least SOMETHING to hope for. Well this morning I took one of my own barnyard mix eggs into the bathroom to candle and saw nothing (though it's still pretty early.) I figured I'd open it up to get a better look because 1) those are free eggs from my barn and 2) I've got wyandotte eggs coming anyway. So I broke it open into a bowl very carefully and what do I see? teeny tiny blood vessels and a teeny little speck. It looked exactly like the day 3 picture here: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8neZDScBg...gvsraPfBQ/s1600/chick_embryo_development1.jpg

anyway, I'm pretty excited about that. Now I'm not going to touch anything until next week. When my new eggs get here I'll let them rest and then I should (hopefully) be ready to do the day 10 candle on everything and set the new eggs at the same time.

For anyone unaware, I thought I cooked my eggs the very first night when I woke up to a temp reading of 108. Hoping for the best

 

[ChooksChick]

HEY!!!!​

I'm watching you! Don't go candling this early and thinking you can pull eggs just yet!!

no, I'm not having a stroke or head injury. I was prepped for surgery on my retina. Old pic.

 

[tazcat70]

Did anyone answer this? I have Orloffs in the bator for a friend. Pretty sure they're due Sat or Sun. Which will leave PLENTY of room for my tutors.


The second question is: Is it plugged in?

The third is: do you have a sledgehammer or open window?

And BF always asks me what I've spilled on my keyboard. He bought me a new laptop for my birthday a few years ago (after the other one died a horrible death involving water). The very next day we were on chat and I was having some whole chocolate milk and he said something really funny and the entire contents of my mouth flew in a pressurized stream onto the keyboard. Keys stuck for weeks. In fact, some of them still won't go down.


A sure sign that spring is here: I have an appointment today to get my summer tires on! We could still get snow but nothing bad enough to require the studs.

Exactly!

Oh no chocolate milk!

I am soooooo glad that I do not live somewhere I need snow tires! As I type that a limb breaks from the freezing rain we are getting. Grrrrr.

What size freezer bag would one need for that?

No more fighting over who gets the leg, since it is big enough to feed a family of 6.

 

[LFchixranch]

TOO Late I candled last night

. All show something except 3 of my own eggs the boys didn't get the job done on. Left them in, just in case they show signs later.

I set duck eggs and chicken eggs at the same time and was planning on just removing all but one of the trays from the turner with the duck eggs for tutor lockdown. Should work right?

 

[mstricer]

Funny funny

 

[tazcat70]

I candled last night too.

But it was other eggs that are due next week.

 

[tommysgirl]

I candled my non-shipped eggs ( Day 4) last night and either each one is developing or they have all gone bad in the same way. I am opting for optimism.

If they hatch these will all be barnyard mix dual purpose birds with Delaware, Australorp, Buff Orp and Production Red mamas under either Ray the wonder roo or a mix...maybe a Golden Comet boy. I am quite excited. I did look at a few of my dorking eggs, then got scared I would hurt them and put them back until Friday which will be day 7 that's when I will candle your eggs too Renee...I am fresh off the turnip truck when it comes to this hatching business think I know a little what I am looking for but you all should expect questions a plenty.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Confession- I candled, but, but, but, I put a bunch of Partridge Brahma n Silkies in lockdown. I can almost say it was an Accident! Perhaps I couldn't tell which they were by size?

Guilty I sowwy.

But three of four turk have veins! My first ones ever! Yay! HappyChooks thank u!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Is there no emotions on android ap for BYC first time using it.