Turkey question.

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So can I buy a Midget White in a store, or would I have to order a live one and clean it myself?
I'd rather buy it already dead and cleaned.
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If you are raising your own, you can butcher at any size you want.

If you are buying, a couple of solutions:

Just buy a breast. Or if you like dark meat, just buy a couple of thighs. Or one breast and one thigh.

Buy a full size bird and separate it into parts and just cook part of it at any one time. Store the rest in the freezer

Cook a full size bird and then do what I do: make turkey enchiladas out of the leftovers and freeze those in individual servings to be brought out and microwaved on days that I don't have time to cook.

There is genuinely no reason that you can't have a golden brown roast chicken for Thanksgiving if you don't want leftovers.
 
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How old was your Bourbon Red? He looks YUMMY!!!!!!!!! I have a few males and I was thinking about selling them for Thanksgiving.

I don't know how old it was. I didn't raise it. I bought it for Thanksgiving one year by searching on www.localharvest.org and finding a farm that raised pastured turkeys. I think the bird was about 15 pounds....don't remember...it was a few years back. I also don't know if it was male or female. Sorry that's not much help.

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ETA -- Oh, and my rotisserie is the Showtime model, from the infomercials a few years back. It was my one and only purchase at Walmart (done online), because they were the only seller I found that had the largest size rotisserie in this brand available for sale. Here it is on their website. Mine is white, however.

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May I please ask, only if you want, how much did you pay? I started raising BR turkeys this year and while I don't have any to sell, people WANT them. I realize they are pricey, when I looked around online the most common price was $7/lb. I want to figure it out now so I can let people know if they decide to pre-order. Mine are free range but will be put in a large 36' x 40' pen for the last month as free range pickin's get slim around here in Oct/Nov. In everyones opinion would that change my free range status?
 
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I went through the Local Harvest site and sorted through to find the place that raised the turkey in that pic. Mine came from Ayrshire Farm in Virginia, but being as I was living on Long Island, I had to have it shipped. This is their listing on Local Harvest. I got the 10-13 lb turkey.

Incidentally, they also raise Midget White turkeys. I suppose those are the ones in the smaller range in their listing.


Oh, and for the original poster who was looking for a "small turkey" that wouldn't give leftovers -- have you considered a guinea fowl or two? I just read this thread on the guinea fowl forum....thought you'd find the post below to be interesting.

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Actually... I just recently had 6 extra male Guineas butchered by a mobile butcher as a trial run the other day... to see if I'd like the taste of the meat or not (I've never had pheasant, so I was a bit leary). He said leave them in ziplocks for 48 hours, then cook them... so I did as he suggested and I waited.

So.... after 48 hours I cooked 2 in the crockpot on a bed of fresh herbs from my garden (rosemary, oregano, plus 8 cloves of garlic and 2 big handfuls of chopped chives) and topped the pot off with some chicken broth and cooked them on low until the meat was just about falling off the bones... and I have to say they were ABSOLUTELY FABULOUSLY TASTY, and the broth they were cooked in made some super yummy gravy too!!! drool
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My Mom came over and we stuffed the other 4 with cornbred stuffing and roasted them like a stuffed Chicken or Turkey yesterday, 2 to a baking bag... and they tasted just like roasted Turkey and the house smelled just like Thanksgiving while they were roasting!
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They only drawback is that they don't provide a lot of meat, It was tasty and tender, just not much there. These guys were all pen raised, between 16-18 weeks old and weighed about 2 to 2.5 lbs each dressed out. 1 bird is a decent meal for 2 people tho.

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