Turkey Sausage in the making

[RAREROO]

So how many acutal birds did it take for this batch of sausage Steve and about how many ducks did it take for the duck sausage you made ? Sausage with seasonings should be a good use for these dark meat birds. I didnt really care for my thanksgiving duck, he was kinda tough, probably becuase he was older and I didnt care of all the dark meat, but it would probably be good with sausage seaonings.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

I don't really know how many birds it took. When we process ducks we just skin them and use the leg 1/4's for sausage meat - debone them and the giblets and put in a 1 gallon zip lock bag in the freezer. Once we get a couple bags and some free time (whatever that is

we make sausage. The breast fillets we save, you can do alot with them, grill, stir fry etc etc. On the turkeys we only use the thighs and giblets for sausage, the drumsticks and wings go in the pressure cooker 15 pounds for 10 minutes until the meat falls off the bone. That we use for taco's etc etc and the breast fillets the same as the ducks.

We process poultry once or twice a month depending on the time of year and what's growing out. I don't really like making a whole day out of processing so that's the reason we do it more often. With skinning them it only takes a few minutes per bird and you don't have to worry about all the set up that goes with plucking

The turkey meat we just did was a gallon size bag and a 1/2. that came out to 15 pounds of meat.

Steve

 

[RAREROO]

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OK Cool. Later on, probably after I hatch my own, I will try some more younger scovies and probably some of the mallard derived breeds and see if there is any difference there, but like you said, i'm not going to worry with plucking anymore, I'll just skin them and use the breasts to cook with and find some use for the legs. pressure cooking for soups and broths maybe. And then I'm thinking about trying guineas too and see how they are. But they would have to be REALLY good to put up with the noise long enough to get them to butchering size.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

We just sold our entire flock of jumbo Guineas if that tells you anything about them. We like Pheasants better.

Steve

 

[ColbyNTX]

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Which one? Looks like there's everything from a $99 575 watt one all the way up to a 1.5 HP for $630.

I have the LEM modle 779 with the #8 head and .35HP motor. More than enough to do the deer and hogs we harvest. It is around $300.00 and the foot pedal is extra. Anymore questions about it, PM me because I don't want to hijack Steves thread!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Don't worry about that Colby, any info we can share is good info!

Steve

 

[RAREROO]

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What was it about them that you didnt like ? All the dang noise or the taste of the meat or both ? I've heard from several sources that White Guineas have lighter meat and skin so thats the kind I plan to get if I do raise them from meat but I'm just gonna buy one to try first and see.

 

[marquisella]

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OK Cool. Later on, probably after I hatch my own, I will try some more younger scovies and probably some of the mallard derived breeds and see if there is any difference there, but like you said, i'm not going to worry with plucking anymore, I'll just skin them and use the breasts to cook with and find some use for the legs. pressure cooking for soups and broths maybe. And then I'm thinking about trying guineas too and see how they are. But they would have to be REALLY good to put up with the noise long enough to get them to butchering size.

I found that the guineas were the most noisy their first year. After that, they only were noisy when something came around that scared them. Like, a hawk or fox. They were my chickens "predator alert" and it worked well.

Sue

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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What was it about them that you didnt like ? All the dang noise or the taste of the meat or both ? I've heard from several sources that White Guineas have lighter meat and skin so thats the kind I plan to get if I do raise them from meat but I'm just gonna buy one to try first and see.

The noise you get use to and they are good watch dogs but they are major feed hogs. Ours free ranged but they went from pen to pen and would empty the feeders.

Steve

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Last pic of the sausage from last night. It was good

Steve