We raise rare-breed Narragansett turkeys. Even though numbers of these birds are limited, we still end up with too many males to females ratio.
My husband, being a practical man, thinks we need to recoup some of our feed costs involved in raising the birds by selling hatching eggs and eating the extra offspring.
So, off to 'Sue's Pin and Feather' we went the other night with six turkeys and four ducks. Sue provides the butchering and preparation of the birds, and this morning when I go back to Fort Atkinson, I will pick up ten snap frozen, bagged birds ready for our freezer.
This time of year is obviously a good time to be loading up with turkeys as Americans prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, or at least the rest of our extended family seems to think so! Turkey, anyone?
Our turkeys free range through the summer out on pasture eating bugs and insects. They are not fed hormones so their growth rate is slow, but the meat is excellent.
Our ancestors knew what they were doing when they created the Narragansett breed by crossing wild native turkeys with the ones they brought over from Europe. Even Abraham Lincoln was once given a gift of Narragansett turkeys from the people of Rhode Island.
If it was good enough for Abe, whom I have always admired, it's good enough for me.
Pass the cranberry sauce, would you please?
My husband, being a practical man, thinks we need to recoup some of our feed costs involved in raising the birds by selling hatching eggs and eating the extra offspring.
So, off to 'Sue's Pin and Feather' we went the other night with six turkeys and four ducks. Sue provides the butchering and preparation of the birds, and this morning when I go back to Fort Atkinson, I will pick up ten snap frozen, bagged birds ready for our freezer.
This time of year is obviously a good time to be loading up with turkeys as Americans prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, or at least the rest of our extended family seems to think so! Turkey, anyone?
Our turkeys free range through the summer out on pasture eating bugs and insects. They are not fed hormones so their growth rate is slow, but the meat is excellent.
Our ancestors knew what they were doing when they created the Narragansett breed by crossing wild native turkeys with the ones they brought over from Europe. Even Abraham Lincoln was once given a gift of Narragansett turkeys from the people of Rhode Island.
If it was good enough for Abe, whom I have always admired, it's good enough for me.
Pass the cranberry sauce, would you please?
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