Good Morning! <=2017

Colleen Kinzie · Post by **Colleen Kinzie** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 9:26 pm

ross wrote:QR_BBPOST Dang , hydro just went out better go check the hatching / setting eggs . Oops never mind , forgot all settled down nicely under "setting"
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Sorry , just had to but yes hydro is out . Lol luck

Smarty pants. Lol

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 9:33 pm

HAHAHAHAHA X2 Ross!!! are you all letting the bird rest for a couple days before consuming? I know the very first birds we ate did not rest at all and as OC predicted was tough. still great eating though. since then we let them rest 2 days before consuming or Lizzie puts them in the crock pot (hers not mine LOL) cooks it forever and the meat falls off the bone mmmm mmmm good!

who was it that was promoting the banty cornish as a great meat bird? was that Rudy? is Rudy even on here??? hmmmmm Yup Rudy is here!

So whats up with the hatching of the eggs Kenya? do they also carry the lethal gene?

anyway to breed that gene out? how does the genetics behind the lethal gene work?

SandyM · Post by **SandyM** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:02 pm

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:17 pm

When a beef is "processed" the meat is left to hang two weeks or longer. You pay a premium for meat left to hang 4 weeks.
I read about hunters in England who shoot a rooster pheasant; field dress it (remove internal organs) then nail the head to the wall of a shed (winter temps are above freezing typically) and when the body hits the floor its ready to eat (makes me shudder as a bit extreme but I haven't tasted it).

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 6:09 am

Yeah..i remember this being brought to we over sterilized North Americans in the old TV mini series, Shogun....damn pheasant was practically dissolving in the hanging and stank to high heaven....i think someone almost lost their head over it...lol

Post by **Killerbunny** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 7:05 am

Interesting thing about giving Stephen vitamins. Tried him on the bacon flavoured ones and there's no opening his beak, just yum yum and he laps them! Hope he doesn't think I'm infusing him for dinner.

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 7:19 am

KB...ewwww..noteverything goes better with bacon, contrary to popular belief....lmao

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 7:23 am

Guts in? Not if it was shot, depending on where the bird was hit the pellets would damage internal organs and bird would bleed and the meat would spoil real fast. That's why you field dress a bird when shot. It also cools the carcass quicker on a hot day.

Post by **WLLady** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 8:46 am

YUCK. just plain yuck. pheasant in my household is dressed, frozen overnight and THEN slow cooked in the oven and totally yummy. That hanging thing just sounds nasty. LOL. yes letting the birds rest for a couple of days either in the fridge or freezer removes "tough".

good morning everyone! glad i already had breakfast a while ago.....;-P
we got 55 mm of rain in an hour last night. absolutely unbelievable. we were literally under water. the water was up to my ankles and still coming out of the sky while i was closing up the free range chickens in the coop. we could have seriously drowned small animals last night. and thunder and lightning like crazy! glad it's over. i still don't enjoy a good thunderstorm like i used to....

Friday today! got the hatcher out of the giant box last night....still have to unpack the incubator....there's only so much lifting i can do in one day apparently. have to figure out how to put all the trays into the hatcher etc. also have to figure out where to put the two units....i know it will be in the front room somewhere, but not quite sure where yet. That will be my "job" for the weekend. get that room cleaned up and figure out where to put them. got a few fuzzybutts in the brooder pen now, i can't remember exactly how many turkeys but 2 cornish so far and i think either 5 or 6 turkeys.....i thought i heard something in some of the other eggs that hadn't hatched yet, so i'm leaving them for a day or so more. then i have another hatch on tuesday to lock down tomorrow. i'll try and get some photos this weekend. they're staying in the house because otherwise i'll need to find water wings for everyone....LOL

Al, i don't know what it is with the cornish. i can set 10 eggs, have 10 candle good at day 10, and have 8 go to hatch and get 2 hatched. I've tried everything now that i can think of. dry incubation, humidity low then high, humidity high throughout. i've tried keeping meticulous eye on the temps and turning it down as the eggs produce heat....same with humidity....i've been doing this for a year now, the turkey method actually works the best-drop the temp a degree and then up the humidity....they are just an absolute bugger to incubate. i'm hoping that somehow the sportsman magically fixes the problem LOL

Only a couple jobs for tonight-hand a heat lamp for the turkey poults that are finally moved from the one brooder into a pen, and check and see if the starlings are in the corners of the loft again...and then retry the leg bands with my new superglue...
Hope everyone has a great friday!

ross · Post by **ross** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:16 am

Hope the glue works for you Kathy . Luck