Is this how people clean their wild birds? I always plucked
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Really wasteful and stupid. Plucking is the way to go. Doesn't matter if you eat the skin or not but it does make a huge difference in how well the bird cooks with the skin on.Is this how people clean their wild birds? I always plucked
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I have skinned owl kills in the middle of winter looking for punctures, but I get the thigh medallions if ok.Really wasteful and stupid. Plucking is the way to go. Doesn't matter if you eat the skin or not but it does make a huge difference in how well the bird cooks with the skin on.
They are also missing the two best pieces of meat on any poultry carcass.
Had a hen hatch 8 of eleven eggs. On the way to the pen she stopped and picked a fight with the dog through a chain link fence.No pictures but first 3 hatches of the year. Monday was a chicken chick instead of the turkey eggs due next week. gave the turkey eggs to another due then.
Today a nest that had been rained on had 12 of 15 hatch. She was on a walk about leaving them alone, so I grab 11 and gave to the " Good Mama" ...she has a couple that hatched today and she is in a ex large dog crate in a coop. Came back later and cleaned up. One was clear, one quit early and one was halfway out dead.
The one that went from 12 to one seems to be ok with it. She called for a few minutes and the one came. She doesn't act like she knows I took them. She didn't see or hear me take them. I used my shirt like a harvest apron and they were warm and quiet. I sure didn't dilly dally since I had shorts on. But it was the perfect opportunity.
I have seen a couple this year.I saw this and wanted to share, the bumblebees are out in force this spring.View attachment 3818099
Nice currants. Here the bumblebees are after the gooseberries. The honeybees are working the plum, currant and serviceberries along with the dandelions.I saw this and wanted to share, the bumblebees are out in force this spring.View attachment 3818099
Well I can't find this hen and her lone poult this morning. I assume something got them. Or she's hiding somewhere. There was a storm last night and I was out there checking fences a few minutes after sunrise. No sign of a struggle, she was in a knee high weedy area 100x50. I would think there would be smashed weeds if not feathers. It was almost 60f this morning and 65 now.No pictures but first 3 hatches of the year. Monday was a chicken chick instead of the turkey eggs due next week. gave the turkey eggs to another due then.
Today a nest that had been rained on had 12 of 15 hatch. She was on a walk about leaving them alone, so I grab 11 and gave to the " Good Mama" ...she has a couple that hatched today and she is in a ex large dog crate in a coop. Came back later and cleaned up. One was clear, one quit early and one was halfway out dead.
The one that went from 12 to one seems to be ok with it. She called for a few minutes and the one came. She doesn't act like she knows I took them. She didn't see or hear me take them. I used my shirt like a harvest apron and they were warm and quiet. I sure didn't dilly dally since I had shorts on. But it was the perfect opportunity.