The Poultry - The Last of the Butchering for This Year

The Last of the 2012 Butchering

We took 3 geese, 5 drakes, 5 older hens, 8 turkeys and the old rooster to be butchered in Simla this morning.  We are much better than we were in the beginning at catching them without causing a lot of anxiety and a big kerfuffle in the coop.  Since the turkeys have been living mostly outside the coop and are strong flyers, I was a little worried about this.   But it turned out they are so tame it really wasn't an issue.

It was a beautiful morning out on the Bijou and a spectacular drive out Highway 86.   These birds had a nice life and they will feed a lot of people, one way and another.  We will sell some, give some as gifts and donate whatever we can't eat ourselves in a year to Libby and Brad at S.A.M.E. Cafe.

 

 

I will pick them up all wrapped and frozen on Monday.  When I get them home I will weigh them and wrap them a second time and label them.  We still have a small goose from last year, so I think we will have to have a Michaelmas Goose this fall.  Michaelmas is past, but the recipe is super!