Posted on 07/19/2011 3:44:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
probably taste like chicken.. or some foul .. uhh fowl critter..
Thank you very much. I have begun my research.... I think I’m going to do this.
Thank you! I was going to say mesquite but I couldn’t remember how to spell it...
You’re welcome, and good luck.
I sort of envy you the muscovies. I had them in SoCal, where Pappa & 10 of his 3/4 grown boys beat the daylights out of a pair of coyotes that tried to raid Mamma’s nest, thinking she’d be an easy meal. They didn’t even manage to get a chicken, let alone a duck, dinner.
After that, the entire pack changed their twice weekly trek course by a couple of hundred yards farther out, and never dared to cross the arroyo again.
No, I’m afraid I’ve read of “studies”, one out of Australia, I think, that concluded that we all need to shoot our little puppy dogs because each one has the carbon footprint of an SUV.
That’s funny. My 2 gils and 2 guys are laid back, but they hold their ground when my GSD tries to play with them. They are fun.
Bought a farm this year.
Start a good chicken flock. Let them free-range pick bugs out of the garden during the day. Harvest catfish, place
the bones/skin/guts at the bases of plants in the garden.
Also feed catfish scraps to chickens.
Start a rabbit farm with the rabbits elevated on 1/4” wire.
Start worm farms under the rabbits and their waste.
Eat the rabbits, give the leftovers to the chickens and catfish. Start new gardens under the rabbit coops as you move the coops around. Feed the rabbits out of the garden.
Eat the chickens. Feed the leftovers to everything else.
Dig the worms to fish for catfish. And so on. It just sounds like a fun thing to try.
First hippie who interferes with my burger gets punched in the nose!
Hmm looks like its time to eat more meat. If the left is against it.. I am for it.
“A few years ago, I got in real trouble over a prank about stewed sea turtle. Some environmentalist went nuts and I almost got arrested.”
That there is a story that deserves publication on FR!
Around 2001, I made a batch of chicken gumbo. Instead of freezing the surplus, I caned it in quart canning jars. I thought it looked real good.
At that time, my real estate office overlooked a Florida beach. The locals were fighting over lights on the buildings disrupting the nesting sea turtles. These folks were the light bulb gestapo. If you left a light on at night, any light, they would find you and make you shut it off.
My funny bone got the best of me. I went to my computer and created some labels for my glass jars of chicken gumbo. I embellished the labels real good. I labeled it 'Sea Turtle Gumbo' with all the warnings and nutrition labels. I put the jars in the window ledge of the office overlooking the beach. Folks were getting some real good laughs over it.
That is until an environmentalist stumbled on them. I didn't know if I should call an ambulance or paddy wagon to haul her away. She went ballistic and called the turtle cops on me.
hahahahahaha! That was well worth every character you typed! I’m gonna have to remember to do that if I ever get the chance.
Yes, I think I read that one too, but they keep that quite. They don’t want to irritate their target audience until it’s too late for them to do anything.
You might want to re-think that plan, unless you are going to get more than 10 sows. You will need a boar, and it isn't worth feeding one all year for just a sow or two.
You would be better off buying feeder pigs or a couple bred gilts.
This group is the same one currently waging war on Monsanto
Muscovies also love termites.
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