Millennials are disrupting Thanksgiving with their tiny turkeys

MSN/Money ^ | November 17, 2018 | Leslie Patton

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Nothing Better!

Beau hunted turkey for the first time this past Spring. 15 minutes in, he bagged a 30# Tom! He’s like, ‘That was easy!’ LOL!

He butchered and de-boned the thighs and the breasts. So delicious! I have ONE thigh left to use up.

[bgill]

We’ll still get served turkey next Thursday at a relatives house, but at least I’ll get what I like on Friday.

To heck with the relatives. Don't like them and don't like their holiday dishes. We learned that lesson. Stay home and have what you like. Much more enjoyable and relaxing.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

What is that, about 10,000 birds? LOL!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Next year we will be started raising Midget Whites for our own needs but it sounds like there might be a market for them.

[cyclotic]

Try trash can turkey. It gives smoked a run for its money. Look it up online.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I did a test-run of Prime Rib a few weeks back. I’d never tried one before - SUCCESS!

I have another that I’m going to do up for Christmas, as it’s at my house this year.

Can’t wait! :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

WOW!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m going to raise meat birds in the future and raise a Tom Turkey for us one of these years, too!

The beef steers we raised were named, ‘Dinner’ and ‘Supper.’ The next one is going to be named, ‘Weber.’ LOL!

[ETL]

Everyone can come until we run out of turkey and/or mayo

[dgbrown]

“Juice the large watermelons for drinks later on. Pickle the rind. Waste not, want not. Very little goes to waste around here.”

Pickled watermelon rinds wrapped in bacon. Complements scallops wrapped in bacon.

Left over turkey? Give me a jar of Hellmanns and the carcass will be stripped and ready for stock.

[TalBlack]

Let’s start a list of the things that aren’t “natrual”
1. Wearing clothes 2. Hurtling thru the air@30,000 feet @500 mph. 3. Central cooling, heating. 4. living in houses. 5. Antibiotics...etc.

[bgill]

There’s a place advertising fresh turkeys. Claims you can taste how good a life they had. And only $200 each.

I’ll stick with my 78 cents/lb frozen gobbler from Wally World.

[Sparticus]

To heck with the relatives. Don't like them and don't like their holiday dishes. We learned that lesson. Stay home and have what you like. Much more enjoyable and relaxing.

Sorry you have such an unpleasant family. I don't mind mine so much even if there are a couple of odd ducks in the bunch. At least not enough to disown them over turkey, LOL.

[Larry Lucido]

In other news. there is just as much leftover “Tofurkey” as ever.

[discostu]

In my house hold it’s invisible turkey, cause I hate turkey. Nasty unpleasant meat.

[al baby]

I wish my mom passed when my twin and i were 7

[Larry Lucido]

Don’t call them capons. They’re not castrated chickens. Nor are they chicks. They’re not babies. They’re just turkeys that weigh in the neighborhood of six pounds.

"You've got your tom, your hen, your capon, and your turkey. Something's missing."

[Tennessee Nana]

I always look for a 22/23 pounder...

Sorry Snowflakes ...I like leftovers...how can it be wasteful if its all eaten ???

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I named the calf last year Pot Roast. This year my husband got fancy and named it Bourguignon.

You want to shut the bird you are going to harvest up for a couple of weeks and feed him what my husband calls a "plumping" diet as the pasture raised birds can be very lean.

[elcid1970]

An avid turkey hunter once told me that only the breast meat was edible, the thighs & wings were simply too tough. Made sense, a wild turkey can both fly and run extremely fast. I saw both in action when a turkey T-boned my minivan on interstate; left a dent.

Anyway, never had turkey growing up. For Thanksgiving & Christmas my grandmother bought a Padgett chicken from a local breeder who tried to take his large birds to China in the 1930’s. Family dinners were eight adults & four kids; the roast bird was large enough to feed us all & there were leftovers. All the fixin’s were homemade; no Stove Top. Such memories.