November 21, 2006 – Thanksgiving Turkey

Here’s one of our thanksgiving turkeys. Today was the day they went to the locker – so they are fresh for Thanksgiving.

It was a rough start to the turkey season – first 10 of 15 of the poults arrived dead from the hatchery this summer. As the replacements weren’t sent for a month, we were worried about the turkeys getting to size. Then a feral cat, ate some of the other turkeys out on the range. At $5 a poult, it adds up in a hurry. We ended up with 9.

The biggest two were about 26 lb and the rest were 12-16 lb, which wasn’t too bad. We kept two – one 16 lb for Thanksgiving and the biggest one Emma cut up and vacuum-packed for many meals. We traded a couple of turkeys for some berkshire pork from Eden Farms. We fried up some chops tonight and they were the best I’ve ever had – literally melt in your mouth chops.

one year ago…

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  1. We have been getting our poults from Reich Poultry farms in Marietta, Pa and have had great luck so far. No DOA’s yet in 3 years, 230 turkeys total. (717) 426 3411. For 15 poults it was $46.95 plus shipping. For a hundred or more they are less than $2 each. Also, I built a whizbang plucker about 4 years ago and couldn’t be happier with it. Nice blog by the way.

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