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Bruce

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My chickens sometimes remember they have wings. They are obviously not as well designed for flying as geese are but they CAN do it for a distance if they WANT to. Now you have to hope your geese love their home enough they don't figure out they can get altitude as well!
 

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Joyce is kind enough to take their meat off the bone, but my thoughts are figure it out or starve....:)
I bet they would! Does she do it in front of them or before the plate gets to them? If the former, just give them the sharp knife, they already know how. And if the latter, how hard is it to NOT cut and eat the part the knife won't go through?? Bet it takes all of 1 second unless they have watched the process NOT at the table, then it will take 0 seconds. They don't have to live in their father's straight jacket.
 

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My chickens sometimes remember they have wings.
At meal time, we put the fermented feed on the ground in the chicken yard. If the birds have been in the chicken run, we open the door and the chickens and ducks are so excited to get to the food, they fly out of the run. It's fun to watch! :lol:

Our turkeys do that and they probably weigh 25 pounds. :cool:
That must be cool to see! Our turkey, Edith, is about 25 pounds, and we have never seen her fly. Occasionally she stretches her wings. But never anything even close to flying.
 
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Before I ever made my first batch of cheese, I watched some videos to get me started. One video I watched was for Mozzarella, by a guy who should have called his video how NOT to make Mozzarella cheese. :lol: A glug (or 2) of white vinegar ("Well, maybe that was a bit too much") Junket tablet crumbled into the milk. Heat for a minute or two (no thermometer). It was amazing that it actually resembled Mozzarella cheese!!! I decided I wasn't going to follow his directions. However, during the video, he mentioned that he sometimes adds smoke flavoring to his cheese. In fact he asked his two year old if he wanted some cheese. He said "No, I only want the smokey cheese".

So, I kept the idea of smokey cheese in the back of my head, and today, when I made three, two gallon batches of Mozzarella, I decided to try adding 1 tsp of Wright's Smoke flavoring to one of the batches. M-M-M! It is yummy!!! :drool I will definitely be doing that again!!! :celebrate
 

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boy your geese go nicely color wise with the muscovies. and yes at feeding time my chickens and ducks fly in from everywhere. really funny to watch but one has to duck from time to time. no pun intended..
because I love smoked cheese too I got a little stainless steel thingie that you put wood pellets and light it and put it and the cheese under the lid of the grill. makes cold smoke and yummy cheese.
and @CntryBoy777 i'd wait until you sil isn't there and give each of those kids a fried chicken leg. my guess is that they will eat it.
 

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Love smoked Gouda -- & pork chops with bone IN. :lol:

Those geese are just beautiful!! Please post pics occasionally so I don't have to buy any...:cool: I love the wing spreads. Last one looks like it is running for takeoff.

I'm thinking of a pair of turkeys that a guy has offered @$75 for the mated pair...first season, adults. Narangasetts.(sp?) Heritage and supposedly very docile. He raises them, so I'd like two hens. Have location & housing, would HOPE to buy only to have them set a couple clutches for my freezer ea yr...sell xtra. Not a done deal but, maybe.
 

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Naw @goatgurl they won't....we had some the other nite and Joyce had to take it off the bone....and @Bruce that would be like putting meat on DD's plate....would she get a new plate or just remove the meat herself, or ask another to do it for her?.....;)
 

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We got our turkeys on an impulse buy thinking we would regret it but now we are thinking about ways to give them more space for a turkey area. They have more personality than I ever thought they would and are actually pretty good guardians for our chickens.
 
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