Does anyone else butcher their own meat?

[Poka_Doodle]

Not sure what you mean about their existence, but in Colorado and Wyoming there are Antelope.

I agree about how unfun doing birds is.

 

[Mini Horses]

So -- question. Why bunny burgers? Is it just because you have rabbit meat, looking to use? Curious, that's all. When gramps skinned them, they just cut up & fried (or canned). Since I haven't eaten rabbit in many years, just never any thought to other ways of cooking.

Next, Bay, you would love to shoot that big ole buck living next door. LOL He's fat & slick....as are his does. Well fed on all the crops around here -- corn, soybean, peanuts, wheat, milo. It's a wildlife paradise.

Today I had to wait for about 15-20 wild turkey to cross the road! We have some nice birds around here.

Do you guys know that a single smoked chicken/turkey foot is $1 each in Jeffers catalog???

Next Spring I will be butchering -- excess roos from straight runs.

 

[Baymule]

At one time I had over 100 breeding does, I raised and showed Satin rabbits. I had red, white, black, chinchilla and Siamese colors. I sold show prospect bunnies and butchered the culls. I sold the culls for meat and ate a lot of them. Since I had so many, I got creative on my recipes, hence Bunny Burgers!

@Mini Horses sounds like you have some Primo venison walking around your neighborhood!

 

[misfitmorgan]

Not sure what you mean about their existence, but in Colorado and Wyoming there are Antelope.

I agree about how unfun doing birds is.

You must be talking about pronghorns...which from what i gather are called antelope out there. There are no true antelopes in the US not in the wild anyhow.

 

[misfitmorgan]

We don't do store poultry either. In fact we don't do store anything unless we are desperate!

Between now and Thanksgiving we need to butcher 8 turkeys and 36 or so meat birds, and a pig. Hopefully we'll also have a deer shortly after!

Sadly we got no turkeys this year so we are gonna have to do store turkey.. im not to happy about it but it is what it is. Lots and lots of deer around here....we live in a heavily populated area for deer even in Northern Michigan. In the afternoon driving home from work which is a 8 mile drive it is not unusual to see 30-50 deer in yards and fields.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

You must be talking about pronghorns...which from what i gather are called antelope out there. There are no true antelopes in the US not in the wild anyhow.

Hmm, I'd never exactly realized that if it is true.

 

[lcertuche]

We don't have a rifle or shotgun, any gun for that matter but an abundance of wildlife. All my neighbors hunt wild pigs that run rampant here. There is also a black bear that meanders down our driveway and of course some fine looking deer. Rabbits galore and squirrels. If we had a gun I guess we could fill the freezer. I have invited a young friend come and hunt the bear when the season rolls around. Several years ago a bear chased my neighbor on his 4 wheeler. He locked himself in his chicken house and the bear pushed over the 4 wheeler. I worry about my children playing outside.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Okay, so it's mid November, today my dad and thinner brother left, tomorrow my older brother is leaving to go hunt. While I have nothing close to an idea when they will return I'm still excited to get in the garage and cut meat.

 

[NH homesteader]

We did our pig last week. It was cool to learn. My husband and I much prefer it to poultry. Our meat birds and extra cockerels are in the freezer with the pig and our turkeys go this weekend. Keeping an eye out for signs of deer, we finally got a place to hang it when we do.

I forgot about this thread

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Sounds like fun!!!

I also did so there weren't any posts about doing our chickens this summer.