Cow manure

[seedcorn]

The farther south you go, the more bugs so they have an easier time scavenging. In southern Tennessee, grandpa had games running free year round living on whatever they found. Always fun looking for eggs. Never ate a 6 week old chicken there u less you wanted to eat feathers. At 3-4 months old, good eats.

 

[Jared77]

I always wanted bleeding heart doves.....

 

[seedcorn]

I always wanted bleeding heart doves.....

Not too late.

 

[baymule]

I always wanted bleeding heart doves.....

Wow! That's a pretty bird! off to google them......

 

[Beekissed]

Looks like someone shot it with a pellet gun....

 

[flowerbug]

Looks like someone shot it with a pellet gun....

or a paint ball gun... pretty bird!

 

[flowerbug]

You never had road kill? Or you never processed anything for the meat? haha, you would have a hard time if it were the end of civilization ........ But that's ok. There are reasons why we need industrial raised meat, but I am not one of those reasons. I know how to slaughter and process meat and it doesn't bother me. I do take hogs and lambs to the processor because I don't have the equipment to properly cut up pork chops and lamb chops.

i've only cleaned fish that i caught for eating myself. i could do it if i had to, but it isn't on my list of needed skills at the moment. i have a nice reference book which details how to hang and process a pig. i read through it once, but have no plans to do it myself... would need some pulleys and levers if it was just me here and who'd mess with such a beast anyways? a friend got bit in the nuts a few weeks ago by a sow, he was feeding it some stale bread with one hand and it was impatient and chomped at the other hand which was also holding bread but it missed and got him in the nuts. now, i dunno about you, but a 1200lb pig chomping in my direction isn't something i want to ever experience... said it also had him pinned against a wall for a bit. *shudder*

roadkill close to home i grab and bury because i don't want to smell it in the summer heat. the deer are too big so they get left for the coyotes, crows, turkey vultures or whatever else will eat it. we had one hit at the corner last winter and it's been there feeding crows since it was refrigerated and the wind doesn't often come from that direction there wasn't any need to do anything with it.

the wild turkey that got hit several years ago was quite a mess and i got it picked up right away before it really started to reek. i could barely lift it into the wheelbarrow, it went in a nice spot to feed some strawberry plants in my wild garden. Mom went out later that day and picked up all the feathers because she couldn't stand the idea of them being out there. it was raining so it was wet dead poultry smell she said it was pretty gross and i said "Ayup!" because i hauled that mashed beast to begin with.

 

[baymule]

I don't keep breeding stock. I just buy feeder pigs, happy to support the people who keep breeding stock.

@flowerbug I don't blame you for cleaning up the road kill, it can get pretty stinky. But a fresh deer in the winter? I'd be all over that. LOL

Last summer we had a hog killing party. I couldn't get a slaughter date that wasn't months away, so we did them ourselves. Here's a link to it, if you want to read it, but there are slaughter pictures. Don't look if you don't like to see a pig getting cut up.

https://www.sufficientself.com/threads/baymules-feeder-pigs-2017.15250/

 

[ducks4you]

The farther south you go, the more bugs so they have an easier time scavenging. In southern Tennessee, grandpa had games running free year round living on whatever they found. Always fun looking for eggs. Never ate a 6 week old chicken there u less you wanted to eat feathers. At 3-4 months old, good eats.

I learned from these guys that were buying quail at a chicken auction to skin my chickens. I prefer 2-4 month old roosters to send to "freezer camp" and they skin very easily. No feathers! You just find a place to cut the carcass skin and peel right off

 

[Nyboy]

Bay not that I would ever get a pig. I see baby feeder hogs on CL all the time usually about $75 is that a good price ?