Christmas dinner sorted
Plucked my turkey this evening, nice home reared 14 pounder..
Christmas dinner sorted
Great job isnt it!
When i was at school i had a job plucking fresh turkeys on a farm. Hardest part was hanging them up when they were still flapping like mad.
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Originally posted by NigeEss
Plucked my turkey this evening, nice home reared 14 pounder..
Christmas dinner sorted
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Originally posted by DarrenW
Great job isnt it!
When i was at school i had a job plucking fresh turkeys on a farm. Hardest part was hanging them up when they were still flapping like mad.
They were dead but take a while to stop flapping. As said they were VERY fresh. Probs not allowed to do it now using our method at the time. Bit messy
if the hgeads come off
[Edited on 18/12/08 by DarrenW]
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Originally posted by DarrenW
They were dead but take a while to stop flapping. As said they were VERY fresh. Probs not allowed to do it now using our method at the time. Bit messy if the hgeads come off
[Edited on 18/12/08 by DarrenW]
That's the turkey sorted, I've plucked it and stuffed it so all you have to do is kill it and cook it
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Originally posted by DarrenW
They were dead but take a while to stop flapping. As said they were VERY fresh.
How old was the turkey?
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How old was the turkey?
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Originally posted by omega 24 v6
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How old was the turkey?
As old as it'll ever be now.
I watches a programe last week about british turkey farmers and the average age of our supermarket bought bits was just 14 weeks and they were up to
20-30lbs.
Some hand rearer guy was saying that his birds take 6 months to get to that weight, hence the question
Ah....
They'll be sat in a cage with nowt to do but eat.
Mine was one of six genuine free range birds, all were between 13 and 16lbs. They seem to grow fairly slow at first and in the last two
months shot up.
Very Tasty.
Went well with River Cottage black pud sprouts.........yummmmm
[Edited on 26/12/08 by NigeEss]