Can I eat this??

[Blackbird]

Hehe.

He's FINE!
Well. I guess I'll see if he's 'fine' when I take a bite. I have him bagged up and in the freezer, when I go back to my apt. he's coming with!

 

[valmom]

You'll be fine! Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and all that I do believe in challenging my immune system. I don't think all the sterilization of everything is necessarily a good thing.

What a handsome bird. I'd be saving some of those beautiful feathers.

 

[Beekissed]

Is it normal for turkey meat to be so dark??

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Wild turkeys are much darker than store bought and I would guess that free range are somewhat darker as well. Sort of how dark regular chickens are compared to the very young, light pink CX.

But...this turkey didn't get to bleed out well either, so this could be a contributing factor, you think?

 

[Blackbird]

I'm sure the light didn't help with that, but he is a bit darker than your common CX chicken, yes. He is a Bourbon Red so maybe that has something to do with it too?

 

[FarmerDenise]

Hey BB, if you are really concerned, you could always cook some if him up for your Dad.

 

[Blackbird]

Hehe! I love your thinking!

Actually, I'm not concerned, I know what's gone into the bird, the area in lived in, the floor it died on (which was pretty clean, all things considered), I know what it was healthy, all things considered, when it died. That's the great thing about raising your own animals.

Remind me to throw out that package of store-bought hamburger in the freezer my sister bought me when I get back.

Actually, I'll probably use it for something, don't want to be wasteful.

Edited to add, that I'd feel far safer eating this turkey even if it had been sitting out in the heat all day, than I would feel eating that package of hamburger.

 

[FarmerDenise]

Hehe! I love your thinking!

Actually, I'm not concerned, I know what's gone into the bird, the area in lived in, the floor it died on (which was pretty clean, all things considered), I know what it was healthy, all things considered, when it died. That's the great thing about raising your own animals.

Remind me to throw out that package of store-bought hamburger in the freezer my sister bought me when I get back.

Actually, I'll probably use it for something, don't want to be wasteful.

Edited to add, that I'd feel far safer eating this turkey even if it had been sitting out in the heat all day, than I would feel eating that package of hamburger.

I would too. Nothing wrong with road kill. So what could really be wrong with your dead turkey...
We got a sick chicken in the house tonight. If it was just me, I would butcher it, check it's innards and if they looked ok, I'd eat it. But SO has a hard time just eating the birds that we butchered... He actually made me take him to the store and buy, I said BUY, meat today We have our two refridgerator freezers full of venison, chicken, turkey and elk and He had to BUY meat ... I give up

 

[Blackbird]

Maybe you need to cook something up that he CAN'T resist using that fresh game, then tell him that he can't eat it, because the meat isn't store-bought.

My dad rarely drinks the goat milk, and insists that he needs storebought milk. That is just one of the absurdities and contradictions about him. I couldn't possibly explain it all without stabbing something, so I'll leave it at that.

 

[FarmerDenise]

He loves making venison jerkey and it really is super.
He is just weird, that way....One minute he loves the home grown stuff, the next he wants the store stuff and despises anything not purchased