As there are so many new visitors to the blog today, I thought it would be useful to take people through our workload on a typical Sunday—our “slow” day. We started by doing the daily animal round of checking all the livestock, letting the poultry out, then feeding and watering the pigs and chickens before [...]
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Tag Archives: Chicken
Champion animals, champion boys
5 August, 2008
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As with the Other Half and I, our two boys were also busy in the lead-up to the Turriff Show, choosing and then training their respective animals for entry in the children’s pet parade. As farm boys, they interpreted the competition rather more widely than “pets” and decided they’d enter livestock instead. The Wee ‘Un [...]
Read moreHow to prepare a chicken dinner
11 May, 2008
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We’re unashamedly “lookist” here on the croft—animals that aren’t sufficiently good looking are eaten. One of our spare Scots Grey cockerels had the misfortune of having a misshapen neck so when the Wombats came to stay on Friday and Saturday, guess who became Saturday night’s dinner? This fellow with his kinked neck…
Read moreChicken brose
5 February, 2008
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Remember the boiled chicken and vegetables I prepared for dinner two nights back? Well, we’re just finishing the last of tonight and it’s final incarnation is as chicken brose. I heated up the jellied stock until it came to the boil, reduced the heat to very low, then stirred in a couple of handfuls of [...]
Read moreSeasonal guide to eating chickens
3 February, 2008
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Let’s imagine for a moment that the world is full of nutters like me, people who keep flocks of dual-purpose chickens, respect the seasonal cycle, and eat their surplus or cull birds. Now that everyone has finished laughing, I want to look at the finer points of how to use traditional breeds of poultry for [...]
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