Today we processed five of our six Broad Breasted White turkeys (is that sexist or racist?). We ended up with a whole 16 pound roaster, 6 pounds of ground turkey, 25 pounds of Breakfast sausage and over 30 pounds of whole breasts which we cure as hams.
Admittedly, we spent $119 in feed (5-50# bags) and $45 for the five day olds ($9 each), but the final product value of those five birds is almost twice the investment. The sixth bird is for Thanksgiving and should weigh in at about 35 to 40 pounds by then. We typically process our turkeys once they have consumed 50# of feed each as the are between 16 and 20 pounds dressed out at that stage.
Turkeys, broilers and goats seem to be the last home raised livestock that can be raised and processed for less than store cost. Used to do pigs but piglets went to $150 and feed costs went out of site! Fortunately hay is still affordable as a result of goat kid sales... this allows us to be able to raise two beef each year. Just thought I'd share how we manage to make ends meet her
Oh nomifyle, I feel your pain! We saw mouse signs in our pantry a few weeks ago. In that time I've been going through everything not in cans and jars, and pitched one bag of beans, a few bags of Knorr noodles & sauce, a small bag of salt of all things (I shrink wrapped it prior), and half a dozen pkgs of pasta. Unthankful mouse didn't eat much of anything, just nibbled a hole and left a mess. Terrible waste of food.I've got the commodities all sorted and now I have to figure out where to put them.
DH caught a big fat rat in the pantry room last night, he's been eating stuff in packages, he ate almost 4 whole packages of green lima beans that I had not put in jars. Of course, I threw out what was left in the packages. I bought some more and they are in the freezer to be vacuum sealed in jars. During the pandemic I could not find dried green lima beans. I saw that rat run out of the kitchen and into the pantry room the night before.
The weather is crazy, it will be 100 on Thursday and at night it will be 72. Next Thursday it will be 84 and 58 at night. The tree I see out my office window has almost dead leaves on it. The trees further out has faded looking leaves. It won't be long. Winter is coming.
All the wild pigs that DH had in the pig pen got out. He'd had 3 of them in there for the last several months. But he's got a nice pig trap so he'll probably catch more. He had 5 and then caught 4 more giving him 9 and now he has none. They broke through a fence.
DH has nice live mouse traps, but for these suckers he used squirl traps because they were to large to going the mouse traps. This last fat one DH said was female. He shoots them.Oh nomifyle, I feel your pain! We saw mouse signs in our pantry a few weeks ago. In that time I've been going through everything not in cans and jars, and pitched one bag of beans, a few bags of Knorr noodles & sauce, a small bag of salt of all things (I shrink wrapped it prior), and half a dozen pkgs of pasta. Unthankful mouse didn't eat much of anything, just nibbled a hole and left a mess. Terrible waste of food.
I needed to reorganize our pantry anyhow. Sigh. Everything not in a can or jar is now going into plastic containers (from Walmart and Amazon, mostly Amazon), or jars which I have plenty of. It could have been worse, I guess.
Traps are now in the kitchen, utility room, and pantry room. It's not over yet, we got a small one last evening. We just have to figure out how they're getting in, I'm guessing a door isn't sealed as tightly as we thought. We go through this every few years, this time just caught us by surprise. Guessing the drought followed by heavy rain pushed them inside.
During the pandemic I could not find dried green lima beans
We are battling the heat also Sherree. YUK! I have not planted lettuce but everything else collards etc are up but seem to be handling the heat. Maybe because of the cool nights?
Walmart.com has the dried green limas at a decent price, well decent as far as prices go nowadays.Dried GREEN lima beans are the only dry bean that Cary likes when I cook them straight from the bag. I have not been able to find them anywhere we shop for groceries, before, or after Covid. I'd love to have some to store in my freezer. Maybe, one day, I'll be able to get all the dry beans I've bought recently canned. I'm running out of room. I now have 72 pints of canned ground beef. I'm gonna do one more case, and I'll be done canning ground beef. The rest will just have to stay in the freezers. I'll can up another case as we eat up a case.
Walmart.com has the dried green limas at a decent price, well decent as far as prices go nowadays.
Nomifyle, do you get the injections into your spine????Knee braces work wonders for keeping the knee stablized.
My knee is a lot better but I'm not taking any chances when I go somewhere I wear my knee brace. My knee is better but my back is giving me fits. No telling when I'll actually get to ortho where I can get a shot.
Praying for you, Judy!Knee braces work wonders for keeping the knee stablized.
My knee is a lot better but I'm not taking any chances when I go somewhere I wear my knee brace. My knee is better but my back is giving me fits. No telling when I'll actually get to ortho where I can get a shot.
I've had no injections, yet. Except that one shot I had a couple of weeks ago, its an anti inflamatory for pain and I can never remember the name of it. It seems to have helped, I can get it every three months.Nomifyle, do you get the injections into your spine????
I am not sure I could deal with that!!!! The thought of it scares me to death!!!!!! I am the same when I think about shots IN MY EYE....
I have several friends who have had this......I just can't imagine how they could POSSIBLY hold still and allow someone to put a NEEDLE in your EYE!!!!!
This is the same one I'm taking only I take a heaping scoop once a day to save money. I should probably start giving it to DH. He's almost 79. A couple of week ago I started adding DE to the same cup of coffee.DH and I both use collagen powder everyday.. twice a day..we add a scoop(size of a coffee scoop) to our coffee or tea., morning and early evening....we have been using it since 2014..we are both in our 70s and this stuff really helps....
DH is still working full time at a tractor dealership..he goes out in fields a repairs equipment..often down on the ground working under it..not bad at his age...he has no plans to quit working any time soon.
..it is Amino acids..pure protein..every cell in the body needs it...the joints really need it..it is not just for hair and nails..it helps to rebuild joints.and other cells in the body..an eye doctor told me that your eyes are 90 per cent collagen.. after water it is the largest component of the body..
I am 75 almost 76 and I can still fold one leg up over the other...at 75 I have lost 75 per cent of my body's production of collagen...so I use this powder to replace it. You lose 1and half per cent of your collagen production per year after age 25..
We use the green can powder from Great Lakes and Custom Collagen..we use the one made from grass fed beef..
We always buy the bulk packages because they are cheaper...get the brand that is the best price when we reorder..
This stuff works for us...it also helps you recover from injuries quicker..
The one I like the best is an old one by Homedics, but they don't make it any more, its a wrap around. I have two other wrap arounds that do help, I got them both at walmart. I have the sleeve type that the VA gave me 4 years ago, but I've gained 40 pounds since then and they do not fit.What type of knee brace do you use? I have used a wrap type and compression sleeves.
Tried hyaluronic acid injections and it gave a little relief. Cortisone injections help for at least 3 months and aren't painful for me at all.
It's been over a year since last injections. Need to make appointment for new xrays and injections.
Yes, but the food is so much better than the store.Today we processed five of our six Broad Breasted White turkeys (is that sexist or racist?). We ended up with a whole 16 pound roaster, 6 pounds of ground turkey, 25 pounds of Breakfast sausage and over 30 pounds of whole breasts which we cure as hams.
Admittedly, we spent $119 in feed (5-50# bags) and $45 for the five day olds ($9 each), but the final product value of those five birds is almost twice the investment. The sixth bird is for Thanksgiving and should weigh in at about 35 to 40 pounds by then. We typically process our turkeys once they have consumed 50# of feed each as they are between 16 and 20 pounds dressed out at that stage.
Turkeys, broilers and goats seem to be the last home raised livestock that can be raised and processed for less than store cost. Used to do pigs but piglets went to $150 and feed costs went out of site! Fortunately hay is still affordable as a result of goat kid sales... this allows us to be able to raise two beef each year. Just thought I'd share some of how we manage to make ends meet here.