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You out it like that. I feel bad for giving you a bottle of the experimental firepiss. LOL
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Don't even feel bad about that, that's the smoothest best flavored homemade I've ever had. Your experiment was a success for sure, that stuffs awesome. Gonna have to hide it to keep my wife off of it if I'm going to get any.
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I just put 78 jumbo Italian quail eggs in the incubator, 21 days until hatch.
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no shit somo. damn I wanna come eat at your house! bet them birds is mighty tasty! can we drown em (and us) in a bourbon glaze?
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Jimbo wrote:no shit somo. damn I wanna come eat at your house! bet them birds is mighty tasty! can we drown em (and us) in a bourbon glaze?
Oh hell yeah Jimbo, these are jumbo Italian cotournix quail after hatching they are full size in 6-8 weeks. Yummy.
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I can get them cleaned ready to eat for four or five bucks a piece, I just prefer to grow them myself. The guy I bought the eggs from sells to fine dining establishments all over our part of the Midwest.
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I gotta add PP has got some of the prettiest and biggest I mean freaking huge rabbits. They have got to be 10-15# maybe. I look forward to buying a few for the freezer, going to be some good fryers out of those rabbits and probably nearly a yard of fur per animal. The market for fresh/green fur is good so hopefully some cash both ways for them.
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Man got 370 foot of fence up and a duck pen up this weekend. Thanks for the help somo. Gota get a chicken coop up. For the chickens the wife is bringing home. If she gets home. Vehicles troubles have her stuck a few hours away. Where we have had the animals at. That's another story.


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yum, Peking duck on the hoof
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Jimbo wrote:yum, Peking duck on the hoof
You got that right Jimbo and I got them for free and passed them on to farmer PP. We call that diversifying the poultryfolio.
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Don't know about farmer pp. I'm more like Oliver Wendell Douglas. Without the suit. Just glad the wife ain't like Lisa Douglas.
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If you were married to Eva Gabor, your homestead (estate) would have a 20,000 sq ft house on it with 10 ranch hands raising your Peking Duckies (who will regularly be found swimming in your lavish heated marble pool) and Swedish Quails, or whatever them 5 buck delicious critters are SOMO raises.

"Poultryfolio" :lol: Thats good. You guys are making me want to raise some birds!
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Jimbo wrote:If you were married to Eva Gabor, your homestead (estate) would have a 20,000 sq ft house on it with 10 ranch hands raising your Peking Duckies (who will regularly be found swimming in your lavish heated marble pool) and Swedish Quails, or whatever them 5 buck delicious critters are SOMO raises.

"Poultryfolio" :lol: Thats good. You guys are making me want to raise some birds!
You should Jimbo great way to dispose of those grains and must etc. you get to eat and drink your hard work, after all those quail and bourbon glaze sounds good, grilled bacon wrapped asparagus and rosemary red potatoes, yummm.
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Bacon wrapped everything! Even the quail... http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emer ... ecipe.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Sorry P, yummy birdy talk got the best of me..... back on topic..... you raisin them ducks for meat or eggs?
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Jimbo wrote:Bacon wrapped everything! Even the quail... http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emer ... ecipe.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Sorry P, yummy birdy talk got the best of me..... back on topic..... you raisin them ducks for meat or eggs?
That recipe looks good may have to try it, Jimbo that fits right in with topic all about homegrown yummy goodness.
So P, eggs, meat what's the plan?
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Speaking of home grown goodness, good Lord you should see the size of my taters this year, ridiculous. Some of them are like a 16" softball size. Mild and wetter summer than usual must be what taters like. Or maybe its the lime, compost and 20/20/20 I put down? Buttery sweet flesh too. Best taters I ever grew.
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Jimbo wrote:Speaking of home grown goodness, good Lord you should see the size of my taters this year, ridiculous. Some of them are like a 16" softball size. Mild and wetter summer than usual must be what taters like. Or maybe its the lime, compost and 20/20/20 I put down? Buttery sweet flesh too. Best taters I ever grew.
My reds are that way too, I was told it was the hard winter all the snow packed tons of nitrogen into the ground coupled with all that wonderful summer rain. Makes everything grow so well.
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SoMo wrote:
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SoMo wrote: Haha suckers I got some Firepiss from the man himself, that's like Picasso handing you a signed framed painting
Haha well put. Lucky Bastard ;)
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Made a great friend and got to help an awesome family, Firepiss was an unexpected bonus. That is the best homemade I've ever had, I take that back, best likker I've ever had. I mixed a shot with a shot of the Panella rum oh my god good.
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Plans for the ducks? Well it seams as if there are two females and one male. The male and one of the females are acting like they are bonding. And pushing the other female away. So I think we are gona eat the one female. And see what happens with the other two. And go from there. LOL
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Arentcha glad we don't do that with humans? Then again...

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T-Pee wrote:Arentcha glad we don't do that with humans? Then again...

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2 Females and 1 Male? I see no problem.... Hell who am I kidding, I can barely deal with/afford/tolerate/(insert appropriate verb) one.
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I was referring to the
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this is the awesome part of this hobby. and this forum.
wow :crazy:
we have that kinda (friend/construction) community here, but of course the hobby is on the down low. nobody but me on the shine end...mind you northern alberta is a BIG place.
wish i was there for fencin and pennin'... we have an informal Fred & Franks Fancy fencin' (and barn buildin, and decking, and house siding...etc.etc...) be right in there in my wheelhouse.
amazing what 3 friends, 24 beer, couple a great ladies crankin out chow to keep the motors running can get done in a day.
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HDNB wrote:this is the awesome part of this hobby. and this forum.
wow :crazy:
we have that kinda (friend/construction) community here, but of course the hobby is on the down low. nobody but me on the shine end...mind you northern alberta is a BIG place.
wish i was there for fencin and pennin'... we have an informal Fred & Franks Fancy fencin' (and barn buildin, and decking, and house siding...etc.etc...) be right in there in my wheelhouse.
amazing what 3 friends, 24 beer, couple a great ladies crankin out chow to keep the motors running can get done in a day.
nothing like getting a good sweat on out in the yard with trustred friends.
Bro you summed it up perfectly,we came together because of a shared hobby, but the brotherhood and friendship is far greater than just one shared interest. To help another for no benefit but to help, is the greatest gift we can give to ourselves, and to others for we are far greater than the sum of our parts.
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Well my first eggs are starting to hatch, oh happy day. Once again the happiest times can be centered around the simplest things.
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You know it TB, wife's calling them chicken nuggets.
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The wife got 4 of the goats 2 dogs and 10 chickens home. All we have left are the 4 goat bucks. She couldn't fit them in. And they were stinking. Good thing because I didn't get their pin done. Before I started working on a rabbit/chicken barn.
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