JohnL............havent snuffed a chicken in over 40 years. Occasionally I go partridge hunting and make a nice stew but the whole method isnt something I would write about on this forum. If you have the right paper work (which I have) you can take the birds to an abatoire? for a couple a bucks a bird it comes back in a bag. Do I save any money…..........probably not but I know what I am eating, the birds get a better life and I like the look and sound, even the smells of farming.
Bob......I have a small natural pond back in the woods but it dries up in late summer. As a kid, I hated fish but now it my favorite food, or at least one of them and here are a few of my personal observations. I like fishing for the sport (generally a live release). I have noticed that pond trout dont have the same taste as river trout and or lake trout. pond trout have a “dusty, muddy kinda taste where wild trout taste like they should. I quit buying the rainbow trout at Costco because they taste muddy. there are many rivers here with small creeks where the brown trout, speckles and brooks abound and the taste…...perfect.
Horsetail…...........the first pig I ever bought was a “piglet”, cute little fella that I got for cheap because it had a hernia. I gave the farmer and extra 30 bucks for feed and told him the date I would return to pick up my piglet which was 3 months down the line
Three months later I arrive at this farm and much to my surprise the piglet was now a huge pig. I was astonished at how fast those suckers grow. it was almost cow size. Even more surprising was the fact that it was alive and kicking because it was supposed be “ready for the BBQ”. The farmer was gone and his wife (a rather large woman) told me to put it in the car????. I drove a VW beetle back then and was picturing my brother and I with a 200 pound living pig in the back seat. I questioned her wisdom but she assured me that “they” do it all the time.
Well, the pig didnt want to go in the back seat any more then I wanted him in the back seat. No amount of coaxing would suffice, not food, not a stick and the rope we tied around its neck to pull it the back seat only gave our hands rope burn because that 200 pound pig was way stronger then we were and the whole tug a war event just pissed the pig off. Now I’ve got a 200 pound angry pig.
My brother and I decided to “hog tie” it (pardon the pun) so he grabbed the hind legs, the pig pulled him to the ground and then procedded to tow him through all that manure and the whole while I am trying to hog tie a pig that is angry and screaming at a decible level which should have caused ear damage. I did manage to hog tie the pig but my brothers hands were now tied to the screaming pig and the whole noise level was a little to much for this boy to handle so I left the angry pig with brother tied to to it and went and got some fresh air…............at that point my brother was screaming as loud, maybe even louder then the pig.
We eventually got the pig tied down and into the back seat where it enever stopped screaming and just seconds after pulling into my mothers driveway, out came Mom screaming bloody murder about the screaming pig in her front yard.
It took almost 20 years before I enjoyed pork again. That gave me an insight into things I never really wanted insight into?
-- Central northish Ontario
