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Biologically speaking, most immature mammals are cute, at least to their parents.
In the field, I've eaten kangaroo rat roasted over dried cow chips but I'd come close to starving before I'd eat lamb. Cute or not, I just don't like the taste.
I raised chickens as a kid and loved them but I say as fact by the age of 11 when a hen stopped laying I could use a hatchet and chopping block, 3 legged cast iron of boiling water, a good knife and prepare them for my mom to pick pin feathers from in the kitchen before we ate chicken and dumplings. And now with all the oversized/to fat fryers in the stores it is time to take up the practice again. 6 lb fryers want turn on my spit on the gas grill. It's pitifull what has become of the poultry industry.
I raised chickens as a kid and loved them but I say as fact by the age of 11 when a hen stopped laying I could use a hatchet and chopping block, 3 legged cast iron of boiling water, a good knife and prepare them for my mom to pick pin feathers from in the kitchen before we ate chicken and dumplings. And now with all the oversized/to fat fryers in the stores it is time to take up the practice again. 6 lb fryers want turn on my spit on the gas grill. It's pitifull what has become of the poultry industry.
fryers are 3-4 lbs
roasters are 5-8 lbs
try a cornish game hen for the rotisserrie-they are good!
try a cornish game hen for the rotisserrie-they are good!
They are even cuter (on the rotisserie. )
I can't find old fashioned 3 lb fryers at any market now.
I think when Cornish x Rock replaced New Hampshire Reds as the dominant breeding for the fryer market we lost quality big time.
My dad hunted and fished all the time and we ate whatever he caught; my cousin would rather eat wild meat than anything and our son in law used to go hunting a couple of times a year (not so much anymore) I grew up in a family where some raised chickens and dad raised rabbits. As long as I am not the one that has to kill it, I am fine. I did have a lot of trouble with rabbits for awhile. I had a pet one, of course, but she was just a rabbit to use for breeding and dad would slaughter her babies. One Sunday, mom fried a rabbit for dinner. Daddy proceeded to tell me, it was one on Bonnie's babies. I couldn't eat rabbit for years. To this day I have no idea if it was one of her babies or not.
My dad hunted and fished all the time and we ate whatever he caught; my cousin would rather eat wild meat than anything and our son in law used to go hunting a couple of times a year (not so much anymore) I grew up in a family where some raised chickens and dad raised rabbits. As long as I am not the one that has to kill it, I am fine. I did have a lot of trouble with rabbits for awhile. I had a pet one, of course, but she was just a rabbit to use for breeding and dad would slaughter her babies. One Sunday, mom fried a rabbit for dinner. Daddy proceeded to tell me, it was one on Bonnie's babies. I couldn't eat rabbit for years. To this day I have no idea if it was one of her babies or not.
i think this was quite common in years past,,,i remember my brother and i use to name the cows on my grandfathers farm,,,,and he would say- you might be eating them one day, dont get too attached
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