Promised Land Homestead

No More Turkeys

We finished the last of the turkeys yesterday and things turned out pretty well.  Three of the turkeys had bad spots on their breasts that are either wounds the dog (whom we got rid of this week) inflicted, or they are breast blisters.  It didn't effect the quality of the meat, but they didn't look good for roasting, so we cut them up.  They ranged from 14-18 lbs total.

DW is questioning whether to do turkeys again next year.   If we do it again we probably won't sell any.  We feel a lot of pressure for them to look and taste really good when people are paying money for them, as we should.  We'd just rather grow them for ourselves.  We think we'll probably grow 2-3 birds a year in the hopes that one of them will be good for roasting for Thanksgiving.  If they all die or have breast blisters then we'll just cut them up and buy a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.

Next we have about 10 cockrels to process next weekend and we'll be done until probably early summer.