What Happens To The Rest of The Bird?
Backyard Chickens & Coturnix Quail: Incubating Hatching Eggs and Chicken Breeding
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What really happens to the rest of the bird after processing? In this episode of the Poultry Nerds Podcast, Carey and Jennifer dive deep into nose-to-tail poultry utilization—breaking down how quail, chickens, turkeys, and even manure can be used with little to no waste.
From feeding pigs and dogs, making dehydrated pet treats, bone broth, schmaltz, bone meal, compost, garden fertilizer, and even crafts and jewelry—this episode pulls back the curtain on sustainable, homestead-style poultry processing. You’ll learn how to turn a single bird into food, supplements, soil improvement, and long-term value instead of waste.
Whether you raise quail, chickens, turkeys, or just want to be a more intentional poultry keeper, this episode will completely change how you look at “the rest of the bird.”
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WEBVTT 00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:42.280 Welcome back Poultry nerds. 00:00:43.179 --> 00:00:51.250 Today for this episode, we're gonna answer a question that some of you may have asked. 00:00:52.240 --> 00:01:00.460 Some of you may have not, but I guarantee you when you read the title of this week's podcast, you were like. 00:01:02.170 --> 00:01:04.120 What really did happen to the rest of the bird? 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:06.370 Where did it go? 00:01:07.329 --> 00:01:13.120 You know, what you think about it and what does everybody do with the rest? 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:16.900 Not many people talk about what they do with Mount poop more. 00:01:17.890 --> 00:01:27.120 Um, and that's a thing that, people could tune into Quail Mania and see what to do with that. 00:01:27.900 --> 00:01:29.430 But this week. 00:01:30.430 --> 00:01:32.829 Jennifer, what happens to the rest of the bird? 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.170 Oh, I use like every little teeny tiny piece of it. 00:01:38.170 --> 00:01:40.270 Nothing goes to waste around here. 00:01:40.390 --> 00:01:44.469 Do you wanna start with the big birds and go down, or you wanna start with the little birds and go up? 00:01:46.329 --> 00:01:48.519 Okay, so tell me this. 00:01:48.820 --> 00:01:54.640 Everybody knows that quail especially, they're just looking for new ways to go. 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:57.094 So what? 00:01:57.099 --> 00:01:57.469 What? 00:01:57.530 --> 00:02:07.849 You know when you, let's say you walk through in the morning and you say hi to all of'em and everything's good and you come back an hour later and one of'em just laying over. 00:02:09.019 --> 00:02:09.740 What do you do with it? 00:02:10.550 --> 00:02:12.199 Well, that one, we'd be pig food. 00:02:13.219 --> 00:02:14.150 We have pigs. 00:02:15.230 --> 00:02:16.280 You have pigs. 00:02:16.939 --> 00:02:18.829 Those ones would be pig food. 00:02:18.829 --> 00:02:23.480 If you don't know what's wrong with it, then you don't want to eat it. 00:02:23.659 --> 00:02:26.329 And quite honestly, the pigs are pretty smart. 00:02:26.780 --> 00:02:30.199 If there's something really wrong with it, they won't eat it either. 00:02:30.699 --> 00:02:34.360 Um, are all pigs that smart? 00:02:35.469 --> 00:02:37.454 My pigs are, you have dumb pig pigs. 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:41.319 I've never seen my pigs not eat anything. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:43.159 I have. 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:44.810 I like much everything. 00:02:44.810 --> 00:02:48.740 I, I give them this edible isn't there tomorrow. 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:52.339 Mine do not like mice. 00:02:52.490 --> 00:02:53.240 They won't eat'em. 00:02:54.889 --> 00:02:57.050 Not even little babies that I throw out there. 00:02:57.259 --> 00:02:59.750 They don't like'em like after they're dead. 00:03:00.740 --> 00:03:03.740 No, like still screaming because I threw'em out in the cold. 00:03:04.430 --> 00:03:04.879 They won't. 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:06.139 She just walks right by him. 00:03:06.139 --> 00:03:06.889 She doesn't care. 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:09.740 But okay. 00:03:09.740 --> 00:03:11.615 So I was thinking, okay, so don't eat a rat. 00:03:12.394 --> 00:03:13.324 Yeah, don't eat a rat. 00:03:13.355 --> 00:03:14.884 That's like the only thing then. 00:03:16.805 --> 00:03:25.925 So yeah, pigs are pretty much like easy to please, but um, they like all the eggs. 00:03:26.074 --> 00:03:28.355 Um, they do get tired of egg shells. 00:03:28.355 --> 00:03:29.254 I will say this. 00:03:29.254 --> 00:03:32.314 They'll start sucking the egg out and spitting the shells out. 00:03:32.314 --> 00:03:33.125 It's pretty cool. 00:03:33.305 --> 00:03:35.615 It's kind of like us eating sunflower seeds. 00:03:36.384 --> 00:03:39.834 So they'll, they'll suck an egg and, and then spit the shell back out. 00:03:39.985 --> 00:03:58.915 But like when they do that to a quail egg, you know, you got this 3 50, 400 ish pound pig and they pick up, you know, like one of the, even a 1215 gram quail egg, it's like half dollar ish size ish. 00:03:59.904 --> 00:04:01.975 And you're like, okay, it is just fixing to eat it. 00:04:02.615 --> 00:04:05.375 And then you start hearing all this weird sucking sound. 00:04:05.430 --> 00:04:07.500 And then show comes back. 00:04:07.500 --> 00:04:12.420 I'm like, well, I guess you got enough calcium, so yours do it too. 00:04:12.540 --> 00:04:12.810 Yes. 00:04:12.810 --> 00:04:13.620 It's not just mine. 00:04:14.189 --> 00:04:14.279 Mm-hmm. 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.149 You give them some big old eggs, like chicken eggs or something. 00:04:18.149 --> 00:04:18.569 Yeah. 00:04:18.810 --> 00:04:20.970 They'll crunch'em like on the tip. 00:04:21.250 --> 00:04:23.470 It's pretty interesting really to watch on. 00:04:23.470 --> 00:04:26.800 Look, they'll sound like a toddler eating a bag of chips. 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:27.579 Yes. 00:04:28.180 --> 00:04:29.410 Just crunching away. 00:04:30.009 --> 00:04:33.160 But then you'll, when they leave, you've got a trail of shells. 00:04:33.730 --> 00:04:34.089 Yeah. 00:04:34.540 --> 00:04:34.810 Yeah. 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:36.189 And then the ducks come. 00:04:36.490 --> 00:04:39.745 I was say, then ducks or chickens come and they're like, Ooh, what is this? 00:04:41.139 --> 00:04:42.399 And they got pull'em all up. 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.529 So it wasn't there a while ago, so let me try it. 00:04:44.529 --> 00:04:44.620 Mm-hmm. 00:04:45.790 --> 00:04:47.050 Oh yeah, I need some calcium. 00:04:48.069 --> 00:04:54.160 So my thought process behind this was more like, what do we do with the rest of the bird? 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:57.964 Not necessarily just feed the pigs with it but I mean, that's the place to start. 00:04:58.204 --> 00:05:05.794 It is a place to start because you know you're feeding them and that's less purchased feed that you have to feed them. 00:05:06.574 --> 00:05:07.024 Yeah. 00:05:07.115 --> 00:05:09.009 And because they're so, and quail do just. 00:05:10.745 --> 00:05:11.404 Pop off. 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:12.099 Mm-hmm. 00:05:12.180 --> 00:05:12.579 Outta nowhere. 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:15.154 One minute they're hopping around acting fine. 00:05:15.154 --> 00:05:15.844 Next minute. 00:05:16.414 --> 00:05:20.375 You know, they had a heart attack'cause they didn't like the way one stared at'em or something. 00:05:20.375 --> 00:05:21.514 So yeah. 00:05:21.724 --> 00:05:27.064 Pigs are a convenience if you can have them. 00:05:27.495 --> 00:05:30.284 'Cause they're basically garbage disposals. 00:05:30.384 --> 00:05:32.189 But my, and if you like bacon. 00:05:33.189 --> 00:05:35.534 Mm, I made an appointment at the processor today. 00:05:35.944 --> 00:05:36.365 But yeah. 00:05:36.544 --> 00:05:42.214 So let's talk about what I do with the quail versus like necessarily just throwing'em over the fence. 00:05:42.754 --> 00:05:53.204 So if we process a quail, I was gonna say, let's say like, you know, you've got your grow out is selection day. 00:05:53.985 --> 00:05:56.099 You pick out the lucky ones that made the cut. 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:03.659 The ones that went into the other barrel, they're the ones that you're going to do what with? 00:06:05.474 --> 00:06:08.774 Okay, so you, I skin them. 00:06:08.834 --> 00:06:19.245 I am not going to spend the time plucking them, and I know some people are gonna gasp and grasp their pearls, but I am a Skinner and. 00:06:20.004 --> 00:06:29.334 I do keep a bucket when I'm processing and the head will go into one basket because I keep that. 00:06:29.904 --> 00:06:29.995 Mm-hmm. 00:06:30.235 --> 00:06:33.175 The skin with the feathers goes into the pig bucket. 00:06:33.564 --> 00:06:35.305 The legs go in. 00:06:36.479 --> 00:06:41.069 Well, let's just, okay, so you've got it skinned at this point, right? 00:06:41.069 --> 00:06:45.060 So the wings go into a basket, the heads go into a basket. 00:06:45.495 --> 00:06:48.029 The now the wings, you cut the wing off. 00:06:48.149 --> 00:06:48.240 Mm-hmm. 00:06:48.539 --> 00:06:56.704 Before any feathers come off cut the wing off right at the body, you are gonna set that aside and do something with it later. 00:06:57.064 --> 00:06:59.854 Like those, you go in the. 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:02.639 I call it a jerky machine. 00:07:03.029 --> 00:07:04.169 So let's visualize. 00:07:04.169 --> 00:07:07.019 I've got two buckets, okay? 00:07:07.019 --> 00:07:09.419 And I've got three baskets, I think. 00:07:09.870 --> 00:07:11.370 And so head. 00:07:12.930 --> 00:07:16.050 How I do it is head and then I drain them. 00:07:16.529 --> 00:07:18.240 So head goes in one basket. 00:07:18.569 --> 00:07:18.659 Mm-hmm. 00:07:18.899 --> 00:07:24.129 And then once they're drained and they're still, then it's wing, wing. 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:24.849 Foot. 00:07:24.849 --> 00:07:25.329 Foot. 00:07:25.689 --> 00:07:26.139 Okay. 00:07:26.139 --> 00:07:26.229 Right. 00:07:26.379 --> 00:07:26.919 Or kneecap. 00:07:26.919 --> 00:07:29.019 Kneecap, however you wanna look at it with the scissors. 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:30.459 So, wing, kneecap. 00:07:30.459 --> 00:07:31.599 Kneecap, okay. 00:07:31.599 --> 00:07:36.310 The wings go into a basket, the feet go into a basket. 00:07:36.754 --> 00:07:37.144 Yep. 00:07:37.324 --> 00:07:42.754 Then they are skinned into the feathers in the skin. 00:07:42.754 --> 00:07:43.954 Go in the pig bucket. 00:07:45.274 --> 00:07:52.654 Then I cut out the spine into another basket, gets its own basket. 00:07:53.709 --> 00:07:56.319 When you pull the spine out, that's called spatch. 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:57.039 Caulking. 00:07:57.194 --> 00:07:57.485 Okay. 00:07:57.490 --> 00:08:04.629 'cause you can lay the, the breastbone open that way, and when you do that, the insides come out. 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:07.419 So it's not having a spineless quail. 00:08:08.524 --> 00:08:10.774 So the spines are in another basket. 00:08:11.344 --> 00:08:32.445 Then the insides, what we do is take the intestines and those go in the pig bucket, but the heart, the liver, the lungs the gizzard go with the breast meat into the cold water, the ice water. 00:08:32.875 --> 00:08:33.205 Yeah. 00:08:33.805 --> 00:08:34.134 Okay. 00:08:34.794 --> 00:08:36.055 And that's how we do it. 00:08:36.235 --> 00:08:47.455 And so we've taken this bird that a lot of people would think would be wasteful, and we've turned it into a hundred percent usefulness. 00:08:47.784 --> 00:08:50.995 So the pigs get some treats, right? 00:08:51.534 --> 00:08:55.555 The spine, the wings, the feet, and the head. 00:08:56.715 --> 00:09:08.774 And sometimes you might have to rinse the head off a little bit, but they all go into a dehydrator and for 24 hours, um, I think mine is set at 125 degrees. 00:09:09.404 --> 00:09:11.294 Um, it, the head is pretty dense. 00:09:11.294 --> 00:09:15.434 It does take a little bit longer, but the wings don't typically take that long. 00:09:15.434 --> 00:09:19.784 Um, but when they're done, you've got. 00:09:20.394 --> 00:09:27.205 Pet treats that you can't buy any more clean for your dog. 00:09:27.664 --> 00:09:34.595 And things that you weren't gonna eat anyway, you were never gonna eat the spine, but your dog's gonna love it and it's gonna be great for his teeth. 00:09:34.674 --> 00:09:34.975 Yeah. 00:09:34.975 --> 00:09:35.840 And he didn't cook it. 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:36.279 I was gonna say that. 00:09:37.064 --> 00:09:38.414 That's not something I'm eating. 00:09:38.774 --> 00:09:40.125 And you didn't cook it. 00:09:40.424 --> 00:09:40.514 Mm-hmm. 00:09:40.754 --> 00:09:43.605 So the bones are still good to give to the dog, right? 00:09:44.095 --> 00:09:48.985 The wings, you can do arts and crafts with them. 00:09:49.254 --> 00:09:51.924 You can make cat toys out of them. 00:09:52.194 --> 00:09:54.654 You can train bird dogs with them. 00:09:55.324 --> 00:09:58.054 The, it's an endless, endless thing. 00:09:58.264 --> 00:10:01.894 I've seen them, I've seen people use pieces of wings to make jewelry with. 00:10:03.870 --> 00:10:07.769 And at first I was like, that's kinda weird. 00:10:09.149 --> 00:11:05.149 But then I had a friend of the show who makes stuff like send me a package and there's a pair of earrings in it. 00:11:06.169 --> 00:11:07.279 And my wife liked them. 00:11:07.330 --> 00:11:10.299 And she wasn't really weirded out when I told her what they were. 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:20.110 Um, a lot of people take the skulls if you can figure out how to clean the skulls, and I think that takes those beetles. 00:11:20.529 --> 00:11:26.830 I don't particularly have, those beetles don't really intend to get the beetles, but they're bone cleaning beetles. 00:11:26.830 --> 00:11:27.394 I don't know what they're called. 00:11:28.424 --> 00:11:39.585 But you can drop them in there and they will clean them out, and then they put them in a resin and make necklaces and all kinds of stuff out of them. 00:11:41.534 --> 00:11:41.805 Yeah. 00:11:41.909 --> 00:11:56.205 I, I like jewelry as much as the next person, but I gotta say if I saw someone wearing a quail skull as a necklace. 00:11:58.144 --> 00:12:04.115 That would definitely take the most unique thing I've seen today. 00:12:04.115 --> 00:12:04.654 Award. 00:12:06.065 --> 00:12:08.105 Well, you need to spend more time on Etsy. 00:12:09.105 --> 00:12:15.435 No, I don't because that's like spending time on Amazon or Lowe's. 00:12:16.774 --> 00:12:17.279 Oh, okay. 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:17.639 Gotcha. 00:12:17.970 --> 00:12:18.690 It gets expensive. 00:12:19.049 --> 00:12:22.649 So I have tried all of the ways to clean the skulls. 00:12:22.740 --> 00:12:22.830 Mm-hmm. 00:12:23.460 --> 00:12:26.070 Because I don't have the beetles. 00:12:26.389 --> 00:12:29.000 I saw somebody say, you can put'em in an ant hill. 00:12:29.180 --> 00:12:34.519 So I took some pieces of hardware cloth and folded them in half and stuck them in an ant heel. 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:34.700 Yeah. 00:12:34.700 --> 00:12:35.480 That didn't work. 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:35.659 No. 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:46.180 Um, I stuck, I stuck a pig skull in a, trough and the dogs ate it, so that didn't work. 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:56.340 The quail skulls, I've also tried cleaning them myself, but I end up breaking the jaw hinge, but doesn't work. 00:12:57.340 --> 00:12:57.970 It can go. 00:12:58.990 --> 00:13:10.690 Okay, so I cook the quail and, you know, the breast meat and the leg meat like you normally would, and then you're left with the bones. 00:13:11.049 --> 00:13:15.009 At that point, you could make a broth. 00:13:15.060 --> 00:13:18.299 I didn't ever find, find it worth the trouble. 00:13:18.450 --> 00:13:24.389 If you just liked a milder flavored broth, you could just put it in a pot. 00:13:24.450 --> 00:13:31.830 I use my instant pot like on a daily basis and put'em in there with a bunch of water and make a broth. 00:13:32.370 --> 00:13:35.019 Now here's the really cool thing that you could do. 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:46.710 If you have the dehydrator, once you've cooked it down, like the bones down, you've got the broth out of'em, which makes a bone broth, okay? 00:13:47.070 --> 00:13:47.370 Mm-hmm. 00:13:47.375 --> 00:13:51.600 Which is good for your joints and everything else that bone broth is good for. 00:13:52.259 --> 00:13:55.740 Those bones are gonna be just basically mush, right? 00:13:56.129 --> 00:14:00.539 Put them in your food processor and make a paste out of them. 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:04.139 Then you could put them in the dehydrator. 00:14:04.514 --> 00:14:08.205 To make a bone meal powder. 00:14:09.254 --> 00:14:11.534 And that would be great. 00:14:11.625 --> 00:14:16.835 On your dog food, on your cat food in your garden like bone. 00:14:16.865 --> 00:14:21.414 It's basically bone meal and it's so good for everything. 00:14:21.685 --> 00:14:25.090 I'm gonna say that's like the freshest a fresh bone meal possible. 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:30.230 Right, so you've still got all your minerals that are left, you've not wasted anything. 00:14:30.710 --> 00:14:43.549 And if you really didn't want to go that far, just, you know, make your bone broth and then bury all your bones in your garden and eventually they'll decompose into your soil and make your soil better. 00:14:44.664 --> 00:15:02.634 But if you do all of that, you've taken a, you know, a dollar and a half bird that you have invested in it and you have made, I don't know how many objects I just named off that you, you did with them watts. 00:15:02.935 --> 00:15:03.595 Yes. 00:15:04.014 --> 00:15:10.615 And if you sold some of those pieces, you're, as long as you recoup more than a dollar and a half, I mean, you're into profit territory. 00:15:10.615 --> 00:15:11.004 Right. 00:15:11.865 --> 00:15:14.174 If you use a quail. 00:15:15.174 --> 00:15:16.644 Individually pieced. 00:15:17.004 --> 00:15:19.764 And they're worth a lot more than they are walking around. 00:15:20.875 --> 00:15:22.855 Well, and even still live. 00:15:22.904 --> 00:15:27.075 I compost all the manure and, oh, I bought a new toy. 00:15:27.075 --> 00:15:28.065 I haven't told you yet. 00:15:28.335 --> 00:15:29.745 I bought a manure spreader. 00:15:30.450 --> 00:15:36.960 Because Mount poop more is getting out of control over there, and it's more than I can use in the garden. 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:44.610 And so to regenerate my field for the cows and the goats, you got one that goes on the tractor. 00:15:45.060 --> 00:15:45.899 I did. 00:15:45.899 --> 00:15:49.740 Well, it goes on the, the gator, lemme tell you that is the bet on the Gator. 00:15:50.220 --> 00:15:50.610 Yes. 00:15:50.610 --> 00:15:53.909 You got one that like with a five horse motor on it or something? 00:15:54.360 --> 00:16:06.190 No, it's a, it's got a wheel in it and it works by pulling it, I don't remember the term, David made sure I was ordering the right thing, but it doesn't need the 3.3 point thing. 00:16:06.190 --> 00:16:07.740 Don't need a three point hitch or none of that. 00:16:07.740 --> 00:16:09.570 It just hooks up like a trailer and you. 00:16:09.690 --> 00:16:09.779 Yes. 00:16:10.019 --> 00:16:14.190 Poop in the top and yes, it should, it shipped today. 00:16:14.190 --> 00:16:20.820 So I'm all excited about using that, but I can put that, you know, or we're gonna have to shoot some video for YouTube for that. 00:16:21.180 --> 00:16:21.509 Yep. 00:16:22.180 --> 00:16:31.289 I'm gonna be able to put it like up in the orchard area in the cow pasture to fertilize that because it's nitrogen, so it's. 00:16:31.495 --> 00:16:32.965 Just the green, all in your neighbor's driveway. 00:16:32.965 --> 00:16:37.105 Green in front yard people I hate putting in their yard. 00:16:38.784 --> 00:16:44.725 So I mean, it's going to make my yard, my whole property, like so green in the spring. 00:16:44.995 --> 00:16:46.705 I'm so excited to get that. 00:16:47.245 --> 00:16:52.735 So now you won't have to move your tr you can put your tractors wherever you want to now. 00:16:52.735 --> 00:16:53.485 Mm-hmm. 00:16:53.570 --> 00:16:59.754 Because you don't need the the chickens to spread it as you walk them over your yard. 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:02.930 If you can just, let it dry. 00:17:02.930 --> 00:17:05.329 I'm actually thinking about putting the turkeys in the tractors. 00:17:06.769 --> 00:17:11.240 So I've seen that they do really well in tractors I had. 00:17:11.299 --> 00:17:14.990 So let's our good segue here into the next topic. 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:24.529 So I just had five turkeys processed on Friday, and they have been in one of your Illumina coops for the last, um, three, four weeks or so. 00:17:24.534 --> 00:17:24.704 Mm-hmm. 00:17:24.784 --> 00:17:27.799 Moving across fresh grass, right? 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:28.264 What mm-hmm. 00:17:28.349 --> 00:17:29.899 What's left of the fresh grass. 00:17:29.899 --> 00:17:30.349 Right. 00:17:30.919 --> 00:17:33.859 Um, I mean, you know, where we live, there's. 00:17:33.964 --> 00:17:36.184 It's not a lot growing right now. 00:17:36.184 --> 00:17:48.815 'cause it may be 68 1 day and 28 the next, but, and it's so muddy, so we can move them, you know, where it's drier and stuff, but they did so well. 00:17:49.004 --> 00:17:56.654 We parted them out, so I didn't get dressed weights, but I know one of them was well over 20 pounds. 00:17:56.984 --> 00:18:01.184 And these were June hatches, so that's not even six months old. 00:18:01.184 --> 00:18:01.845 Mm-hmm. 00:18:02.649 --> 00:18:06.914 But like with, with them when you have'em and you're moving them around like that mm-hmm. 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:15.579 That funny little squabble that they make, you know, it's like we're, the first couple times they were probably like, what are you doing? 00:18:16.389 --> 00:18:20.169 But then they were probably like, Ooh, there's something I haven't seen before. 00:18:20.894 --> 00:18:21.674 What is this? 00:18:21.674 --> 00:18:22.424 What is that? 00:18:22.424 --> 00:18:24.615 Going all over the fresh grass. 00:18:25.125 --> 00:18:29.384 And it gives time for their pen to relax and regrow. 00:18:29.384 --> 00:18:42.164 And I need to get in there and put some lime down and, and balance the soil a little bit better so the grass can come back in the spring and it gives them, you know, time to get out and get something different. 00:18:42.495 --> 00:18:49.305 Um, but ultimately what I want to do is move those Illumina cos through the orchard to fertilize. 00:18:49.579 --> 00:18:51.529 The trees up there. 00:18:52.730 --> 00:18:52.819 Sure. 00:18:52.819 --> 00:19:00.990 So on the turkeys I like now we're talking about heritage Turkey here and there is a difference. 00:19:01.710 --> 00:19:05.579 So the heritage birds do take longer to grow. 00:19:05.579 --> 00:19:05.640 Yeah. 00:19:05.910 --> 00:19:07.230 And they're. 00:19:07.914 --> 00:19:22.134 Legs and their wings are going to develop those tough tendons and ligaments, and it's really hard to eat those, basically, I don't find them overly mm-hmm. 00:19:22.375 --> 00:19:24.595 Appetizing with all of that stuff in there. 00:19:25.045 --> 00:19:27.370 And so what we tend to do here. 00:19:28.900 --> 00:19:32.200 Is we bake the breast meat. 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:32.259 Yeah. 00:19:32.470 --> 00:19:37.390 And then we slice it for dinner or for sandwiches. 00:19:37.390 --> 00:19:44.809 I have a meat slicer, so we put them on the meat slicer and I slice it really thin like you would buy at the deli. 00:19:45.289 --> 00:19:50.490 And then I vacuum seal two sandwiches worth in a package and put it in the freezer. 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:52.190 There's never any waste. 00:19:52.190 --> 00:19:54.079 I want a Turkey sandwich for lunch. 00:19:54.380 --> 00:20:04.730 So I take it out after breakfast, it's thought out by lunchtime, make a sandwich, and there's no Turkey left in the refrigerator that you're wondering how long has that been in there? 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:06.140 Yeah, exactly. 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:06.890 When was it? 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:09.710 So I find that that works better for us. 00:20:09.710 --> 00:20:15.259 I mean, it's just me and David here in the house, and it's not like there's a bunch of kids running through eating everything. 00:20:15.650 --> 00:20:20.240 You know, when we had the teenage boys in the house, it wasn't a concern, so, oh yeah. 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:28.279 When you have teenagers in your house, the date on something, except for maybe like yogurt, that's not a concern. 00:20:28.549 --> 00:20:30.349 No, it is not gonna last. 00:20:30.470 --> 00:20:31.009 No. 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:34.190 So that's what we do with the Turkey breast. 00:20:34.529 --> 00:20:40.740 The five that we did on Friday, what we did with them is we made ground Turkey. 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:43.309 Just for some variety in the freezer. 00:20:43.730 --> 00:20:44.029 Yeah. 00:20:44.750 --> 00:20:51.829 And my plan is I bought one of those, um, sandwich loaf, baker steamer, I don't know what they're called. 00:20:52.069 --> 00:20:55.819 It's like a cylinder thing and it has a spring on it. 00:20:56.150 --> 00:20:58.339 And then you put it, I know it's weird. 00:20:58.579 --> 00:21:03.319 And then you put it, you season all the meat and you put it in there and you compress it. 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:05.849 As hard as you can with that spring. 00:21:06.150 --> 00:21:08.190 And So it's like a sausage link maker? 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:13.620 No, it's, it's like five inches in diameter and Yeah. 00:21:13.829 --> 00:21:21.660 And then you put it in boiling water and you basically cook it in boiling water and let it cool. 00:21:21.660 --> 00:21:24.930 And then take it out and think like Oscar Meyer meat. 00:21:25.410 --> 00:21:27.654 I was gonna say, that's how you, that's how they get the pick. 00:21:28.365 --> 00:21:30.974 Things of mystery bologna. 00:21:31.305 --> 00:21:32.085 Exactly. 00:21:32.565 --> 00:21:34.214 Oh man. 00:21:34.964 --> 00:21:40.470 You could do that and you would actually know what it was that you were frying a thick slice of. 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:42.539 That would make it even better. 00:21:42.779 --> 00:21:43.049 Yeah. 00:21:43.049 --> 00:21:45.299 Well this girl ain't touching no bologna. 00:21:45.299 --> 00:21:46.319 That just ain't happening. 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:52.509 So that's why I said like, I mean, it looks good, but yeah, it ain't happening here. 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:57.910 Uh, my wife's granddaddy worked at the Oscar Meyer plant and he, he wouldn't eat it for a reason, so I. 00:21:58.910 --> 00:22:00.170 So I'm gonna try that. 00:22:00.170 --> 00:22:07.960 I've, I've played with it a little bit, but I haven't really been super excited about it, but I'm gonna try it with the ground Turkey. 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:10.870 And David likes that more. 00:22:11.545 --> 00:22:15.474 Refined, basically processed texture. 00:22:15.714 --> 00:22:18.714 So I'm trying to make some of that stuff for him. 00:22:18.924 --> 00:22:21.984 That's how he grew up, so he misses that texture. 00:22:22.704 --> 00:22:25.920 So anyway, so basically you're trying to make him potted meat with. 00:22:26.634 --> 00:22:28.585 Meat that you actually know what it was. 00:22:28.734 --> 00:22:30.444 He loves potted meat. 00:22:30.444 --> 00:22:32.214 I refuse to buy it, but he loves it. 00:22:32.214 --> 00:22:33.805 Vienna sa, what does he call'em? 00:22:33.805 --> 00:22:34.315 Vinny. 00:22:34.525 --> 00:22:35.934 Vinny sausages. 00:22:36.174 --> 00:22:37.495 Vinny sausages. 00:22:37.495 --> 00:22:38.245 Something like that. 00:22:38.245 --> 00:22:39.595 I can't remember what he calls'em. 00:22:39.595 --> 00:22:40.825 This thing's nasty. 00:22:40.944 --> 00:22:42.954 Look, he also eats rag bologna. 00:22:42.954 --> 00:22:44.184 Whatever the crap that is. 00:22:44.245 --> 00:22:51.755 One of my kids likes those things like, we're not, we're well beyond going hunting. 00:22:52.194 --> 00:22:55.585 You've got some stuff in case you're out in the woods and you're hungry. 00:22:56.305 --> 00:22:57.654 Like well beyond, beyond. 00:22:57.654 --> 00:23:01.464 This kid will ask for it as a snack when we make a Sam's run. 00:23:01.884 --> 00:23:03.234 What vi Any sausages? 00:23:03.295 --> 00:23:03.954 Yes. 00:23:04.375 --> 00:23:04.644 Yeah. 00:23:04.914 --> 00:23:12.835 And she will take the middle one out, then fill the can about half full with hot sauce. 00:23:13.375 --> 00:23:17.454 Stick the middle one in it like it's dip and eat them. 00:23:17.964 --> 00:23:18.234 Yeah. 00:23:19.045 --> 00:23:19.914 And I'm like. 00:23:20.914 --> 00:23:25.355 One day I just looked at her like she was crazy and she says, what pop? 00:23:25.414 --> 00:23:28.325 I said, uh, do you nope. 00:23:28.384 --> 00:23:29.974 Uhuh don't ruin it for me. 00:23:31.355 --> 00:23:32.224 I said, what? 00:23:32.944 --> 00:23:42.934 She said, I have a feeling you're gonna ask if I know what those are made out of, and I have a pretty good idea, but I also like them, so don't, don't ruin it for me. 00:23:42.934 --> 00:23:44.825 I was like, okay. 00:23:46.444 --> 00:23:46.865 All right. 00:23:48.670 --> 00:23:52.775 So, but, so that's what you do with older turkeys? 00:23:53.555 --> 00:23:53.795 Yep. 00:23:54.214 --> 00:23:55.805 The younger turkeys are Thanksgiving. 00:23:57.259 --> 00:23:59.960 Well, we still have to, we still have the legs and thighs. 00:23:59.990 --> 00:24:05.089 'cause re David doesn't like dark meat and I can only eat so much of it. 00:24:05.089 --> 00:24:10.279 So what I do is I'll just throw'em all in the instant pot, the legs and the thighs. 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:11.960 Throw'em in the instant pot. 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:12.349 They come. 00:24:12.349 --> 00:24:13.640 I've got some in there right now. 00:24:13.640 --> 00:24:16.549 I've got two instant pots going right now with Turkey, legs and thighs. 00:24:16.970 --> 00:24:23.960 And I'll pull some of the meat off for me and make almost like a, a chicken salad, but with Turkey meat. 00:24:24.025 --> 00:24:24.245 Yes. 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:25.430 And make a sandwich. 00:24:25.434 --> 00:24:25.684 That's really good. 00:24:26.365 --> 00:24:28.285 And some pickles and salt and pepper. 00:24:28.285 --> 00:24:28.914 It's so good. 00:24:29.555 --> 00:24:34.654 But the rest of it, I just kind of pull it apart and the cartilage and all that stuff. 00:24:34.894 --> 00:24:36.454 And I just use it for dog food. 00:24:36.845 --> 00:24:37.924 I make a lot of dog food. 00:24:37.924 --> 00:24:38.884 Put it in the dog bowl. 00:24:39.214 --> 00:24:43.414 Yeah, I make a lot of dog food, but then all the bones. 00:24:44.585 --> 00:24:45.095 Okay. 00:24:45.095 --> 00:24:47.944 The bones go back in the, okay. 00:24:47.944 --> 00:24:52.414 Well, the heart, the liver, the gizzard, all that stuff that goes into the dog food too. 00:24:53.025 --> 00:24:56.414 But all the bones go back in the Instant Pot and they'll cook. 00:24:56.904 --> 00:25:04.134 Depending on how busy I am, I may keep restarting that instant pot for two or three days because I'm just too busy to, to deal with it. 00:25:04.609 --> 00:25:06.470 And you're cooking'em down? 00:25:06.714 --> 00:25:08.005 Yeah, I cook'em down. 00:25:08.365 --> 00:25:11.670 But then what We didn't talk, well, we didn't talk about with. 00:25:12.015 --> 00:25:14.984 Quail because I don't care for the quail broth. 00:25:14.984 --> 00:25:16.424 I don't think it's rich enough. 00:25:17.384 --> 00:25:21.464 But this would be apply for the chicken broth too. 00:25:22.424 --> 00:25:29.865 And once you get it cooked down and you're ready to strain it out of the. 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:38.839 Instant pot or off of your broiler pan, whatever you're cooking those bones down in, they need to be submerged in liquid. 00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:39.559 Mm-hmm. 00:25:39.799 --> 00:25:46.250 But then what you wanna do once you strain it, meaning get all the bones out of it, the bits and pieces and everything. 00:25:46.785 --> 00:25:50.894 Put it in a pot on the stove and then condense it. 00:25:51.644 --> 00:26:02.954 So before I learned to can or learn or got a freeze dryer, do you know those jars that you can buy at the store? 00:26:02.954 --> 00:26:04.934 They're like six or$7. 00:26:05.474 --> 00:26:09.644 And when you chicken broth, but it's condensed chicken broth and you can open it. 00:26:10.245 --> 00:26:12.674 Scoop it out the spoon and then just dilute it. 00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:12.700 Mm-hmm. 00:26:12.785 --> 00:26:13.035 Okay. 00:26:13.035 --> 00:26:13.275 Yeah. 00:26:13.275 --> 00:26:14.500 I can't remember what it's called. 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:17.019 But, but basically chicken broth. 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:21.410 No, there's a name for that brand and I can't even think of what it is. 00:26:21.410 --> 00:26:24.380 Oh, just like, just like broth or something like that? 00:26:24.620 --> 00:26:25.970 Yeah, I know what you're talking about. 00:26:26.089 --> 00:26:26.450 Okay. 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:29.750 Comes in a little brown jar, about three or four inches tall. 00:26:30.049 --> 00:26:30.410 Okay. 00:26:30.470 --> 00:26:31.400 It's really good. 00:26:31.710 --> 00:26:32.819 But you can make your own. 00:26:32.910 --> 00:26:39.779 Just boil it, boil the water off on the stove, and it'll eventually come down to that consistency. 00:26:39.779 --> 00:26:41.309 Put it in a jar and put it in your refrigerator. 00:26:42.375 --> 00:26:42.795 Yeah. 00:26:43.105 --> 00:26:51.894 And if you have too much, then roll it into logs on parchment paper and like butter and freeze it. 00:26:52.464 --> 00:26:54.505 I was gonna say, you don't really have too much. 00:26:54.505 --> 00:26:55.704 There's always a use. 00:26:55.884 --> 00:26:55.944 Yeah. 00:26:56.390 --> 00:26:56.870 Oh my gosh. 00:26:56.870 --> 00:26:58.549 We do so much chicken broth. 00:26:58.549 --> 00:27:00.380 I mean, we just drink chicken broth. 00:27:00.859 --> 00:27:03.589 But you can use it in so many different things. 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:06.339 Chinese food, um, soups. 00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:08.440 They use a lot of it in Chinese food. 00:27:08.740 --> 00:27:09.220 Yes. 00:27:09.220 --> 00:27:10.329 It's, it's a lot. 00:27:10.730 --> 00:27:12.319 It, this is a lot of it goes in soups. 00:27:12.620 --> 00:27:12.859 Mm-hmm. 00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:14.390 All kinds of soups. 00:27:15.490 --> 00:27:24.880 If you, if you know how to can then get it down to the desired consistency or concentration, I guess would be the better word. 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:29.380 And then can it and in my case, I particularly. 00:27:29.924 --> 00:27:32.125 Prefer to freeze dry it. 00:27:32.904 --> 00:27:41.835 Uh, I will steam it off until it's kind of thick and it gels when I put it in the refrigerator, which is all that nice collagen that's in there. 00:27:42.255 --> 00:27:53.115 And then I freeze dry it and put it in the blender, get it into a powder, and you could take, I don't know, 20 jars worth of. 00:27:53.964 --> 00:27:55.674 Broth and put it in a pint. 00:27:55.914 --> 00:27:58.825 You can condense it down for your shelf space so much. 00:27:58.825 --> 00:28:00.505 I love my freeze dryer. 00:28:01.164 --> 00:28:06.115 That brings it down to a whole new level of condensed broth. 00:28:06.115 --> 00:28:06.745 It does. 00:28:07.154 --> 00:28:13.855 We have so much chicken broth on the shelf because I just cook it down to, I just cook it all the time. 00:28:13.855 --> 00:28:15.210 I just can, can't, well, like this time of year. 00:28:16.210 --> 00:28:22.420 When you have a lot of dressing and things like that, you really go through a lot of broth. 00:28:23.170 --> 00:28:29.960 And if you're somebody that likes to eat soups and things like that you're gonna go through a decent amount then, too. 00:28:30.289 --> 00:28:36.144 Well, if it's freeze dried, you know, it's like what a, a cup of it is enough to make a. 00:28:37.099 --> 00:28:38.720 Gallon size pot? 00:28:39.980 --> 00:28:47.299 Well, depending on your consistency or your concentration of how much, and then just your taste buds. 00:28:47.569 --> 00:28:50.839 So the stuff that you buy in the store, in that box. 00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:52.529 The box. 00:28:52.589 --> 00:28:54.329 Yeah, the box of chicken broth. 00:28:54.779 --> 00:29:04.859 I can't say this with a hundred percent certainty, but logic tells me that the big hatchery processors. 00:29:05.269 --> 00:29:07.430 Are doing the same thing I'm talking about doing. 00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:12.710 They're taking those Cornish carcasses and they're cooking them down to make broth. 00:29:13.370 --> 00:29:16.700 Well, those Cornish crosses, I have them. 00:29:16.700 --> 00:29:20.750 I have had them in the past and I have tried to make broth with them. 00:29:21.019 --> 00:29:26.660 They don't graze and they don't go out and they don't develop their bone structure. 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:34.370 And that bone structure is what gives you that really, really nice flavor and that color. 00:29:34.940 --> 00:29:45.440 So the stuff in a box is almost clear because I see people on the freeze drying pages and they're like, well, we tried to freeze dry broth like you're doing. 00:29:45.769 --> 00:29:49.730 And I ended up with a tablespoon of powder. 00:29:50.295 --> 00:29:58.450 Whereas I'll end up with a court portray, and that's a huge, so that tells me that they probably used. 00:29:59.654 --> 00:30:01.605 The stuff from the store to Right. 00:30:02.085 --> 00:30:04.335 Why in the world would you freeze dry it? 00:30:04.335 --> 00:30:07.275 If it doesn't, why preserve it if you buy it at store? 00:30:07.515 --> 00:30:10.075 Because people just don't know. 00:30:10.134 --> 00:30:17.035 They don't know that you can just simply take a chicken carcass or a Turkey carcass or even. 00:30:17.529 --> 00:30:20.230 Or duck or pheasant or whatever you say. 00:30:20.230 --> 00:30:21.700 Anything, yes. 00:30:21.700 --> 00:30:23.444 Bowl the crap outta it and then it down. 00:30:24.144 --> 00:30:34.884 The only thing that I really struggled with that I'm still working on, my mastery, I'm getting much better at it, is my cow bones, my beef broth. 00:30:35.214 --> 00:30:43.224 You have to bake them, roast them, develop that flavor before you can. 00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:44.710 Extract, do something with it. 00:30:44.710 --> 00:30:44.730 Extract it. 00:30:45.220 --> 00:30:46.404 Mm-hmm hmm. 00:30:46.539 --> 00:30:52.779 Um, if you try to do it with fresh bones, you end up with what looks like at the store, that nice, clear liquid. 00:30:53.200 --> 00:31:00.609 But if you roast them and bake them and put vegetables, like onions and carrots and stuff in there with them, yeah. 00:31:00.609 --> 00:31:04.450 Then you develop that nice caramel color for beef bones. 00:31:05.825 --> 00:31:10.690 No, but anyway, so the point of doing all of this show today was this time of year. 00:31:10.690 --> 00:31:22.944 There's a lot of cooking going on, and if you have a slow cooker or an instant pot, which I cannot tell you, well, I can tell you because you listened to me and you went and did it, but. 00:31:23.664 --> 00:31:26.934 An Instant Pot is the most fantastic thing ever. 00:31:27.144 --> 00:31:28.315 Like I own three of them. 00:31:28.375 --> 00:31:32.995 Well, I technically own two of them, but I stole one from one of the kids and he hasn't asked for it back yet. 00:31:32.995 --> 00:31:33.924 So I have three of them. 00:31:34.525 --> 00:31:43.130 So like, I got an Instant pot because I saw how you use'em for just about everything. 00:31:43.599 --> 00:31:47.829 And I was telling my wife about it and she was like, oh yeah, my sister has one of those. 00:31:47.829 --> 00:31:49.180 She's told me we should try it. 00:31:50.255 --> 00:31:59.315 And you know how the AI in your phone listens to everything you say, and then like that popped up as a deal of the day or something. 00:32:00.845 --> 00:32:07.535 So I ordered my wife one and she was excited and she's asked for another one. 00:32:08.585 --> 00:32:09.605 Next sale pot. 00:32:09.634 --> 00:32:10.505 I need the big one. 00:32:10.505 --> 00:32:14.285 I don't need the one that you know, goes on sale for everybody else. 00:32:14.914 --> 00:32:17.105 Like I need the ginormous one to go on sale. 00:32:17.434 --> 00:32:23.224 The little one was like at my house, the little one would be like something to cook rot tail in. 00:32:24.005 --> 00:32:27.875 We couldn't cook a meal in that, so I need that. 00:32:28.325 --> 00:32:31.549 But did you also see where they came out with an oven? 00:32:33.454 --> 00:32:36.424 So I'm really weird about the non-stick cookware. 00:32:36.424 --> 00:32:37.444 I won't use it. 00:32:37.654 --> 00:32:41.674 So a lot of those ones rely on non-stick. 00:32:41.914 --> 00:32:46.325 The Instant Pot is stainless steel, the same. 00:32:46.384 --> 00:32:50.134 The people that make the Instant Pot have the instant oven. 00:32:50.539 --> 00:32:55.069 Oh, I haven't seen it, but like the ninja, like I love my ninja blender and stuff. 00:32:55.460 --> 00:32:55.579 Yeah. 00:32:55.579 --> 00:33:00.230 But their version of all of that is non-stick Now this is stainless. 00:33:00.470 --> 00:33:00.950 Oh, okay. 00:33:00.950 --> 00:33:02.839 Well then yes, I would be game for that. 00:33:02.990 --> 00:33:04.579 I'll send, I'll send you a link on Amazon. 00:33:04.910 --> 00:33:07.400 Well, I just bought a roaster and I haven't even used it yet. 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:07.579 It's. 00:33:07.579 --> 00:33:10.759 Sitting on my counter because guess what? 00:33:10.970 --> 00:33:15.380 My six month old Turkey that I cooked for Thanksgiving didn't fit in the pot. 00:33:15.950 --> 00:33:22.690 I ended up having to like tent it with tin foil because the lid wouldn't fit on it. 00:33:23.049 --> 00:33:24.644 And it's, so now you have, were hanging over. 00:33:25.569 --> 00:33:32.740 Now you permanently have a smaller roaster that you can use to render down large in the garage. 00:33:34.464 --> 00:33:39.174 And then you have another one that's large that you can maybe fit a Turkey in Now. 00:33:40.224 --> 00:33:41.109 Oh, this big enough for that? 00:33:41.109 --> 00:33:41.515 This is the biggest one. 00:33:41.515 --> 00:33:42.984 It's 28 court. 00:33:42.984 --> 00:33:45.654 This suck girl will fit my big boys out there. 00:33:46.009 --> 00:33:46.230 Yes. 00:33:46.734 --> 00:33:47.214 Yes. 00:33:47.454 --> 00:33:48.025 And you know what? 00:33:48.025 --> 00:33:50.154 We actually didn't talk about schmaltz. 00:33:51.714 --> 00:33:52.134 Yeah. 00:33:52.585 --> 00:33:53.184 Do you know what SM. 00:33:54.184 --> 00:33:54.724 Most people don't. 00:33:54.724 --> 00:33:55.565 I've heard of it. 00:33:56.644 --> 00:33:58.355 I don't remember what it was. 00:33:58.355 --> 00:34:00.664 I do remember it being really weird. 00:34:01.664 --> 00:34:02.204 Oh, it's not weird. 00:34:02.204 --> 00:34:02.714 Tell us. 00:34:03.105 --> 00:34:03.615 Tell us. 00:34:03.615 --> 00:34:07.815 Okay, so when you cook your chicken broth down mm-hmm. 00:34:07.816 --> 00:34:15.375 And then you put it in the refrigerate refrigerator to to cool and to gel up with all that beautiful collagen that's in there. 00:34:15.615 --> 00:34:18.045 The fat will float to the top. 00:34:18.075 --> 00:34:19.005 Mm-hmm. 00:34:19.005 --> 00:34:22.005 You can just pick it up right out of the bowl. 00:34:22.335 --> 00:34:25.545 And that fat is called schmaltz. 00:34:25.845 --> 00:34:28.695 So if you take fat off of pig. 00:34:28.885 --> 00:34:30.355 That's called lard. 00:34:31.170 --> 00:34:43.890 If you take fat off of cow, that's called tallow, and if you take fat off of chicken, it's called smalt, so you could scramble your eggs as it looks like butter too. 00:34:43.890 --> 00:34:45.285 So don't ever try to, you. 00:34:45.530 --> 00:34:50.210 Put it in the refrigerator without marking it because it's yellow and you don't want it on your toast. 00:34:50.300 --> 00:34:55.699 I was gonna say that could make it for a rude or rak awakening when you like smear it on some bread or something. 00:34:55.799 --> 00:34:59.639 But I have like put a little spoon like spoonfuls in there. 00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:07.019 Like when I'm cooking chicken in the cast iron skillet, I put it in there because you know, I mean it's chicken, why not? 00:35:07.019 --> 00:35:07.500 Right? 00:35:08.099 --> 00:35:09.900 Give gives it, it helps with. 00:35:10.494 --> 00:35:17.184 Instead of using a grease that may give it a flavor that you don't want, you just put a little bit of that in there and bam. 00:35:17.454 --> 00:35:17.815 Yeah. 00:35:18.204 --> 00:35:21.534 So don't waste your birds. 00:35:21.534 --> 00:35:35.644 I mean, the bird keeps on giving for, theoretically months if you handle it correctly, because even if you bury the bones, then it's growing your vegetable garden in the spring. 00:35:36.824 --> 00:35:57.789 So, and you know, with this episode, a lot of people will, hopefully, will realize that some of the stuff that they hear us talk about or see on homesteader conferences or shows or YouTube videos or however they pick it up, they'll realize it's not really rocket science and it's not that hard. 00:35:59.259 --> 00:36:05.979 No, and it doesn't stop with just putting a chicken in the freezer like it, like really? 00:36:06.309 --> 00:36:06.399 Mm-hmm. 00:36:06.609 --> 00:36:12.819 Really understand that you just spent literally months putting that chicken in the freezer. 00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:15.279 So use it. 00:36:15.369 --> 00:36:16.479 Use every, yeah. 00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:17.799 Piece of it. 00:36:19.179 --> 00:36:19.750 Definitely. 00:36:20.750 --> 00:36:21.109 All right. 00:36:21.109 --> 00:36:22.099 Well that's all I got to say. 00:36:22.099 --> 00:36:25.639 I don't think I can think of any other use for anything on there. 00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:38.239 But if you guys think of something that I missed or have a question about it, you can always email us or put it on our Facebook page that, Hey, you forgot to talk about such and such. 00:36:38.659 --> 00:36:39.109 Yeah. 00:36:39.144 --> 00:36:44.299 When, when you know, when you see this episode post and you're like, what happened to the rest of her? 00:36:45.109 --> 00:36:47.234 Well, lemme find out what did happen to the rest of. 00:36:48.194 --> 00:36:49.419 If you think of something else. 00:36:50.534 --> 00:36:54.854 Stick a comment down there because that's where we get ideas. 00:36:55.034 --> 00:36:56.474 You know what we do need though? 00:36:56.894 --> 00:36:59.804 What we, I've never cooked down chicken feet. 00:37:00.044 --> 00:37:01.125 I've looked at'em. 00:37:01.125 --> 00:37:02.204 I've thought about it. 00:37:02.444 --> 00:37:08.264 I even brought'em in the house and I could not quite grasp the concept. 00:37:08.534 --> 00:37:13.274 So if you cook down chicken feet, let us know what you do with them. 00:37:13.694 --> 00:37:14.024 Yeah. 00:37:14.024 --> 00:37:15.614 Let us know how it works out. 00:37:15.854 --> 00:37:19.125 Yeah, because there's some things that I just. 00:37:20.125 --> 00:37:21.714 I just take your word for it. 00:37:21.804 --> 00:37:21.864 Yeah. 00:37:21.864 --> 00:37:23.214 Because I, yep. 00:37:23.904 --> 00:37:26.934 But in some places I think chicken feet are a delicacy. 00:37:28.284 --> 00:37:32.394 Anyways, we will see y'all next week. 00:37:32.964 --> 00:37:33.204 Yep. 00:37:33.414 --> 00:37:34.044 I'll be back.