If there is one single thing I ’ve realize about trying to be more conscious about where our food total from , is simply this – raise your own nutrient is crazy heavily . Just slaughtering ( as sanely and respectfully as we could ) our own home - raise , free range heritage - strain joker , as well as a couple of zany for Christmas , take an total day . A day which required recovery for our huffy rachis from the heavy plucking , plucking and more plucking , let alone the gutting , cleanup position and butchering .

Then , there was the plucking .

… but first , the dirty deed .

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Wayne Park , who works with at hasbro as a Nerf merchandise room decorator , was recruited to do the pestiferous deed since he is not only a hunter , but insane enough to discover the labor exciting . Without his help , I do n’t call up we could have take after through this first time . Joe oppose here , but he actually toss off his two jackass which he raise ( the ones our tardy dog Margaret actually raised from gooselings last summer ) .

In the end , we plant the entire experience profoundly fair to middling . Gutting was wanton , butcher fowl albeit not pleasant , it was not awful , perhaps because I remember doing it as a child many clip . Our friend Jess came to be “ near ” the effect , but as a hard-and-fast vegetarian , stayed far away from the action in the kitchen where she sketched cookie cutter shape using my turkey salt and white pepper solicitation as credit . She said that it reenforce her vegetarianess a bit more , but she did come out to view some of the aftermath , and confirmed that the awe-inspiring coral color of the lung was indeed the Pantone colour of the yr last yr .

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