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  • From: Pego Rice <firekeeper38@yahoo.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Agriculture and Food Consumption
  • Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:35:58 -0700 (PDT)

This is one of the very specific reasons that small holds are more efficient
by far than factory ag. When you choose meat producers for the big pay-off
and machinate endless ways to kill the overhead or transfer the cost to
whoever can't complain, you get Angus. When you choose meat production for
how it will fit in your particular needs and conditions you might get a mad
mix of poultry like chicken, geese, guinea fowl, ducks and turkey for eggs,
meat and pest control, plus a couple of goats or a jersey for dairy products
and a few fish in the water tank. You find that you suddenly have enough
meat to feed out a large family and a half a dozen farm hands all of which
are much thriftier feeders than, well, Angus.

In a corporate farm a broad-breasted turkey takes only about 75 pounds of
feed to raise a 30-pound male, a tom. By contrast, ranchers must supply many
times that much feed to put 30 pounds on a cow. I don't know how much a
farmer has to feed a turkey that is herded through the fields. George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson released flocks of turkeys to remove worms
from their tobacco plants. Definitely a dual use bird. Probably the reason
ol' Benjamin Franklin thought such industrious birds should be our national
bird over the eagle who's habit of scavanging lent itself to BJ's remark
about "Bad moral character"

I really need to find some space for some of these birds, when I get to
cooking for T-day I will often cook a couple of birds to get 30 or 40 lbs for
my huge crowd and it would just blow their minds if this were in one bird.
Nobody sells a 35lb bird tho.

Yours, Pego



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