Turkeys, a work in progress

These are our turkeys on graduation day. This was their first day on grass back in June. And they do like it. They immediately began eating the weeds.



This guy barely escaped the knife today. He was in the group segregated for slaughter today, but some how he slipped out of the enclosure.



My wife and I have an arrangement. She does the plucking, I do the cutting.



We slaughtered one turkey about two weeks ago as a trial. To see what our turkeys were up to in terms of weight. How they would cook up. From that feedback we decided they could use more calories to convert to fat but they were up to size. Today we slaughtered three more. Two for our annual harvest party and one for my folks for Thanksgiving.



These are the necks, livers, hearts and gizzards. They will go into the giblet gravy. We ended up with about 50 lbs of turkey between the three of them.

And enough snacks to last Baloo for a while.