Waste not want not

[OHJEEZE]

So seeing that there is no sense wasting a good thing, and trying something new in the process.

And seeing people waste so mush like in this thread. People who dump deer carcasses on the side of the road rant

I took all the bones from this years deer with the exception of the ribs and head and put them in my old turkey fryer pot up on the stove with a gallon of water, and simmered them, (thinking I had to add another half gallon water later) until all the meat, etc fell off, took the bones out when cooled and it all gelled up.

I refrigerated it and scoop out a pint a day and throw it into the chicken pen, and watch them go nuts scarffing it down!

I eventually did the same with the head, cutting as mush off as possible first.

 

[Firpo]

Good for you. I’ve been watching a lot of history videos lately and man, back in the 1700s they didn’t waste ANYTHING. They’d make glue and gelatin from the hooves, spoons and hair combs from the outer horns of cattle and even drum sticks out of bison penis.

 

[OHJEEZE]

in all honesty, if you kept it clean, what I am feeding to the chickens is edible.

Maybe the exception of spinal cord

 

[Timmy59]

in all honesty, if you kept it clean, what I am feeding to the chickens is edible.

Maybe the exception of spinal cord

We do our best to see all scraps and leftovers feed something else. The chickens usually get the greatest variety.

 

[cowadle]

that is called bone broth. why don't you eat it? it is very nutritious. i remember butchering chickens with my great grandmother----we cleaned the head and the feet. saved the heart the liver and the gizzard from each chicken. the only thing that went was the guts and feathers the hogs got those.

 

[Mr.Glock]

Kids we raised feeder rabbits, when we rendered at feeder size the chickens/turkeys and hogs got everything that did not get sold.

 

[SoonerP226]

I’ve been watching a lot of history videos lately and man, back in the 1700s they didn’t waste ANYTHING.

Back before the Late Unpleasantness Between the States, pork was the #1 protein source in the US, and they said we "used everything but the squeal."

 

[cowadle]

Back before the Late Unpleasantness Between the States, pork was the #1 protein source in the US, and they said we "used everything but the squeal."

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

That’s awesome! Way to give maximum respect to the animal harvested