In this video, we take a look at the economy of processing old roosters on the farm that are way too old to become fryers. While we hate to see anything go to waste, is it worth taking the time to process a tough old bird for food?
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Great ideas and tips! Glad you guys are doing better.
Chicken stock and bone broth do not last in my house, I don't even can it, from pot to belly. But I do can chicken every year, to keep in the pantry for emergency use…or when I just don't have time to cook.
Good episode, Troy.
Thank you for the video
Man! You can’t beat home cooked stock. So much better than the grocery store stuff and you can control how much salt it has. I can just drink cups of it at a time.
Soup sounds so good! But the blueberry cobbler looked ever better! We love having canned meals on the pantry shelf. Blessed Easter to you and your family.
Happy Resurrection Day to you all!!
We can green beens, veggie soup, corn, spaghetti sauce, small potatoes and It’s all good!!
Great idea with the chicken. Homemade chicken soup is wonderful 👏👏👏👏👏. Could you tell me the link for your insta pot and pressure canner? Thank you
Great information and that cobbler looked yummy
Omg!!!! Your thumbnail is amazing!!!! So funny 🤣
Strawberry and cherry cheesecake, in single serving jelly jars. We have to argue with the boys to stay out of them.
Troy, glad to see and here few things about your life! That pie! My oh my! I think it’d be extremely difficult to stop at 2 helpings!
Many moons ago (seems like a different lifetime even) I used to watch my grandma and mom can several different things! One time when I was about 4 my mom had started making a peach cobbler. Long about mid process she sent me to the pantry to get a quart jar of peaches. We didn’t have any. She then sent me across the street to borrow a quart from our neighbor lady. When I was there to get them I said, “Mrs. Bertha, mom asked me also to ask if you’d be so kind as to open them for her cause her opener is missing.” Bertha opened that jar and sent me on my way. Mind you, it was only about 150yards from our kitchen to that of Mrs. Bertha. By time I reached our house the only thing left in the jar was juice! Mom was a bit upset with me. Sent me for another and made me confess to Mrs Bertha that I had lies to her about the can opener! What a life lesson to learn! On top of that, after the peach cobbler was finished she furthered my punishment by not allowing to taste it and having to sit in the presence of anyone who ate it over the next few days!
A lady friend whom we called Maude used to can deer meat!
Happy Birthday to Troy’s Mother.
we usually break the bigger bones and cook the bone marrow out for a second run of broth. Works for all animals that you harvest wild or domestic
I also live in West Virginia and I also can chicken noodle soup along with vegetable beef soup. I make home made noodles while the chicken is pressure cooking. I cook the noodles and then add the chicken and bring to a boil. I place the soup in the jars and I pressure can the soup at 15psi for 90 minutes. The Ball Canning Book states that all meat should be canned at that psi and for those minutes at my elevation.
Crazy thing I canned??? Well in March of 2020 I canned milk. Still got 3 qts of it. I can a lot. And lots of different things cause I want to EAT lots of different things. I can meat, all the meats. Zucchini and summer squashes I do with onion and tomato. This can be used as a side with addition of minute rice or used as a soup base. Green beans, okra a bunch of different ways, fruits, jams, mustard and collard greens…. polk salad greens. Prune juice from store bought prunes, a $$ saver! One thing I can a ton of is store bought dried beans. All the beans. Lima, pinto, navy, northern, cranberry, garbanzo, kidney, black, black eye peas. And hominy.
You can't beat homemade soup. Have a blessed Easter folks. Take care Troy.
3 legged🤣 chicken ….. ha ha ha ha ,,,,OMG that was funny
We watch another channel where the lady always lets it cool more than what you would think just because of the spitting which she says contaminates the seal and could cause the jars to spoil.
Living Traditions is the name of the Channel.
I always hated the job of doing carcass and stripping meat from bone, smells bad also. But when you eat the soup makes it all worth while. TIP add a hand full of barley to your soup.
We put them in the slow cooker for 3 days, it works great.
Also work for culled hens?
You can use the leftover carcass as a dog food supplement rather than composting them.
How she going right there eh! Here in south eastern Canada my dad and I bottle our deer every year we save the back straps and a few steaks and rest in bottles make great stews we just boil up some potatoes, carrots and throw in a bottle of meat awesome stew… I also boil up all my roosters may have to get an instapot look pretty slick… thanks for sharing
Hey Troy we used to go to our local butcher and get the dog bones that they would give for dogs and make 5 to 6 gallons of beef broth and we would do the same with our chicken carcasses it is amazingly good
My favorite canned item…Mom’s canned green beans! GREAT TO SEE YOU “back on the air”! Tim in northern TN
Great video. Most city dwellers would have no idea that you can put up your own food without refrigeration. My older sisters speak of sausage balls our momma canned. By the time I was born, we had electricity and she put the pig in the freezer. Never had the joy of eating canned sausage balls.
I really like your attempt to get a use out of everything. Seems like we live in such a wasteful throw away society. Sometimes I find myself getting annoyed at the waste in my own household. Although living in an apt don't really lend itself to much in the way of projects. Getting out of this apt is a goal we are trying to work on though.
The Amish don't use electric
They can entire pigs
Remember if alot is good and more is better
Too much is just right.
Feed them to the pigs
I got so many whole chickens in freeze.. I think I will do this too. Good idea
I like canning potato’s Sweet and Irish glad you’re feeling better happy Resurrection day
Yum old roosters make the best chicken salad.
Happy birthday Mom. great video.
Happy Easter! My favorite to can is fish. Go to Holly River for a week between all of us catch 100 or so ib a good year rainbow trout (legal amount). Take them home and can them for frying up trout patties. God Bless.
What do you believe are best chicken for broilers
One already commented on deer meat = YES venison canned is awesome, is makes a tender meat with light gravy that served over mashed potatoes or rice is a tasty quick meal
I was really hoping you were gonna say "shoot em with a .22" =]