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Barb's brother brought us down a bag of turkey meat earlier last week and that's probably the only turkey we will eat this year for the holidays, depends on who's in town for the Winter Soltice.
Barb and I talked it over and we decided we didn't need all the
left overs even a small turkey generates so I asked her to find a Capon if she could and we would just have that instead.
I like turkey ok, but we cook one every now and then just because we want one. I really prefer a nice fat Capon over a turkey every once in a while. Just so happened the Capon won out this year over the turkey.
Now I'm wondering how many of y'all know what a Capon is without looking it up on the internet or elsewhere?
Barb and I talked it over and we decided we didn't need all the
left overs even a small turkey generates so I asked her to find a Capon if she could and we would just have that instead.
I like turkey ok, but we cook one every now and then just because we want one. I really prefer a nice fat Capon over a turkey every once in a while. Just so happened the Capon won out this year over the turkey.
Now I'm wondering how many of y'all know what a Capon is without looking it up on the internet or elsewhere?
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My guess is that a capon is something like a cornish game hen. 
I looked it up...
Less than a rooster yet not quite a hen. 
I looked it up...
Less than a rooster yet not quite a hen. My Grandmother and I raised 500 of those things one year. I was never so glad to be able to ring the neck of the last one. For the 1950 we didn't do too bad when we sold them. They were not raised in no cage like they are now days. We had the dang things all over the place.
I lost a lot of sleep watching out for the darn things. Coyotes dooo like some chicken. These were very big and looked fat till you picked on up. If I remember right they were White Rocks.
Steph. I like the cartoons too.
I lost a lot of sleep watching out for the darn things. Coyotes dooo like some chicken. These were very big and looked fat till you picked on up. If I remember right they were White Rocks.
Steph. I like the cartoons too.
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Well, I survivied and hope everybody else did too.
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Originally posted by Pappy
My Grandmother and I raised 500 of those things one year.
I lost a lot of sleep watching out for the darn things.
Coyotes dooo like some chicken.
These were very big and looked fat till you picked on up.
If I remember right they were White Rocks.
Steph. I like the cartoons too.
Well I figured some of the old timers would know what a Capon was.
For the younger crowd and the old timers that still haven't figured it out a Capon is a Castrated Rooster. Taking the testicles lets the dumb chicken concentrate more on eating than on sex and consequently they reach around 6 to 8 pounds in about 8 to 10 weeks and are much more tender than a regular chicken.
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Smokey Mountain Knife Works found a bunch of John Primble castrating knives that had been tucked away for years, and I bought 4 or 6 of them. I kept one and drilled a hole to put a neck chain thru.
The others all went to female friends. I took a copy of the catalog page and put it in with each one of them when I wrapped them up. The gals all got a special gleam in their eyes when they realized they held in their hands the means to bobbitize.
Somehow I don't think they were thinking of performing a foul deed on a fowl, though.
The others all went to female friends. I took a copy of the catalog page and put it in with each one of them when I wrapped them up. The gals all got a special gleam in their eyes when they realized they held in their hands the means to bobbitize.
Somehow I don't think they were thinking of performing a foul deed on a fowl, though.
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Originally posted by Rusty
Smokey Mountain Knife Works found a bunch of John Primble castrating knives that had been tucked away for years, and I bought 4 or 6 of them. I kept one and drilled a hole to put a neck chain thru.
The others all went to female friends. I took a copy of the catalog page and put it in with each one of them when I wrapped them up. The gals all got a special gleam in their eyes when they realized they held in their hands the means to bobbitize.
Somehow I don't think they were thinking of performing a foul deed on a fowl, though.
Hehe heehee
Happy Thanksgiving all!
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Originally posted by Rusty
Smokey Mountain Knife Works found a bunch of John Primble castrating knives that had been tucked away for years, and I bought 4 or 6 of them. I kept one and drilled a hole to put a neck chain thru.
The others all went to female friends.
Somehow I don't think they were thinking of performing a foul deed on a fowl, though.
Too bad you didn't give one to Brendan's girlfriend as then he wouldn't have given her a chance to holler [B[Preggers!!!!
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What's this. Americans celebrating a holiday that we don't have in Aussie land. You had better tell me more so we can also have a holiday weekend too.
Sincerely though, where did the "Thanksgiving" celebration originate - it sounds like a wonderful day. Is it celebrated in countries other than the USA? I can tell you it's not celebrated in Australia.
Sincerely though, where did the "Thanksgiving" celebration originate - it sounds like a wonderful day. Is it celebrated in countries other than the USA? I can tell you it's not celebrated in Australia.
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Glenn, your question turned into an eye opener for me. Seems the story we all got told was the basis for out celebration was just a good story for the most part.Below are two accounts you might want to read, one of which relates to the English harvest festival.
http://members.aol.com/calebj/thanksgiving.html
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Thanksgiving/firstT.htm
Course Yvsa might have known it was mostly cooked up - evidently it didn't take the Puritans long to become unwelcome. ( Like most religious fanatics. ) But making it a National holiday did coincide with the end of the Civil War or whatever you call it. So it WAS a time to give thanks.
But then I understand that Japanese schoolbooks give a somewhat different interpretation of how they ended up fighting the U. S. So remember it's not always the victors who end up writing the history books. And it evidently goes on to this day depending on whether it's a Serb, Croatian, Kosovite, or Albanian you ask how the hate got started. There've always been feuding Hatfields and McCoys in the Appalachians and the local Paiutes don't tell you why there ain't no Shoshones southeast of Hawthorne ( the Paiutes killed 'em ).
Like I always ( well, sometimes ) say, go down to the feed store and buy a foot square ( or however big it is - I haven't seen one since I could count my age on both hands ) block of salt they sell as cattle licks. Yep, "Give peace a chance", alright, just keep that AR or AK handy!
http://members.aol.com/calebj/thanksgiving.html
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Thanksgiving/firstT.htm
Course Yvsa might have known it was mostly cooked up - evidently it didn't take the Puritans long to become unwelcome. ( Like most religious fanatics. ) But making it a National holiday did coincide with the end of the Civil War or whatever you call it. So it WAS a time to give thanks.
But then I understand that Japanese schoolbooks give a somewhat different interpretation of how they ended up fighting the U. S. So remember it's not always the victors who end up writing the history books. And it evidently goes on to this day depending on whether it's a Serb, Croatian, Kosovite, or Albanian you ask how the hate got started. There've always been feuding Hatfields and McCoys in the Appalachians and the local Paiutes don't tell you why there ain't no Shoshones southeast of Hawthorne ( the Paiutes killed 'em ).
Like I always ( well, sometimes ) say, go down to the feed store and buy a foot square ( or however big it is - I haven't seen one since I could count my age on both hands ) block of salt they sell as cattle licks. Yep, "Give peace a chance", alright, just keep that AR or AK handy!