tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27945607.post5573558160228982892..comments2024-01-12T18:41:52.560-05:00Comments on Dave's Cupboard: Local ChickenDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17866627809585257034noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27945607.post-27683391240420773612011-02-14T13:35:53.367-05:002011-02-14T13:35:53.367-05:00I wish people would prefer quality over cheapness....I wish people would prefer quality over cheapness.<br /><br />If you want healthy, good tasting products you will surely not get them for dumping prices.<br /><br />A commercial chicken is eating as much food in the 6 weeks from hatching to slaughter as much as a 150 pound grown up man.<br /><br />Scary, isnĀ“t it?<br /><br />And all th factory farmed chicken rely on grain and animal meal to grow.<br /><br />No clucking around and eating bugs and worms and seeds from the pasture..which also would give healthy and tasteful meat.<br /><br />Sure you need to feed a bit of grain, but not as much as one of these monstermeat chicken.cyrellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27945607.post-82269301906327577102010-09-30T11:03:49.813-04:002010-09-30T11:03:49.813-04:00No, I don't particularly care for pheasant as ...No, I don't particularly care for pheasant as food. I'll buy a couple of live ones when I get the coop done, and keep them as living lawn ornaments. :)Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17866627809585257034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27945607.post-57498918584709047242010-09-30T10:45:21.452-04:002010-09-30T10:45:21.452-04:00Did you get a pheasant? Was on my to do list...Did you get a pheasant? Was on my to do list...marcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27945607.post-88253019383507446532010-09-30T10:22:34.942-04:002010-09-30T10:22:34.942-04:00Alan - One of the really great thing about Impoco&...<b>Alan</b> - One of the really great thing about Impoco's is that Tony very often has plenty of live birds available when you walk in, and I'm pretty sure he'd let you pick out a live bird if you want to.<br /><br />Next spring I plan to have a chicken coop set up here so I can have a few hens out back. When that's done, the next time Tony has pheasants like he did this week, I'm going to ask him to set aside a cock and a hen for me <i>alive</i> so I can keep them to roam around the yard and eat bugs. I could eat 'em, I suppose, but I just get a kick out of looking at them.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17866627809585257034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27945607.post-86542619814099831922010-09-30T08:45:54.373-04:002010-09-30T08:45:54.373-04:00Another GREAT article, Dave. I'm behind you a...Another GREAT article, Dave. I'm behind you all the way on local markets, when you find them. Back in the day, and still today I hear, up on Federal Hill in Providence, you can still pick out your chicken live, then carry it home in a bag ready for cooking. Growing up, my neighbor had his own chickens and did the dirty deed out back at the stone fireplace with a cutting board. Plucked 'em in a bucket of hot water. Life was simple then.<br />Now I need to find me a fresh chicken. I love "E. Coli & Sons". Sounds like a business where Homer Simpson might go to get his chicken.Alannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27945607.post-42845146847714321352010-09-30T08:36:30.107-04:002010-09-30T08:36:30.107-04:00"but it tastes like chicken.. not eight hundr..."but it tastes like chicken.. not eight hundred miles away at E. Coli & Son's Industrial Meat Processing Plant, you are not only helping yourself eat better, you're helping your community by helping local agriculture remain viable."<br />AMEN!marcnoreply@blogger.com