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Eggs the Back Yard Protein that Fed Americans for Generations – Epi-173 – TSP Rewind

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally Episode-2709- Eggs the Back Yard Protein that Fed Americans for Generations and was originally published on August 11th 2020.

This series of rewinds running from Oct. 19th – 29th will be a skill set based rewind series.

All episodes will be dedicated to improving skill sets and knowledge base.

The following are the original show notes from that episode…

Bantam Hens are Well Mannered and Underrated in My Opinion

Yesterday I had to be in my car for a bit and so I listened to part of one of Nicole Sauce’s recent podcasts on meat chicken raising.  She covered it all from getting new chicks to butchering them.  It made me realize I have not talked about poultry recently and that hey I wanted to.

Function Stacking at Work, Our Free Range Ducks and Chickens Cleaning up Spilled Song Bird Feeder Over Flow

Not wanting to redo the great work Nicole just did I thought, well lets talk about the other side of bird keeping, eggs.  I grew up at what I kind of like to think of as the end of the great era of back yard eggs in America.  Happily it seems to be coming back strong, and we will talk about the why behind that today as well.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • The method that my grandparents and almost everyone used in the 70-80s
  • What really killed the back yard flock, yes regulations but not the ones you think did it
  • Just like our grand parents to make chickens/ducks pay off we need to function stack them
  • Don’t over look quail they are the most productive dual purpose poultry in the world
  • Thoughts on procuring birds true local, local stores or by mail
  • My brutal ass brooding method and why it works so well, yea some die, I am okay with it
  • Strategy is a good idea as to weather and timing here is why I like brooding right now and in early fall too
  • Balancing free range, coop and run and tractoring with needs of birds and needs of humans
  • Different Birds to Consider
    • Production Chickens
    • Heritage Chickens
    • Bantam Chickens
    • Mallard Breed Conventional Ducks
    • Runner Ducks
    • Muscovy Ducks
  • Working with neighbors
  • Culling, don’t do this if you are not willing to cull or don’t know someone to take them 100%
  • Some good ways to cook roosters and stew birds
    • Believe it or not young roosters are often good fried old school style
    • Coq a Vin
    • Stew
    • Soup
    • Ground (many options)
  • Feed the best, the good and the good enough

 

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Ryan
Ryan
3 years ago

Hey, this episode led me to the 3+hr q&a on raising quail and also to the Kickstarter page for the quail tracker. I couldn’t find any info on the tracker other than the Kickstarter. Was the idea dropped or am I missing a link somewhere?

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Jack Spirko
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Jack Spirko
3 years ago
Reply to  Ryan

One of the partners became a drag, we closed the “company” but I gave the third partner the green light to make them under a different name after it ended.

Sadly Steve Larken the man we all dearly loved in our community died early this year. He had a stroke and could not recover and was taken off life support and allowed to pass peacefully according to his wishes.

Steve fought a long 25 year battle that involved 2 kidney transplants and multiple heart operations. He never blinked at covid and thank God he did not spend his last 1.5 years hiding from it.

He is the older gentleman with solo cup in hand high over head, overalls on as always. Just behind and to the right of the guy holding the mic at the laptop in this picture.

https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/tsp-fall-21

He was 30 days out from a heart surgery in this picture. He was a hella warrior.

His widow is still running the cage building for now. Michael Croft on the TG group can hook you up, I THINK with getting one or something really close to the design.

That pic is epic and so many members people know the names of are in it. Jessica Mills, Marty Brooks, John Bush, The Awesome Sauce, Charlie Daniels the Dog and I am grateful Steve was there. I did not expect to say all this when I saw your question, but thanks for asking it.

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Ryan
Ryan
3 years ago
Reply to  Jack Spirko

Looks like a fun group and good memories. Thanks for taking the time to share that Jack

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