Pioneer the cockerel bids you all a good morning

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Goatboy

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Well that attracts attention in a café when you forget to turn the laptop speakers down. :lmao:

He's a handsome looking chap. Was he back to his cherry leaf duties while up there Red?
 

British Red

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Well that attracts attention in a café when you forget to turn the laptop speakers down. :lmao:

He's a handsome looking chap. Was he back to his cherry leaf duties while up there Red?

He still has a nibble Colin but hes munching on all those Cauli leaves mostly :)

He is only just learning to crow as hes just becoming mature now - you can see his comb and wattle reddening and growing by the day.

He hasn't got a long future but every cockerel should get to crow :)
 

Harvestman

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Tell him to keep the noise down. Some of us are a bit fragile this morning. Something to do with a visit to the Westons cider factory yesterday, possibly :rolleyes:
 

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Tell him to keep the noise down. Some of us are a bit fragile this morning. Something to do with a visit to the Westons cider factory yesterday, possibly :rolleyes:

Let me know next time you are intemparate and I'll sneak him under your bed!
 

Goatboy

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A fitting send off for him. Boy he looks tasty, good set of drumsticks on him. Did he taste good?
I like the clay chook cooker, birds come out nice & moist in them. You been using it long?

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.
 

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Several years on the chicken brick Colin. BB uses it well - soaks for 30 minutes then squeezes lime and lemons into it. As you say, really moist.

He was delicious - drumsticks were huge. I used one of Duncans knives to prep him and its fine point was excellent as a "bird and trout".

I'll have a stir fry tomorrow from the breast and BB a drumstick. Carcass is in the stock bag in the freezer and trimmings will go to chicken and sweetcorn soup. None of him will be wasted!
 

Tengu

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Alas poor Pioneer...No doubt he was very tasty.

I was given a chicken brick but have never used it...I wait until the birds in the supermarket grill are half price and buy a couple...Not the most gourmandierly way of getting chickens, but I am skint.
 

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Chicken bricks are excellent - highly recommended as a way to infuse flavour and keep a bird moist
 

Goatboy

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Nice with some wild garlic, mushrooms & an unchecked corn head in there. Gives it a real earthy taste. Nice to hear you using him all up, amazes me how much folk don't use up from a chicken these days.

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Tengu

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Ah, and there is me has a roast once in a blue moon due to living on own.

I assume it wouldnt do for a small duck as theres no way to drain the fat? I was going to ask for a duck as a christmas treat. (Turkey is nice but to my mind hardly a treat, me who lives on my fellow dinosaurs...)
 

santaman2000

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Nice with some wild garlic, mushrooms & an unchecked corn head in there. Gives it a real earthy taste. Nice to hear you using him all up, amazes me how much folk don't use up from a chicken these days.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

Absolutely true.

I'd rather use the livers for catfish bait but they're good fried:



Chicken feet:

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