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Hmmm lol traffic stop up the road yesterday on the way to get second cut hay..

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They are domestic muscovy ducks
So they must belong to one of the 2 houses.

I thought they were going to cross the road... I waited they didn't so i got out and shooed him over cause a bloody moron was now behind me in a big time hurry to pass.
People are in such a GD hurry and this being a cut thru road makes it all the worse GET UP 5 MINUTES EARLIER YOU A...H...

I heard LOTS OF SHOTS around yesterday morning.
It turns out it was the first day of muzzle loader season for deer.

Hunters Trucks were parked all along the roads.

A huge buck ran across the road in front of me the next road over.

Later on when I went to get first cut hay
I go the other way on this road and past the deer processing guy about 1.5 miles up my road.
OMG lots of deer were taken yestetday

He was blockbuster full with all his stanchions having hanging deer being skinned and many trucks waiting with deer to be processed.

I could never hunt and do understand herds need to be kept in check to remain healthy and they are not trophy kills but a food source....
It was hard to pass buy and see SOOOOO MANY KILLS.
 
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Oh i get you about the cut through road! Our lane runs parallel to a busy main road, with access at both ends, so we get the idiots trying to leapfrog the stationary traffic in rush hour by using it as a rat run. They barrel along it at 40mph, despite it being single track. I worry about the cats from the various yards, and just pray a car doesn't fly round the bend and not see me and Hogan.
 
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It is annoying isn't it.
Everyone is in such a hurry.

I used to go down a nasty little narrow road with the horse trailer when I rode w that doctor.
Like this road it was part paved part dirt.
When they started to build houses on it.
It wasn't just idiot cars it was big construction vehicles.
There was a horse propery about in the middle.
The kid rode along the road heading someplace.
She was hit both her and the horse were tossed over a stone wall.
Both badly injured.

I also totally hate people that ride up my
A.... when I'm doing the speed limit.
I'm NOT GOING OVER THE LIMIT
cause you in a BLOODY HURRY.
 
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I'm rarely out at night.
There are some benefits.
I'm more of getting to stores REALLY REALLY early to avoid crowds.

The few stores we had to go to were Really EMPTY of people...the football games on probably helped that though.

The sunset was georgous.

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This is an ALPACA farm.
The blowups were nice.
It's a cute little accessory barn they built near their entrance a couple of years ago.

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I ordered venison last week with our weekly groceries delivery and though it was listed and the season is right, they were out of stock. We used to go to Borough Market especially or Kingston market and could buy wild hare too.
 
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We don't see any if that here.
There is very little lamb in stores.
I've never seen venison or rabbit.

There is occationally a little bison.

There are a couple bison farms not too far into Connecticut that sell their meat.

I've only ever had a bison hamburger at
Fairs when the farms have their stalls set up selling them.

Its quite good.

The only rabbit I ever had was in Germany
After the huge turn off it was good but nevet again....
It was frozen in box..
Basically NOT CLEANED..
a whole bloody frozen rabbit.

That was beyond GROSS..

WAS IT A FLUKE WHO KNOWS.

but it CLEARLY WAS NOT COOKING READY.

Trying to clean to cook was
Totally disgusting.
 
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horseandgoatmom said:
We don't see any if that here.
There is very little lamb in stores.
I've never seen venison or rabbit.

There is occationally a little bison.

There are a couple bison farms not too far into Connecticut that sell their meat.

I've only ever had a bison hamburger at
Fairs when the farms have their stalls set up selling them.

Its quite good.

The only rabbit I ever had was in Germany
After the huge turn off it was good but nevet again....
It was frozen in box..
Basically NOT CLEANED..
a whole bloody frozen rabbit.

That was beyond GROSS..

WAS IT A FLUKE WHO KNOWS.

but it CLEARLY WAS NOT COOKING READY.

Trying to clean to cook was
Totally disgusting.
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Yes it's quite a skill gutting and cleaning rabbit and indeed pheasant! Mr Trews can do both, but it is messy. And I'd rather it was oven-ready so to speak. I have never had bison, though I have seen it for sale over here.
There's plenty of lamb where I am.
 
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They are quite expensive to buy on line and we may need to use the French online grocer. Farmed rabbits from France come only partly cleaned. The head is left on (it is eaten in some cultures and I usually cook it) and the liver and heart are eaten too. Wild rabbit from the market ore covid also with just guts removed. Wild rabbit and hare are usually cheap, skinny dark meat with danger of lead shot still in them. Very different from farmed rabbit and I use those for pasta sauce..
 
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And about the Rabbit. When I was at school we did Rabbit in O level GCE biology. My own daughters did not have that experience at school, so I bought a whole rabbit and simmered it to remove and re-assemble the skeleton to show my daughters. I still have one of the leg bones, really shiny by now.
 
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Skib said:
They are quite expensive to buy on line and we may need to use the French online grocer. Farmed rabbits from France come only partly cleaned. The head is left on (it is eaten in some cultures and I usually cook it) and the liver and heart are eaten too. Wild rabbit from the market ore covid also with just guts removed. Wild rabbit and hare are usually cheap, skinny dark meat with danger of lead shot still in them. Very different from farmed rabbit and I use those for pasta sauce..
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I have never had farmed rabbit thankfully. Where I come from it is all free range and locally caught. Mr Trews family are all very much part of the shooting fraternity. The lead shot is all part and parcel of eating wild meat. You soon learn to savour the dish and be wary of the lead shot! I would rather have a skinny wild rabbit for dinner any day than factory farmed. Personal preference I suppose and what you are brought up with.
 
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horseandgoatmom said:
Over here when you buy a whole Turkey or chicken there is a GIBLETS pack inside
with the neck.. gizzard ..heart.. liver In the little bag but thats it.
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Used to be like that in England. Like many things, it stopped with EU health regulations. If you go to a halal or Jewish butcher you can buy giblets separately (for soup) but Covid lock down limits us to supermarket deliveries. Unless I move right up market to the poshest butcher.
 
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Hmm SKIB now you have me thinking...

We used to have packages of gizzards etc
right at the grocery store.

I don't think we have that anymore here either.

For the most part proper butchers and bakeries are a thing of the past here with the gigantic grocery stores now.

The grocery store even with some in store baking just don't cut it...
I remember going on sunday mornings with my mother to the lovely bakery in
Wyckoff and getting snowflake rolls and yummy cupcakes etc.

I don't ever remember being to a butcher shop though.
 
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This could have been a disaster this am
I forgot to shut Andi,s top gate when I went in.

All of a sudden she had flown into third area then into Sonny

WHO WAS NOT PLEASED AT ALL

The brat wasn't going to let me catch her either.
She would flit away LAUGHING AND BUCKING.

Im glad i have a configuration of a few gates to get her in the laneway between the 3 areas and have the gate into there from her area open.

Such a little brat..

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It didnt get really cold last nite it was 50f
Because of the heavy overcast.

It was really pretty with the dark sky when the sun was trying to pop.

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