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RE: Smallholding Diaries Week 24 - Microgreens, Zebrafinches and Winter Crops
Haha! Pak choy! Grows in any condition, but not much fun to eat! I banned hubby from growing it after the first lot.
I sorted out or excess male quails this week too. Not my favourite harvesting activity. Harvesting plants and eggs is much nicer. That's a good idea working out the chickens in batches throughout the year. I'm the only one who preps them in our house, so I also can't do them in large amounts. Would you believe I pluck the quail the same as the roosters! It's time consuming, but less waste and everyone enjoys the skin.
I know, I end up growing loads and then feeding it to the chickens - which, I suppose, has made me wonder whether I should grow a little just to have in the beds for chicken food.
I've managed to get my husband on quail duty...he wanted them after all, so he does the processing of them. Though he does skin them. With the smaller bantam roosters I tend to do that too. I feel bad about the waste, but we're going to start doing a little taxidermy so hopefully the skin will get turned into mounts instead.
Well done on getting hubby enrolled! Mine brought a load of pigeons home from someone who breeds them and was culling numbers. He'd have just killed them and binned them, so hubby said he'd take them. That was his job done then and I spent days trying to prep all, over 20 first time and second time nearly 40! He ended up asking telling the guy we couldn't take any more as I just didn't have the time for it and some were heaving with worms in the second batch. Gross!
Oh my! Eurgh. I wouldn't have been able to face that - AT ALL. And over 20...and then 40? Blimey!! I can see why that would've taken days.
It was winter and the wood burner was going, so the infested ones got cremated. Worms creep me out at the best of times!