Sustainable Harvest: Raising Ducks for Self-Sufficient Meat Supply | Smallholding Farming Tips
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2024
- Join us as we dive into the nitty-gritty of our duck harvesting. This is how we process our Aylesbury ducks (table, meat birds). Today we are butchering 9 birds for the freezer.
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Great to watch. Never an easy subject but care and respect from start to finish.
So true. We really appreciate that, thank you.
Excellent educational video once again. Steven is so skilled at his trade it’s a joy to watch. It’s obvious that the care you give all your animals follows all the way through to their end. Respect to you both. Xx
Thank you Deb :) xx
Wow, Steve. I didn't know you did these videos until Neil sent a link. Awesome buddy. Dave Dabs
Thank you Dave!
Love your meat processing videos and amazing butchery skills as always 😊
Thanks so much 😊
Finally found a great british homesteading/small holding that do their own meat ❤
Hope you find some helpful videos here :)
Brilliant video Steven is a talented butcher and explains everything as he goes along. I must admit when he was using the torch on his knees I was worried he was going to set fire to his trousers 😅
Same😅
My Health and Safety head kicked in 🙃
This made me smile as Steven and I are worlds apart in the H&S aspect of life LOL - he wouldn't have battered an eye lid whereas I would have had mine closed ;)
Excellent video guys. Isn’t Steve a fantastic butcher?!!!
I used to pluck and prepare pheasant whole for a roast after hanging. Then gave up and just drew and skinned and criss crossed with bacon.
My friend used to pluck on a breezy Bournemouth beach when given a brace as a student! 😁
I found it easier to use kitchen roll in my hands when pulling the skin off the legs.
My absolute favourite stock for borscht is duck stock after skimming off the duck stock fat to use for roast potatoes.
What a marvellous smallholding bounty of food you’re raising. Rabbit and game birds too. I’m sure Steve knows how to tickle a few brownies for the smoker …. 😎.
Really do enjoy your videos.
You always have some lovely information to share Amanda, I'm truly pleased you are here. Thanks for the kitchen roll tip - that will help and for others too. I'll remember about the stock too! Thank you lovely
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure Aww. Thank you. I guess it’s a feeling of reciprocating for what you share and what your viewers share in their comments. It’s a lovely CZcams genre; homesteading/smallholding. I am however mindful that I can easily rattle on! 😄
brilliant and inspiring thanks
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you.
I soooooo wanted to see the crop that was removed from the chicken in more detail! I’m one of those weirdo’s 😂 perhaps Steven could start his own butchery classes!
haha maybe there is need for a second channel!
Great video, very helpful 👍🏻
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
That was absolutely fascinating... I've said it before but watching Steven's butchery skills is hypnotic... time for a butchery channel?
I'll bet you noticed the difference buying a chicken... how did the taste compare with your own birds?
I keep saying he should do a second channel Sean ;) maybe one day. Indeed on the taste of chicken, so much blander that home raised.
Excellent, fantastic and very educational . Steven is a master butcher and it shows throughout the video . I really enjoyed this one , in fact I'll save it for my next road killed pheasant 😂😂.
Love that Mick! Thank you!
I wish I was that chicken 😜
Great video and some very tidy knife-work. Plus 2 tickets to the guns show ha ha!
thank you - made me laugh out loud :)
Fab video, chic, well done Ste, and look forward to recipes from it all.x
Thanks so much! 😊xx
Another great video, guys 👍 Wished we'd seen it before dispatching our first lot of ducks last year, nightmare to pluck, put us right off 😅
Thank you Julie! Always great to hear your feedback. Love what you do!
Really interesting to see the process and the care taken.
Thank you Lorriaine!
Was nobody else trying to work out what it said on the hoodie behind Tracey in the kitchen?
haha a teenagers hoody, makes no sense to me ;)
Thank you for sharing.
I'd forgotten about the torch tightening the skin, always use it on the game birds and when we used raise and sell geese dor Christmas when i was a kid.
I wish i was better at butchery Steve is one of the easiest to follow along with as others have said he explains as he goes in logical way and using layman's terms not the butchery terms. Thanks.
What fab memories! Thank you so much, great to hear.
You know your meat has had a good life. Just a note , I live in a flat, but would love a small holding. I don’t know if this is of any use to you but I by M & S chicken legs, for £1.50 600 grams .
Thank you for sharing that - I'll check them ot next time I am near one! Take care.
Is Steven a trained butcher or self taught? Really ineresting and satisfying, saving as much as you can out of the birds.
We would like to know this too. It's a debate in our house what Steven's day time job is. My husband is convinced he's a butcher for a living!
Yes , he is a full time professional butcher .
Sorry for just getting to this now but finally some time on the weekend. Steven is a trained butcher as Mick kindly said. He hasn't done a course or anything like that though. He's old school in that he was trained by a butcher when he left school and continued on. So yes, a butcher for a living :)
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure Hi Tracy, I was just about to comment on your latest video when it was taken down , Is it down to CZcams ?
Ahh no, sorry for any confusion. I'd managed to publish it when it wasn't ready. I still had some final edits to make and youtube was still running its checks to make sure nothing on it was copyright - I'm not too sure how it happened as it isn't normally allowed. Anyway, it should be back soon as the checks are almost complete it says.
Love watching Steven being a butcher. I have a question for Steven I watch homestead viedo from america and they seem to take the insides out straight from dispatching. My question is why do you leave the insides in untill you butcher them.
Thank you for the question! Basically to fit in with our schedule. We do it both ways depending on time, it's for no other reason (though can be easier to work with when cold and "set up".
Do you rinse the cavity of the birds with water before freezing ? And do you remove all the air from the plastic bags you put the birds in to freeze them ? Good video 😊
Great questions and the answer is no to both - the reason being is I will rinse before cooking (to avoid the ice crystals forming and changing the texture when freeing) and these birds won't be for long term freezing otherwise I would vac pack and remove the air. They will be used within 2/3 months max. Thank you!
Really great video, thankyou that was super helpful. Are all your chickens on the same feed or do you give the meat birds and layers different? Our first lot are 4 weeks at the moment so it’s great to have this to look forwards to.
Thank you. The chicken are all on the same feed.
Hi there, love your videos, can I ask how you stun the ducks/ chicken i would like to be this self sufficient and any info for humane dispatch is much appreciated 👍🏼
I wanted to ask this too. 😊
@@FitforKings_ley
My husband said probably a quick bang on the head with a block of wood I said I hope not that sounds brutal 🫣😲 hopefully they will tell us they are very professional in their set up and very good stewards of their livestock.
Hi lovely, thank you for the question and commenting. It's lovely to see people are interested and care. I have just read what you said your husband said and although that's not what we do here, people do use that method as it is effective and the animal doesn't know it's happening so thankfully oblivious (obviously assuming there's no waiting time or stress to the animal being held beforehand. We have tried many methods here and find the one that causes the least stress is a bullet for ducks. There's also a broom method to break their necks but this can be tricky and introduces stress (for all of us, not good). for the chickens it is a really quick neck break which is recommended and again, least stress as they don't know it is coming if they are used to being handled. Please note, I also put curtains up so our other birds don't see what is happening (yes, really). I hope this helps and please do share any other methods you would like us to consider if you have heard of something more humane. We believe this way is right for us at the moment :)
👋🏼 thank you so much for your reply, and the curtains 👍🏼 that's a brilliant idea, and I will definitely do this or make sure i move them the night before away from the others to where i intend to do the deed, some may think it's odd but I think it's fantastic, the block of wood 🤔 I'm sure is effective, if... unlike me, you have good aim! however I just know I would smack my hand instead of the head🫣 and that would be distressing for the bird to hear my language! 😆 Your channel is fantastic! it's so nice to find a proper English homestead to learn from, and you guys are soooo knowledgeable and dedicated considering you both have other jobs and a family, 👏🏼👏🏼 keep up the good work guys. ♥️
Awesome video! Even better butchering skills! 🤙
Thank you :)