Re: 40 pound turkey

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>>  The turkey was wonderful.  Grandpa roasted him whole and stuffed it.  He
>put him  in at 5:30 in the
>> morning and he was done by 5 in the evening.  He used a meat thermometer
>and he said the turkey was
>> done when it reached 180 degree.  He was tender and juicy and boy was he
>huge!  Here is a picture of
>> him on the table :
>http://www.schizoaffective.org/luckythanksgiving2003opt.jpg
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>I bet you were pretty proud of that
>looks delicious


Oh he was/is so yummy.. the dark meat is darker than what I am used to but very good.  
Is it darker
due to being free ranging or perhaps the way he was bled?  It was not much darker than 
normal.   I
bought him for his feathers, never really planned on eating him but he looked like he 
was in pain
when he was walking, I don't think he would have been walking at all by the end of the 
winter.  He
could not get in and out of the coop anymore and spent a good deal of his time laying 
down.  But he
would still gobble at me when ever I honked the car horn at him..  He had the full run 
of 2.5 acres
and all the layer food (my chickens) he could eat pretty much.  My daughter wastes so 
much food.. He
was about 8 months old.