THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

greenbee

I've eaten guinea pig. Tastes fine. Just looks rather like a rat when presented to you..

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

I've eaten guinea pig. Tastes fine. Just looks rather like a rat when presented to you..

A pal who ate it in Peru said exactly the same thing.

DigForVictory

I had guinea pigs as pets as a child & there's not that much eating on them. My sister's rabbit was a hearty stew with ears though.

westcoastscot

Karmacat wrote: »

WSC, thats fascinating - have you any pics of what you've done? Even a website or a blog? I'd love to see.

Not sure how to post pics Karmacat, but I used to make prawn creels, crab creels and lobster parlour pots (coffins). When my kids were wee I made playpens out of creels, and while they played inside the frames I made them. Only stopped in the past 4 or 5 years since I was diagnosed with arthritis. I still do a bit of mending for the boat though (and teaching the newbies). You can google for pics :-)

We kept our own meat - lamb, pork/bacon, fowl and the occasional kid goat when the need arose, when we lived on the island, and had a mobile slaughterer for large animals. We had rabbit when we could get them - lovely meat! We traded for venison, which I love most of all.

I'm a bit of a townie now by our standards :rotfl:

Karmacat

NewShadow wrote: »

If you search 'Butchery course' and your town, you'll likely find a range of options - I'd suggest looking for one that includes skinning and 'processing' over just jointing.

I did exactly that, not expecting to find anything, but there were two :eek: prices horrendous, as could be expected round here, but to be honest, I wouldn't go anyway - getting that knowledge from a thread member here would be a really different experience from going to the places advertising locally. Thank you for suggesting it, though, its a source of information I was completely unaware of!

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

How you dispatch a rabbit will depend on where you are doing it.

Yikes. Thank you Bob.

westcoastscot wrote: »

Not sure how to post pics Karmacat, but I used to make prawn creels, crab creels and lobster parlour pots (coffins). When my kids were wee I made playpens out of creels, and while they played inside the frames I made them. Only stopped in the past 4 or 5 years since I was diagnosed with arthritis. I still do a bit of mending for the boat though (and teaching the newbies). You can google for pics :-)

Thanks! Duly googled - I could do the knitting with twine thing, absolutely, found a youtube series of videos.

I'm a bit of a townie now by our standards :rotfl:

Oh boy. I'm a bit scared now, to be honest :rotfl:

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Perplexed_Pineapple

Cappella wrote: »

We stopped because of complaints from new allotmenteers (omnivores not vegetarians) with young children who argued that it "was unnecessary in this day and age when you can get meat at the supermarket properly wrapped and hygienic)..

Did they say the same about the veg they were growing?
:rotfl:
Read this and thought of y'all:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/10-threats-civilisation-ai-asteroid-tyrannical-leader

maryb

You may have seen reports in the papers about the super rich buying apocalypse retreats in New Zealand. Had to chuckle at the Alex cartoon in the Torygraph today
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/alex/

DigForVictory

Alex! and of course the rugby - brilliant!
It's such a lovely place, I'd emigrate for the charm & then maybe grumble at the rarely used shuttered boltholes.
They have sheep like we have rain - when we were looking for tallow, an NZ pal offered to buy us a 55gallon drum if we sorted the shipping. Currently we've two very helpful butchers locally so we declined with thanks, but it was a close run thing!

One local butcher has a custom farm for teaching butchery - which is co-located with a wedding venue. What to do with awkward guests suddenly has my imagination doing laps.

Si_Clist

Cappella wrote: »

... We stopped because of complaints from new allotmenteers (omnivores not vegetarians) with young children who argued that it "was unnecessary in this day and age when you can get meat at the supermarket properly wrapped and hygienic)...

:rotfl:

Priceless. Absolutely priceless.

I do wish somebody would come out with something truly pathetic like that on our allotments and give me a chance to find out what their other problems are.

Beatrix Potter has a lot to answer for.

DigForVictory

Steady on! Beatrix Potter saved the Herdwick breed of sheep & left a load of Lake District farms to the National Trust.
That she was able to afford this because city dwellers already were daft is hardly her fault.
That she was an expert on fungi is missed as her gender debarred her from attending (let alone presenting her own paper to) the the Linnean Society in 1897...
I know, people get all dewy eyed about Puddleduck & Tiggywinkle. Shame on the education they have not had that explains in gruesome detail that tiggy likes catfood & bread & milk are in fact no use to the lactose intolerant animal...