Butchering geese ?

[tenbusybees]

How old is too old to butcher a goose or five?

Best way to cook an old goose or five?

We built a chicken yard and now the formly free ranging geese are bitter and bullying (killing) the chickens. Re-free ranging them is not an option as they were the #1 reason to pen up the poultry.

[Maura]

Butcher one and see how you like it. Treat it as "game". Let sit in the refrigerator 24 hours before cooking/freezing. Slow moist roasting.

If you don't like old goose, the others can be cut up for dog food. Feed raw.

[tenbusybees]

That's a good idea.

[woolybear]

Two hours in a pressure canner and they were still tough as leather. Made them into goose corn soup and then canned that. So another 90 minutes in a pressure canner annnnnnd....they were still chewy.
Never again. Had to pluck twice - first time to get the feathers out, second time to get the down out. The yard looked like we had massacred a herd of feather pillows. Had down drifting around all winter into spring. I've never seen anything like it.

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Sept 30, 2018 0:52:47 GMT woolybear said:

Two hours in a pressure canner and they were still tough as leather. Made them into goose corn soup and then canned that. So another 90 minutes in a pressure canner annnnnnd....they were still chewy.
Never again. Had to pluck twice - first time to get the feathers out, second time to get the down out. The yard looked like we had massacred a herd of feather pillows. Had down drifting around all winter into spring. I've never seen anything like it.

My nephew hunts Canadas. He mostly takes the breast meat out. I'd want to use more, but peeling the skin away, larding, and then cooking in an oven bag with fruit or vegetables might at least save the plucking. 

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Strip the breast out, remove any fat, brine and pound out flat. BBQ or grind and make jerky....James