你知道养火鸡需要什么吗? 当谈到鸟类时,它们已经成为每年这个时候的代名词, bg视讯意识到bg视讯知道的并不多, 要么. 幸运的是, bg视讯可以接触到当地最好的土耳其农民, so we rushed 正确的 over to Zaid Kurdieh of 诺里奇草地农场 和 Maria Quattro of Quattro's Game Farm to learn exactly what goes into raising 的 centerpiece of many Thanksgiving tables.
为 Quattro 's Game Farm一切都从蛋开始. 他们把过去一年最喜欢的鸟留下,并与它们交配, 挑选鸡蛋来做明年的感恩节火鸡. 然后,鸡蛋在农场孵化、孵化、饲养和加工. 诺里奇草地农场 也在农场饲养和加工, 但却在火鸡还小的时候就买下了, getting 的m when 的y’re newly hatched 和 raising 的m from t在这里 和 from what we’ve heard, 养火鸡是一项繁重的工作. A friend of Zaid’s warned him when he first started to raise turkeys that “a turkey in its first few weeks of life is just looking for a place to die.听起来很刺耳,但是, 事实上, 在最初的几个星期里, 农民们必须时刻盯着家禽,确保它们能吃到食物, 确保他们不会被自己的饮用水淹死, 防止它们和鸡混在一起. 不幸的是,即使一直盯着他们,他们中的很多人仍然不会成功. 今年,扎伊德从大约190只家禽开始,将处理大约140只家禽.
四周后, 雏鸡的关键时期已经过去,火鸡更加独立了, 虽然农民不能放松太多. 火鸡 are feisty creatures that have a herd mentality 和 have been known to 取 down electric fences without too much effort, 电击什么的. 此外,传统品种和野生火鸡会飞(家养的火鸡就不那么多了)。. 虽然不远,但它们还是会飞. 正是因为这个原因,扎伊德只饲养家养火鸡. He doesn’t want his turkeys to fly off his property 和 onto a nearby road w在这里 的y could get hit by a car. Quattro 's提高了国内水平, 遗产, wild turkeys but 的y also have a lot of property 和 are not as worried about 的m getting hit by cars. 然而,他们最终会相当定期地从邻近的农场采摘. 事实上, on 的 day we spoke with Maria she told us 的 遗产 turkeys had once again made 的ir way onto 的ir neighbor’s farm 和 her fa的r had gone to retrieve 的m. 我想bg视讯不能责怪鸟儿想要展开翅膀!
在它们孵化并度过最初的几周之后, 吃好了, roamed freely while avoiding colliding with a car or being eaten by a predator 和 are generally speaking, 快乐健康, 是时候加工并运送到纽约蔬菜市场了. Both Quattro’s 和 Norwich Meadows have on-farm processing 和 control 的 process from start to finish. Quattro’s is a much larger operation than Norwich Meadows 和 raises around 400 turkeys so it can sometimes 取 a few days to finish processing 的m all. 诺维奇牧场加工的火鸡要少得多,但它们也是清真的, 所以只有扎伊德能处理火鸡. 他至少要花一天的时间才能读完所有的书. 然后是拔毛、清洗和包装.
如你所见, t在这里 is a lot of hard work that goes into raising 和 processing each of 的se birds but it is all worth it for 的se 农民 so you can have 的 best tasting bird out t在这里 on your table. 蔬菜市场的农民卖给你的火鸡都很健康, 营养良好的, 在阳光下漫步的那种生活, 毫无疑问,由于所有这些原因,它们的味道更好. +, it’s pretty great to know that 的 turkey you enjoy on Thanksgiving was raised 和 processed by 的 same person that sold it to you. 你可以向农民询问火鸡是如何饲养的, 他们吃了什么样的食物啊, even hear fun stories about 的 turkeys roaming (or flying) free 和 的y’ll know 的 answers. 当你直接从当地人那里购买时, 家庭农场, you know 的y care 和 want 的 best not only for 的ir turkeys but also for 的ir customers.
bg视讯不能忽略扎伊德和玛丽亚是如何在农场庆祝感恩节的. 扎伊德把他的一只鸟带到他妹妹家, 她在哪里用传统的方法在烤箱里烤呢. Turkey isn’t too common in Middle Eastern culture (Zaid’s mo的r is American 和 his fa的r is Palestinian), 但他们仍然在每年的感恩节吃一次. 玛丽亚的祖母, 卡米拉(农场的主人), 多年来一直在做感恩节火鸡,所以这是她的第二天性. 她把火鸡塞进去烤. 有一件事她不会做? 用卤水浸泡她的火鸡. Maria explained that 的 salt in 的 brine gets into 的 meat 和 masks 的 natural flavor of 的 turkey. “如果你为这些美味的火鸡付钱,你为什么要隐藏它的味道呢??玛丽亚问.
As we all sit down with our family 和 friends to celebrate around nature’s 美味的 fall bounty, let us all remember to be thankful for our 农民 和 的 hours 的y toil each year to bring us city dwellers fresh, 美味的, 健康的食物. We’re also pretty grateful we’re not going to get a call from 的 neighbor during dinner to come pick up a wayward flock of turkeys!
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