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sean
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Even harder to get hold of. If you can get the liver with your goose that should do the trick. Even without gavage a goose liver is pretty substantial.
Edit, the harder to get hold of bit is about turkey livers.

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tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I could speak to the place I'm getting my turkey from, they do chickens too...

sean
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 1:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Or you could hang around the butcher's, asking everybody who buys a free-range chicken whether they want the giblets.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've never got the giblets with a free range chicken. I might talk to my butcher about the goose liver though.

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've never got the giblets either

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Do you think my butcher would be allowed to let me have my goose whole?

sean
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You should move to Devon, we get all manner of free offal

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

But have you been caught by the fuzz?

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jonnyboy wrote:
Do you think my butcher would be allowed to let me have my goose whole?


I reckon yes

Gervase



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nowt wrong with selling birds 'in feather'. Drawing a domestic goose isn't for the faint-hearted, though. You need to be very careful cutting around the vent, as they seem to be capable of holding humungous quantities of sticky green shit.

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

So what are the conditions like for farmed geese?

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've done geese that I shot myself but not for some time. I want to make sure I get all the useful innards and fat

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
So what are the conditions like for farmed geese?


I'll have to double check, but I thought Hugh in the meat book said that Geese were only possible to raise basically free range?

jema

sean
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 08, 04 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I think that's basically true, obviously conditions vary, but they can't be intensively farmed in the way that chooks and turkeys can.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 04 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My local organic chicken farmer keeps the livers and sells them on separtley, but I don't suppose there are many like him around. It's the only place I've ever had a chicken with giblets from. He does do some of the london markets if that's convinient for anyone.

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