[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 4, Issue 60/Swans

[Marcus Loidolt]

Hey, Leofwynne!! Glad to see you here again!!
Thanks for the info on Polish Swan, do you have any
info on their period development? Where would I find
any? and how mean are they in regards to the Mutes I
used to have? 
I HATE swans, alive that is, Mutes, I mean!! People
who talk about geese being mean, haven't a clue until
you run across some old cob on a private lake!! Esp.
with a nesting pen!! BTW, Cob and Pen are old terms
for male/female swans.

Abot Johann






>    2. Swan (Lora Weems.Leofwynn atte Gos)
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 05:51:58 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Lora Weems.Leofwynn atte Gos"
> <muchosnombresfarm at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Swan
> Now, to give more info re: swans:
>  
> (relayed from my husband the bird keeper at the
> zoo:)
>  
> Most swan cygnets (babies) are gray until adult. 
> That is why, if you ever see an instruction as to
> how to tell the age of a swan and to get a tasty
> bird, you are instructed to get a bird that is not
> white. (We are talking about Mutes, Trumpeters, and
> Black-necks; Black swans are a different story).
>  
> Well, accidental selection happened.  Every once in
> a while you will have a baby swan who is white from
> birth.  They are not hunted and otherwise taken from
> the gene pool.  After lo these many years, you have
> a new species of bird (the Polish) that is not gray
> at all.
>  
> Swan is quite good, if eaten in the first year.
>  
> Another bird that I don't know if it is period or
> not, but is very tasty and in season soon, is
> Sandhill Crane.  Looks like beef; tasts like finest
> venison, and you cook it the same way.
>  
> Anyone who is within driving distance of Muleshoe
> Texas, you need to take a look at the flocks;
> hundreds of thousands of birds.  I can only imagine
> what all those birds do to farmers' fields...
>  
> Leofwynn


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