Family Raises Own Turkey for Thanksgiving

Jason & Lorraine show you how they harvested and cooked there homegrown family turkey!
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[@pamelam1500]

How nice for you to gift a turkey to The Holler Homestead ❤. Love watching those pigs eat!!!!

[@kayashmore4296]

Thank you for sharing and giving the Hollar Homestead a turkey for Thanksgiving. So generous and I know they were blessed.

[@drewblack749]

Love that it all was worth it. Those feathers have to be marketable.

[@ednarainey3929]

I prepare my turkey just like you. I love putting herb butter under the skin. You guys give me hope. I'm looking forward to buying my first home and homesteading for my family. I love watching your progress. Keep up the good work. Your living the dream.

[@brendagervais5566]

So appreciate the share, we are now buying meat that is raised grass fed and grass finished. Eyes are open in all that goes into meat sold in stores compared to homegrown. We live in town so not able to raise our own but totally support those who do. Thank you for a great video

[@jsloan9610]

Jason is having way too much fun! 😂😂😂

[@upstater1775]

Love the intro to what’s in the video. Good job

[@southloupriverhomestead4696]

You guys are awesome! Turkeys cook quicker in electric roaster than oven. Thanks for sharing turkey with Hollars!

[@kijuty]

Awesome -- You have a wonderful hard working family.

[@walthartley813]

Love watching you! You get so much joy and satisfaction from what you’re doing on the homestead. You and Lorraine both approach your farm jobs with enthusiasm and a sense of humor. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@chrisconnell9505]

I love your respect for the animals but leave no questions that you are raising them to be eaten, plain and simple. Thanks for educating us.

[@lisanowakow3688]

I believe he made that apparent from the beginning. In this video he states he wants one for himself and then discusses kill cones. I was left in no doubt.

[@charlesvaughn5055]

thanks for the turkey thank-giving video. the turkey really looked delicious. have a great week-end!

[@cynthialewis7080]

Saw you gifted the Hollars with a turkey...

[@lonis7456]

Yes I also saw you gifted the Hollars with a turkey. You all are awesome. They were so happy

[@carlapierle8623]

You are so entertaining, hilarious and educational all at the same time! My only complaint is that your videos end too soon! Looks like you had a delicious Thanksgiving. Thank you for sharing.

[@maryintx4409]

I actually appreciate the shorter videos. Some channels have 30 minutes or longer. I rarely make it through those. I never miss Sow The Land and watch the whole way through!

[@MorrisPatchofHeavenhomestead]

Those turkeys looked amazing! We’ve done turkeys as well and would never do store bought again. It’s so worth it. Looks like you had a blessed Thanksgiving.

[@jillianstolling2602]

Happy Thanksgiving glad to see some of them made it. Home raised turkeys are the best. I hate the butchering but after the first one we did it proved worth it. And yes, grit is super important to turkeys because they will swallow everything they can get in their mouths. Also as a side note, not that it bothered me or that I don't do it too but a male, under a year old is called a Jake, over a year and it is a Tom. Females under a year are called Jenny, over a year and they are just hens.

[@deltorres2100]

Wow Jason,ya did great 🦃 enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your Family Del Torres ,Tx

[@SarahPerine]

Well done! Thanks so much for showing all of that! I want to raise my first turkeys next year and I'm going to try the Blue Slates. I really like how you make your own propane heater and turkey cone...amongst so many other things. I didn't know about those small refrigerators. Cool! I have been a vegetarian most of my life but have slowly started to eat meat and am starting my own farm. I have cows, pigs and chickens so far. My first piglets will be born right before Christmas. I only mention that because I really enjoyed bringing them Thanksgiving treats like you did, too. I cooked and ate my first turkey since I was ten or eleven years old (I'm 44 now). I got a 5.76 lb heritage turkey from the farmers market. Can you believe how small it was?!! But it was just right for this year and me learning everything. I think you got great weights on your birds. They looked beautiful and healthy. I also used a roaster like you did. Lots of fat came off my bird...the gravy has a big fat cap on it today. So interesting! It was a great experience for me and I can't wait to raise my own. Thanks so much for your beautiful examples always!

[@fungisaimotsi4391]

Happy thanksgiving 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@jrsf222]

Simplistic, creative and above all, honesty. A lovely hard-working, gentle and kind family‼️

[@graysonsfarminglifeaustral2778]

Like the cone. 👍

[@janetwithers7427]

Great video. Turkey.. from field to table. It looked so good. I was sick over Thanksgiving so had no turkey dinner and I am craving turkey sandwich. I will get some turkey soon. 😊💞⛄🎅🎄

[@purpletulips4648]

I've been watching Sow The Land from the very beginning and you guys are killing it I love your new homestead You're moving right along with the land, in the house, and the animals and Lorraine you and Penelope have Become Pros with processing pigs ,chickens ,and now turkeys I'm loving it🤗

[@rsoubiea]

i used to have a oven roaster. i anxious to hear how good it was!

[@shelleydetects603]

The big pigs are so cute.

[@stanleygallman7800]

Hoping that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. The rewards for living this type of life! In the end all of the hard work pays you back in some way or another 😉

[@kernalsamazingworld3175]

Happy post thanksgiving day. Good luck

[@hopehealsinternationalmini4291]

Happy Thanksgiving. Great Video. God Bless you guys.

[@davidkilbourne5422]

Great video! Happy Thanksgiving!

[@radmilamiljanic5977]

Blessed holidays!

[@gaylewatkins4685]

Jason, I love your hard work ethic and your sense of humor 🤣 You three are all hard working and a beautiful family. Penelope is very pretty and growing up so fast. Your Thanksgiving meal looked fantastic. Take care and God Bless. ♥️♥️

[@franciscoayala1062]

Merry Xmas for you and your family. Thank you so much for sharing this with the Turkeys and I saw the one with the Goose’s. Awesome job. Thank you and best regards from Germany. 😊😊😊😊

[@lynnee.garland2854]

Happy Thanksgiving. 😋

[@gailrothermund9209]

Happy Thanksgiving! You guys are an amazing family! Will raise turkeys next year! 🦃

[@leannekenyoung]

What a terrific video!! I live in an apartment but I sourced a 14-16lb heritage breed Turkey that was organic pasture raised and raised not far from where we live(despite us living in the big city) did I pay more for it? I sure did $95 and I had to pre-order it to be certain we got one and that’s why the pound isn’t exact because they don’t know exactly what each end weight will be. Was it worth it?!? OMG!! YES!!! Since I was a young kid every time my parents would cook a Turkey my allergies would go crazy from the minute you could smell the Turkey cooking I used to love the smell and the entire house would smell of the bird roasting all day in the oven but my allergies would plague me with difficulty breathing and runny eyes and nose. To the point I would have to go outside in the cold air to just be able to breathe even with allergy pills and ended up one year needing to use the EPi pen on me. My entire life was like that and even into adulthood. I could never eat the Turkey because I would always have a anaphylactic reaction. I was the only one in my family that suffered like this so I’d always get an All-beef weiner boiled up and that would be my meat(I know of all things!) I had the same allergy to chicken but it wasn’t as severe and on occasion I could eat chicken wit just getting hives in my mouth. One day we were at a local grocery store and they had these cooked chickens that were organic, pasture raised no antibiotics and just sounded and looked amazing so I picked one up because hubby loves his chicken! Well I tried it and much to my amazement I didn’t have any allergic reaction to it no swollen lips or runny nose or eyes, no throat closing nothing I was perfectly fine and the meat was incredible it didn’t even taste like what I thought chicken tasted like! So we repeatedly bought these special chickens and I never once had any reaction to them. I was blown away thinking I was over my chicken allergy finally at the age of 56! Then one day hubby was cooking some chicken wings in the air fryer and I was having an allergic reaction, we didn’t even think it was the chicken wings at first. It wasn’t until I was baking chicken breasts from the grocery store and I began having a reaction just to the smell my eyes and nose were running and I was sneezing it was awful. Since then we’ve had both grocery store chicken in our freezer and pasture raised organic no antibiotic raised chicken and they are packaged differently so I can tell them apart when I take them out of the freezer but when hubby does it I have no idea which kind he’s cooking because honestly I was beginning to think this allergy thing was all in my head! Nope it’s not it’s actually something that’s in the grocery store chicken either in the feed that the chickens are given when alive or something in the water when they are processed or something that’s in contact with them. I’ve got a severe anaphylactic allergy to fish and seafood so perhaps there could be some cross contamination?? Or maybe the chickens are fed fish parts? I don’t know but I can tell you I’ve never once had an allergic reaction to any of the chicken that is sourced from a reputable seller that sells or organic pasture raised chicken soooo we decided to pre-order a Turkey from Beretta Farms which is a family run farm north of where we live. Yes $95 may seem expensive but they delivered it to my door and I cooked it and I did something very similar to you with sage butter under the skin and in just three hours the bird was fall off the bones ready!! I have roasting forks that you slide under the Turkey and just lift but when I did that the entire bird just fell apart! I thought oh it’s going to be super dried out! But this Turkey was hands down the best Turkey I’ve ever eaten!! Absolutely no comparison to the dry sandpaper like slices that we used to cut off the turkeys when I was growing up. We got three dinner plates heaped with meat. One plate with dark meat and each breast was a plate heaped up plus the wings and legs! It was an incredible Turkey and I made more then a dozen individual meals plus there were an additional two sets of meals for a family of five. Then I used all the bones and made turkey broth and I turned it into the most incredible Turkey soup and I had 18 litres of Turkey soup! So for $95 we stretched that Turkey to its limits!! Tons and tons of food for our family and for all those people that I share the individual Turkey frozen meals with. My daughter said it was the best turkey she’s ever eaten and couldn’t believe how incredibly moist it was and that was after reheating it! I highly recommend if you are not able to raise a turkey yourself then try your best to find a farm in your area that just might be raising them and NEVER question the price they give you because trust me after watching what goes into raising and feeding these animals(thanks to your channel and homesteading channels) whatever the price is will never ever cover the energy and time the farmer puts in to it and you will feel sooo blessed and appreciative of that meat that you will make it stretch as far as you can. I think when you use every single morsel it’s a way to be truly thankful for that food. Anyway sorry just wanted to share that and just fyi I had no allergic reaction whatsoever when that Turkey was in the oven and when I ate it I had no reaction then either it was amazing. I didn’t even realize it 😂 until the next day when I said to hubby wow we cooked that bird and didn’t have to open all the windows and doors and air the place out (and freeze because it’s so cold here)when I cooked that Turkey!! No allergic reaction at all! So I’m thinking it’s gotta be something that they are feeding the birds or the antibiotics or growth hormones that’s causing my allergies. I may never know but we know for certain it’s only organic pasture raised chickens and Turkeys for us from now on regardless the price even if we have to eat a lot less to afford them. 🥰❤️🙏🏻🇨🇦

[@LadysFarm]

Loved it ❤

[@ann2155]

We harvested some Bourbon red turkeys this season. It was our first time we had someone come and show us how for future reference. I have to say that the turkey size was a little disappointing. I believe they were six month old males. And they weighed in at 13 pounds. We did have one white female. No idea what breed was. She weighed in 26 pounds. Much happier with that one. Next year it will be all whites. FYI we just hung them with zip ties to a cattle panel in the garden. No cones necessary. Actually the whole process was much more simple than I thought it would be. Needless to say we will be raising our own chickens and turkeys in the spring.

[@theadeyemis]

Happy Thanksgiving

[@pnwfarmandgarden]

"On butcher day, if you feel wet on your lip, don't lick it" - Best advice ever!

[@carlaellison2447]

I helped a friend process 100 chickens this past Sunday … my first time doing anything like that. I was able to relate to your method while watching y’all process the turkeys in this video.

[@sarahhead3637]

I laughed out loud many times watching this video. Great educational video with added humor lol

[@SowtheLand]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kcoastalcreations4502]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[@stellaunger8568]

Looks delicious- everything 🦃❤️😃

[@SowtheLand]

Thank you 😋

[@ciaobella8963]

Happy Thanksgiving and congratulations on your well deserved turkey harvest.

[@mary-i7d9d]

Congratulations on raising those turkeys, dispatching them and the end result looked delicious!!

[@SowtheLand]

Thanks so much

[@teresagunther6622]

My mouth is watering watching you taste the turkey! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[@jadaveator4387]

Job well done

[@michellemike1990-JMJ]

Enjoyed waiting for the premier -- loved the countdown, especially the last 10 seconds! Kudos on inventing a new turkey cone 😀 Thanks for sharing your Thanksgiving prep & day!

[@yellowdeer7163]

Happy Thanksgiving. Wow, those turkeys looked really big and healthy. You did a great job raising them.

[@stormy1363]

Will you let us know the cost per pound on a later video? Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 !!

[@allonesame6467]

Love that you shared your turkey with The Hollar Homestead after their duck massacre. Blessings Abound!

[@marilynnew2189]

It is so interesting to see this process and thank you for showing it to us. In the interest of using everything, I'm a calligrapher and use turkey flight feathers for writing. Could I buy them from you?

[@AfterTheRains]

That was a very kind gift from your family to the Hollar family. It takes a lot of food for all these boys! Also, sweet that you treated your animals too.

[@kaseydoty3706]

How did you build your portable cooler? Thank you for sharing and Happy Thanksgiving.

[@SowtheLand]

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[@beckyjo1956]

Make a walk over ladder ,four or five steps on each side, and flat across the top.. (seat). We knew a farmer that had one over fence wires. Worked perfectly. Plus was nice place to sit a chill if you wanted to. And he didn't have to cut his fence.

[@mmegraham]

"What are you going to do with the bacon?" "Anything I want!"

[@paulrice1918]

Great video but someone gave the Hollars a turkey and they mentioned you. That was a great share.

[@vivianwilliams2216]

Your turkeys turned out really great in the harvesting, and that was a very nice looking Thanksgiving dinner 🍽 😋! Thanks for sharing 💕 😊👍💕💕💕

[@jaredcolahan759]

FYI, Ben and Meg told us that you brought over a turkey for the family. Tha'ts what friends do.

[@GaHullbillyRanch]

Please do a video on how much feed to feed turkeys

[@naurta270667]

Hello Sow the Land! I love your chanel and have been following your journy for a few years now. You're great! Honest, friendly, enthusiastic, charmfull and funny. For next year's Thanksgiving turkey an advice l cought from Richard Perkins (look up his chanel, great too) - Soak the turkey for 24h in a 10% brine before cooking it. Keep on doing what you're doing, filming it and sharing with us.

[@theadeyemis]

Great

[@mountainviewsoapcompany5712]

I love your video

[@denisebrady6858]

Happy Thanksgiving Guys xxx I would fly over from Australia just to taste that meal- well done to all of your just amazing xxx Cheers Denise- Australia🥰🥰🥰

[@dwighthires3163]

You need to be commended for your generosity. I noticed that your friends at Hollar Homestead that you gave one of your turkeys to them for their thanksgiving. Hopefully your feast was filled with gratitude and your Christmas will be filled with the hope that Jesus brings. For generations there was no such thing as a kill cone. As a kid we let them flop and our neighbor tied their feet together and hung them over a clothesline before cutting off their heads.

[@rosaolbera8768]

Wow that was big turkeys awesome Thanksgiving day to you and your wonderful family enjoy watching your videos Rosa olbera from Texas

[@curry1227]

You’re truly living the dream bro…HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

[@jerrylovinjesusrhoades6197]

That looks fantastic. Thank you for sharing your Turkey Thanksgiving feast. God bless you all.

[@25Soupy]

I think raising the turkeys were totally worth it! It looked soooo good on your dinner plate. And as for the little pigs, I wouldn't eat the kale either.

[@cassityart7001]

Love this video! Thank you for the detail that other homesteaders are searching for. 🌞🌱❤️🦃. We processed our chickens on Oct 19th during a freezing morning. We learned a lot about the function of the plucker. Clogging happens so we would rinse with bio soap after a few birds. But overall we wished we would have done this on our homestead years ago. Blessings to all.

[@patbroadway5097]

I just couldn’t but I like turkey lol

[@ann2155]

Question do you have any concerns of any chemicals leaching from whatever is applied to the barrel once it heats up? I’m just curious we thought about using a galvanized garbage barrel and use that barrel for only harvesting. My concern is is it gonna leak any chemicals once is heated. FYI we plucked by hand. It was very easy to do.

[@shadegarden7375]

I also thought of that when I saw the inside of the barrel….

[@jbbrown7907]

One of my dreams has always been to have a troop of about ten or a dozen heritage turkeys to patrol our farm.

[@edpeaceofmind]

We raised 3 Tom’s this year. 37 lbs, 39 lbs and 46lbs! We cooked one yesterday and it was delicious!!!

[@rebeccamunoz4596]

I'm so glad you had a wonderful dinner🤗 the butchering went very well to. Cold hands for sure. Those pigs and piggys loved the pumpkin🤗❤👍

[@dannyc9784]

Hey Jason great video as always. Do you slit the turkeys throats when upside down?

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

What would be good is take some of that butter melt it down and simmer to get the flavor out of the herbs then strain it and inject it into the turkey especially the breast

[@charlielewis6849]

Home grown turkey what can u say I knew u would be doing it again . Happy Thanksgiving and God bless you and family ❤️

[@latin95]

Lorraine is an amazing chef 👏👏 happy thanksgiving 🙏

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... Jason and Lorraine nice to see you love watching your videos nice butchering chicken turkey, thank you for showing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐣🐥🦃🐕🐄🐖🌱🌺🌹🌻🌼🌸🌷🏡🎥👍👍👍

[@brendajessup9722]

Happy Thanksgiving 🍂🦃🍁Oh Man… What a Feast 😋 You guys had your work cut out for you. So glad you were able to Conjure up your own Turkey Cone. What a great idea… You always maneuver a way to make things work out !!! That was Fabulous 👍 Hope your Thanksgiving was Wonderfully Blessed. Thank you for including us in your Holiday. You guys are the Greatest.. Until the next one 😉💞

[@vickiemeisinger9632]

I do really think you are some beautiful turkeys even though we’re going to eat them I really appreciated your beauty. I wasn’t expecting their feet to be So-o black.. that was a bit of a surprise for me. I have great respect for your ingenuity and making the turkey cone❣️❣️I didn’t think it was going to hold off to be honest but it did and I didn’t give you any trouble throughout the “fixing” process of six turkeys!! VERY IMPRESSIVE❣️ I was also very happy to see your daughter helping both of you to clean and harvest the turkeys. There’s something about doing that as a family and, she in fact probably has been doing it for years but I just liked knowing that all of you were working together for Thanksgiving as well as future meals with turkey. I could tell when you took that first bite of turkey that it was super tender. The only thing that I think a lot of people would miss by cooking it in the large”Cooker” VS. in the oven and getting a nice crispy skin that is Golden brown…That’s for me I’ll take moisture over color any day. You look like you guys had a wonderful Thanksgiving meal and I’m like you I like to save my pie/dessert for later after the meal has had time to settle. My mom always has opinion that you have the desert right now WITH the Neil, but I was always too stuffed in my stomach doesn’t like to mix sweets and savory. I’d like to wish you all a successful turkey harvesting event that was unique on this farm and I think you did a superb job and I want to wish you a belated happy Thanksgiving. I’m only sorry I didn’t get to see this before Thanksgiving day. I love your channel and keep doing what you do so well. My father did a lot of repurposing on his farm to instead of just going out and buying things. The people that even if you have the money and just go and pay $80-$100 for the Turkey cone, to me you just prove to the world that it wasn’t necessary and you could have that $80 for something else!!!! God bless you all🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@belieftransformation]

Wonderful & educational vlog; thanks for sharing! Many blessings to your family 🤗💕🇨🇦

[@brendachadwick8613]

We bought a organic Turkey as my body is very sensitive to store bought meats, but this 20 lb Turkey was amazing!!! Now I’ve made bone broth n tomorrow I’ll be canning up turkey soup & Broth at 8.99 a lb was a pretty penny, but my health is worth it, cant wait to get my homestead in couple yrs, n raise our own meats, been planning only a yr now to head to the Carolina’s. Love watching you all n learning, prayers n blessings to your family 🤗🙏🤗

[@jamesjessee4064]

Nice video ❤️ 👍

[@SowtheLand]

Thanks 🤗

[@rodmackinnon8497]

Love the subtle humour . . . wicked thanksgiving table display. Cheers.

[@sandyoklahomatransient8557]

Your turkey's looked beautiful after you harvested them. The feet could be used as weapons....LOL! Will you get the same type of turkey's, or try a different type next time? Your pigs are smart.....I hate kale as well 😊

[@janninehaslam9204]

Love your videos, they are so educational. There's no doubt your raising the animals for food however, you feed them the best food you all look after them with so much respect and love. Best educational video I've seen for a long time. Happy belated Thanksgiving to you all xjx

[@victorbenner539]

Happy to see the finnaly of the turkeys. I'm happy you went with the heritage breed this year. I was sorry to see that you lost so many. So I'm thinking next year go with the double breastfed whites and not have to deal with birds flying out. I learned a great deal watching you folks this year. Have a great holiday season 🦃🎄🎉😋👍

[@claudettehernandez3402]

Happy Thanksgiving Jason Lorraine and your Sweetie Pie daughter. Just cooked my Fams turkey for tomorrow

[@marking-time-gardens]

Happy Thanksgiving! Blessings on your day Kiddos!🥰🌻🐛🙏

[@peterrowellranson8649]

Love watching you grow your own food ☺️ and the respect you have happy Thanksgiving Peter Cape town South Africa

[@dianebyrum3696]

Enjoyed watching the Thanksgiving video. The Turkeys looked great. Good food.

[@wendy833]

Those turkeys looked good!! I couldn't believe how much grass they had in their craw. Glad you had a good Thanksgiving.

[@noahvale2627]

If I wanted a pasture raised organic turkey from a local farm it would cost $150.00. Raising my own seems like a good idea.

[@humility-righteous-giving]

pumpkin seeds a natural dewarmer ...interesting!! it also has amazing nutrition for humans, is delicious roasted and salted, but for me to much a bother, so whenever i cook any kind of squash ,i just leave the seeds in and salt it, its still good,but not the same crunch as roasted

[@lailalyberth1926]

Have anyone but me noticed that your subscribtions on KZbin sometimes dissapears? Im normally a subscriber to this channel, but today it got "lost" and I had to re-subscribe.. My internet here in denmark has fluktuated all Day..

[@SowtheLand]

Yes, that does happen. Not sure why.

[@pandorasbox9588]

@@SowtheLand Same here. Had to resubscribe

[@ladyryan902]

Yes. I was told that the new algorithm is closing out subs and actually cancelled some channels that the AI deemed ' hate speech' don't know if it's true but I lost quite a few channels😕

[@jimpokorny4598]

Mr Jason, This was a very good Turkey video. That big turkey cone worked great for you. 👍👍

[@ilzitek2419]

Happy thanksgiving!! I heard you gave one of your turkey to one of your neighbor family …

[@dhawk766]

We raised our first turkeys this year too. We just had two female turkeys but we raised them for 6 months just because we were busy and we were enjoying them. One was 18 lbs and one is 20lbs. We had the little one for thanksgiving and it was amazing! Delicious! So much lovely fat and flavor. We would do it again for sure. Love from Cali! 🤙🏼