Help with Hare Today order!

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So I haven't had any luck with getting organ variety locally in the ethnic stores

So I'm going to place an order with Hare Today in the next couple weeks.

I calculated that, if all 3 of my girls ate about 4 oz a day (which is a bit of an overestimation) I'd need about 1 lb of liver a month, half a lb of kidney, and half a lb of lung. I figure I'll need about 1.5 - 2 lbs of heart meat a month.

So this is what I was planning on

1 x Chicken Hearts, 2 lbs
2 x Beef Kidney, 2 lb
1 x Beef Liver, 2 lbs
2 x Beef Lung, 2 lbs
1 x Beef Heart, 5 lb
1 x Turkey Hearts, 2 lbs
1 x Turkey Livers, 2 lbs
1 x Pork Livers, 2 lbs
1 x Pork Hearts, 5 lbs
1 x Whole Duck

That's
14 lbs of heart = 7-9 months to use
8 lbs of liver (I get 2 lbs chicken liver locally) = 8 months to use
8 lbs kidney/lung = 8 months to use

I should be getting a freezer soon, so space isn't really an issue. I am weary about keeping meat so long in the freezer. What do you guys think?


I also want to try duck - are the bones more similar to turkey or chicken? My kids can handle whole chicken wings, but the turkey wings are SO big.

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I've never kept meat in the freezer that long, so I can't really offer advice on that... but I can say that duck bones and chicken bones are very similar. I buy whole duck from the asian market (it still has a head and feet *Yuck*) and I basically offer pieces of the entire animal to my boys. The rib cage area is really soft and i can even throw that in my blender (its not a fancy one by any means) and it blends up the bones and cartilage and meat. duck is a FAVORITE in my house. I suggest you add some of the duck hearts haretoday offers; they go over really well with my boys

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I didn't see any duck hearts on hare today

Thanks for the input - I'm excited to try duck!

[Sherry]

If it's a deep freeze(which I believe is what you are referring to), it should be good for about a year, as long as it's packaged properly with good, heavy duty freezer bags. I'd double bag them just be make sure.

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Okay, awesome! Thanks

What temperature qualifies as "deep" freeze?

[Sherry]

Fridge should be 35-38F
Fridge Freezer 0 to 5F
Chest freezer -5F to -10F

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Thanks!!!

[goingpostal]

I know my organ order will probably be around for at least that long, I have a ton of liver, hearts and kidney in there, just wrap it in freezer paper and bag it up really well. I had ordered the duck chunks from there along with rabbit chunks and mine like them both. I see they have rabbit organs now which they didn't when I ordered.

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I'll have to look up freezer paper - I've never heard of it before.

[Sherry]

Here you go:
search.store.yahoo.net/pospaper-store/cgi-bin/nsearch
The one I'm familiar with looks like a very heavy brown paper on the outside, and shiny, moisture resistant brown paper on the inside. It's the sort you get if you order something from the butcher!

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Thank you Sherry!