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[Roger2561]

I've been out bow hunting and have not had any luck..  Yet...  I will wait until gun season ends and then head back out there. This gives me a couple weeks to try and get the farm buttoned down for winter and get more wood cut. As far as kids these days, we are doing our best to raise our 3 young sons to understand what a good days worth of work is. Today we butchered our last batch of chickens for the year and 2 of the 3 boys were out helping. It was cold and miserable out there and I told them they did not have to help but they insisted. I try and be a good role model for them and part of that is that they are always watching. Even if they are not physically helping 100% of the time they see what needs to be done.   Whether its hunting or raising your own meat it's important for kids to understand how that meat gets to the table.  More kids (adults too) need to better understand this...

You mean the meat doesn't come from the freezer section in a store? 

I can remember my brothers (7 boys) and my sisters (2 of them) helping dad with the butchering.  Every year a pig, beef, chickens, turkeys, and every kind of veggies imaginable went in the freezer for the winter.  Mom was a "stay at home mom" and was the worlds most fantastic cook.  Roger

[coolidge]

Your a lucky man Brad, my little on (2) goes out with me to put wood in the fire (him at a distance) and my little girl (13) will go out and put wood in, only if necessary.

[dukethebeagle]

most people today see hunting as killing not providing food
the see a skun deer or moose as a carcase not as roast steak or burger.
what a shame.if times got really bad most people would starve.
can`t hunt ,cannot garden,can or preserve food for later
today being a good provider is determined by the amount of cash you make
being a man and providing today includes a three piece suit

[tree climber]

i hear ya on the kids both my boys hunt working on the grandkids.did good this weakend freezers full