Re: Re: Ranch 99, San Diego

[Guest guest]

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> I don't peel the feet either. Perhaps this is only for people who

>eat the feet by themselves such as Asians?

>

>Helen

When you buy chicken feet in the store, I think they

might be pre-peeled. At any rate, they look a LOT different

than the ones from my chickens. There is also the

aesthetic factor ... when you see chickens tramping around

in who knows what, eating their feet is just hard to imagine.

It could be the ones in the store are from caged chickens too.

My broilers have nice, soft, clean feet. The ones in the yard

don't! Hopefully I'll have a good movable tractor for the

broilers soon (as soon as they can leave the light) so they'll

be on soft grass, not out in the dirt/mud.

-- Heidi Jean

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Heidi-

>When you buy chicken feet in the store, I think they

>might be pre-peeled. At any rate, they look a LOT different

>than the ones from my chickens.

I've gotten feet straight from a farm and they looked clean enough. I

don't _think_ they were skinned, though I just dumped them into my stockpot

without close examination.

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[Guest guest]

>I've gotten feet straight from a farm and they looked clean enough. I

>don't _think_ they were skinned, though I just dumped them into my stockpot

>without close examination.

>

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Maybe it isn't so wet and muddy there? My chickens have

feet that look about like mine would, if I went barefoot

all the time. Oh well, it's probably just aesthetics ...

-- Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

Heidi, the feet have a scaly covering on them, the skin is under that.

The scaley bit comes off easy. If you scald the feet in boiling water it peels

right off.

Bruce

> My chickens have

> feet that look about like mine would, if I went barefoot

> all the time. Oh well, it's probably just aesthetics ...

>

> -- Heidi Jean

>

[Guest guest]

>Heidi, the feet have a scaly covering on them, the skin is under that.

>The scaley bit comes off easy. If you scald the feet in boiling water it peels

right off.

>

>Bruce

Oky doky ... now to get used to the concept!

BTW my broiler chicks are 1.25 lbs each now at 2 weeks

old ... I don't know if that is good or bad for

broilers but they sure look huge compared to

the pullets.

-- Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

FYI: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/eggs/res13-feet.html

[Guest guest]

Heidi-

>Maybe it isn't so wet and muddy there? My chickens have

>feet that look about like mine would, if I went barefoot

>all the time. Oh well, it's probably just aesthetics ...

That could be, but don't chickens get dipped in scalding water and/or

steam-cleaned or something when they're processed? So maybe the feet I got

were cleaned when that happened.

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[Guest guest]

>That could be, but don't chickens get dipped in scalding water and/or

>steam-cleaned or something when they're processed? So maybe the feet I got

>were cleaned when that happened.

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THAT is a good point. When I scald my chickens, I'm holding the feet

so they don't get scalded then. But most commercial chickens are

done on a conveyor belt, and a small farmer selling chicken feet

would probably clean them somewhat, you'd think.

-- Heidi Jean