Guest guest Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 We killed our first chickens on Sunday. 1st one was a bit of a mess...skin got torn badly enough while plucking that we just took it off; also we lost the liver because I accidentally popped the gall bladder. :-( Cooked it last night and it tasted great though. And 2nd one went much better I washed up the feet and froze them for stock. Are they OK to use that way? skinning looked like a bunch of unnecessary work. -- Quick, USUM (ret.) www.en.com/users/jaquick " Every people deserves the regime it is willing to endure. " --the White Rose, leaflet #1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 chicken scratchers We killed our first chickens on Sunday. 1st one was a bit of a mess...skin got torn badly enough while plucking that we just took it off; also we lost the liver because I accidentally popped the gall bladder. :-( Cooked it last night and it tasted great though. And 2nd one went much better I washed up the feet and froze them for stock. Are they OK to use that way? skinning looked like a bunch of unnecessary work. -- , I grew up in a Jewish household where chicken feet was a common dietary staple. My mother never got them skinned. Nenah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 , and how did you kill them, if it is appropriate to tell how on this forum? Or did you have them killed? We also have a few hens in the yard, but we can't manage to do the killing. So we have to ask our neighbour. This is a shame. I wonder if I can ever overcome this inadequacy. Because the meat tastes really great, much better than ordinary chicken, though it requires longer cooking. José --- In , " Nenah Sylver " <nenah@b...> wrote: > > chicken scratchers > > > We killed our first chickens on Sunday. 1st one was a bit of a > mess...skin got torn badly enough while plucking that we just took it > off; also we lost the liver because I accidentally popped the gall > bladder. :-( Cooked it last night and it tasted great though. And 2nd > one went much better > > I washed up the feet and froze them for stock. Are they OK to use > that way? skinning looked like a bunch of unnecessary work. > -- > > , > I grew up in a Jewish household where chicken feet was a common dietary > staple. My mother never got them skinned. > > Nenah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 >, and how did you kill them, if it is appropriate to tell how >on this forum? Or did you have them killed? > >We also have a few hens in the yard, but we can't manage to do the >killing. So we have to ask our neighbour. This is a shame. I wonder >if I can ever overcome this inadequacy. Because the meat tastes >really great, much better than ordinary chicken, though it requires >longer cooking. > >José > We shot a rooster with a compound bow with a broadhead tipped arrow this weekend and it was very humane and instant (thank God). He wasn't killed for food, but he was a problem for the hens. He died instantly with a neck shot and never knew what hit him, as he wasn't brought into some " room " to be " done. " Were he a meat bird and not a scrawny Silkie Bantam, we would have opted for the neck slitting operation. Things are a lot quieter around here now. José, this forum has seen much more colorful topics dragged through the mud. So long as we all post friendly (or within general netiquette guidelines) then all is fair. Right ? Deanna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 > Message: 19 > Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 21:22:16 -0000 > From: José Barbosa <jcmbarbosa52@...> > Subject: Re: chicken scratchers > > , and how did you kill them, if it is appropriate to tell how > on this forum? Or did you have them killed? > We chopped their heads off. I didn't have a killing cone (actually, we had a traffic cone but it looked way too big and awkward to use) and some of the fancy knife methods in the books looked like they could go quite awry with a struggling bird. So a meat cleaver, a cutting board, and then we held them by the feet over a bucket. The 2nd was a cleaner faster kill than the first, and further experiments will be easier yet. We did it in the shade of our apple tree, at high noon. > We also have a few hens in the yard, but we can't manage to do the > killing. So we have to ask our neighbour. This is a shame. I wonder > if I can ever overcome this inadequacy. Because the meat tastes > really great, much better than ordinary chicken, though it requires > longer cooking. > We thought we'd get grossed out over the gutting, but we were fine with it. We'd taken our chosen victims from the henhouse at nightfall and put them in another place without food, just water, to empty their crops. Catching them in that place was a little adventure, but not too difficult overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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