True, and yep the intestines would be a far different story!
She said it was still all packaged up, so likely fine. As for the yuk factor... I'm really not sure it makes it any worse than knowing it's my hen, I'm still a bit unsure about eating my own birds 😬
So, I finally got brave and processed a few older hens and our ridiculously mean rooster last weekend. My mom came by this week and was quite happy to take a bird to cook up. She has now simmered the bird to where the meat falls off the bone and just texted me that she has found the crop with...