BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[Kusanar]

Ok guys, weird question. I buy chicken leg quarters for my cats, the part that has some spine and ribs also typically has some dark red, brain textured, squishy and easily broken up meat stuff crammed up against it.... what am I looking at?

 

[rachelsflock]

I'm a lurker here, but maybe blood clots?

 

[stryker]

Ok guys, weird question. I buy chicken leg quarters for my cats, the part that has some spine and ribs also typically has some dark red, brain textured, squishy and easily broken up meat stuff crammed up against it.... what am I looking at?

Pic please. I am guessing Kidney from my guess????

 

[stryker]

This bird's color pattern is a sort of White Laced Red. Like the Cornish White Lace Red patterning.


Dark Chocolate Red

That is one pretty bird! I don't like white colored birds but that bird sure would changes my mind.. The other red and white one looks nice as well.

 

[Kusanar]

I'm a lurker here, but maybe blood clots? 

Not blood clots, too uniform and predictable for that... has to be a valid part of the bird...

Ok guys, weird question. I buy chicken leg quarters for my cats, the part that has some spine and ribs also typically has some dark red, brain textured, squishy and easily broken up meat stuff crammed up against it.... what am I looking at?

Pic please. I am guessing Kidney from my guess???? 

Just chopped up a bunch, I'll see if I can find any intact ones and get a pic tomorrow.

 

[bramblefir]

Ok guys, weird question. I buy chicken leg quarters for my cats, the part that has some spine and ribs also typically has some dark red, brain textured, squishy and easily broken up meat stuff crammed up against it.... what am I looking at?

Sounds like bits of organ meat. If it were a brighter red I would say lungs because they do tend to stick to the ribs. However, since you say it's darker I would say probably kidney or liver pieces. Either way, it's extra nutritious for your cats.

 

[Beer can]

Probably not lungs, they are distinctive, light pink. Anybody that has processed there own knows the crap thats inside a chicken. Big processing companies use mechanical means to get the crap out, they somehow get the lungs out. Everything else is a crapshoot. I dig it all out with my fingers. If you buy a whole chicken you have the extra stuff. We bought two ten pound packs of chicken leg quarters last yr for .29 cents a pound, can't go wrong with that price. Marinated and grilled up one package, the other is still in our freezer, still good, just wow, stuff on them, and some broken legs...
We'd rather eat our own. Will probably do something with them eventually, just not while there is much yummyer choices in the freezer.

 

[Turk Raphael]

PINK CHAPS!

I expect to see a few like this hanging around the warf dives in the lesser desired saloons around Porto Alegre.

Hell, I've seen worse hanging around the outside of (I'd never go in) Purrswaytion Club in one of the seediest parts of down-town Louisville.

Regardless, it does give that Naked the look of a 'Working Bird'.

 

[Turk Raphael]

I have a 17 week old pullet very much like this one. She too is a beauty but I expect she might likely develop more reddish feathers with subsequent molts.

Mine are very easy going, not too pushy at all. Despite the very colorful birds in this hatch, my absolute favorite is a raven-black pullet and second is a massive cockerel who knows he runs the show. I feared he would not stop growing and would have to be slaughtered but he has moderated and can run and fly well enough, all things considered. He weight about 6.5 pounds but has moderated his own feed intake and seems to be stable.

I've wormed every bird on the place (except the 2-week old Dominique cockerel chicks). I do plan to get pics before I take to vacation because I wan't Kev to see the black pullet above all. Naturally, I'll have a question or two for him.

 

[Kusanar]

Probably not lungs, they are distinctive, light pink. Anybody that has processed there own knows the crap thats inside a chicken. Big processing companies use mechanical means to get the crap out, they somehow get the lungs out. Everything else is a crapshoot. I dig it all out with my fingers. If you buy a whole chicken you have the extra stuff. We bought two ten pound packs of chicken leg quarters last yr for .29 cents a pound, can't go wrong with that price. Marinated and grilled up one package, the other is still in our freezer, still good, just wow, stuff on them, and some broken legs...
We'd rather eat our own. Will probably do something with them eventually, just not while there is much yummyer choices in the freezer.

Yeah, the store bought raw chicken is better for the cats than commercial cat food, and I don't have my own birds to give them... and anyway, I go through 20+ pounds of chicken per week, that would be a LOT of birds to raise for the cats....