bruised meat q

[miss_jayne]

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i have birds that get 'bruises' all the time at butchering from the flapping....it can still get a 'bruise' look.

 

[mikarod]

I hope this link works:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Vi...X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA877,M1

This gives reasons for bruising.

Here's a site with a time-table to help decipher when the bruising happened:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Vi...X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA877,M1

From the looks of it...yours happened around 12 hours before death.

 

[jvls1942]

birds with chopped off heads can and do bruise.. there is still blood in them for a short time after the head is gone..

I read where somebody put the chicken into a bag and then duct taped the bag tightly around the bird.. why not just duct tape the wings directly and skip the sack??

I hold the bird between my legs and cut his throat while holding his head with my free hand..

 

[Toast n Jelly]

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I looped a rope around the chicken's legs and duct taped the wings to the body and after the deed left it to hang off the fence to bleed out...of course there was movement but no flailing about.