Butchered chicken turned red in fridge

[amyisrich]

Hi! I butchered a year old white leghorn this morning and put him in the fridge. This afternoon the skin is all flushed and red. Is this normal? Is he edible? Did I do something wrong?

 

[nuthatched]

Did you hang him out to bleed?
The meat is fine, though.

 

[FunClucks]

Pictures???

Does the carcass smell bad?

Did you pluck or skin and then take all the entrails out before putting the carcass in the fridge?

Did you stack the carcass against/under anything, or set it on a shelf with plenty of air circulation around it? Was it inside a bag inside the fridge?

DId you cool the carcass off by rinsing it with running water (hose) or soak it in ice water bath before you put it in the fridge? If so, how long was it in the ice water bath?

 

[FunClucks]

How did you slaughter the bird, and if you bled him out, what technique did you use?

 

[amyisrich]

Did you hang him out to bleed?
The meat is fine, though.

Yes. I did hang him to bleed.

 

[amyisrich]

Pictures???

Does the carcass smell bad?

Did you pluck or skin and then take all the entrails out before putting the carcass in the fridge?

Did you stack the carcass against/under anything, or set it on a shelf with plenty of air circulation around it? Was it inside a bag inside the fridge?

DId you cool the carcass off by rinsing it with running water (hose) or soak it in ice water bath before you put it in the fridge? If so, how long was it in the ice water bath?

He doesn't smell bad, I plucked him and then eviscerated. Then I rinsed him under cold running water--all before the fridge. I just wrapped some saran wrap around him in the fridge

 

[amyisrich]

How did you slaughter the bird, and if you bled him out, what technique did you use?

 

[amyisrich]

I used the broomstick method for slaughtering. As for bleeding out, I just removed the head off and hung him up from the back of one of my patio chairs until no more blood came out.

 

[amyisrich]

 

[amyisrich]

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This is how I bled him out.