Butchered my first chicken today, and it stinks?

[bonelesswhitemeat]

i just finished doing my first chicken and thought i noticed the same thing
( especialy since i pulled to hard on the crop and ripped it open.)
is that a really bad thing?!?!
but even if the area smells the bird itself i found to be odorless

 

[pattgal]

First off, don't feed you chickens the day before butchering. you will eliminate poo in the gut this way. and it will smell much better
the other thing is when you do this sort of thing most of the time the smell is not in the house, it's in your sinuses, just use some saline solution and rinse your sinuses. you can use the quirt bottle or netti pot is good too. you will notice the difference right away I promise
but please don't feed your chickens the day before, it's really nasty to clean

 

[SethJ]

LOL,.....on a warm day it ain't real fun. I can only do ten or so at a time,....


I normally heat water to exactly 160deg F in our huge crawfish pot,...and i scald with it,..it seems to also kill the smell a bit.

Mine don't smell like poo unless I rupture the intestines,...which i try to avoid,.....try and just scoop all the entrails out with a gentle hand all in one quick motion,.....then I'll quickly rinse with the hose.


Slaughtering chickens is anything but fun....lol,...but it's worth it at the days end.

 

[Poupoulles]

The smell that "sticks" with me is the boiled feather smell from the scalder. Ug. It just seems to persist for ages. Next time I will flush out my sinuses also. Yuk!

 

[CANDLE98]

I wonder why God made insides smell so bad but the meat taste so darn good! I really don't like that smell either, I had to wait almost a month before I could eat it and not remember the smell!

 

[GJ_Kate]

I just did 12 meaties this weekend and I withheld food for about 18ish hours and they were still mostly filled with POO! Yuck! I kept water in there for them and their crops were empty except for the occasional grass seed.
How much poo "should" there be in there after 18ish hours??? Should or could I wait for about 24 hours? I'd like it to be a whole lot less next time, but I'd also not want to cause them unnessary stress for being without food for too long just before their demise.

 

[Jynuine]

What I found is that because they lay down so much their skin on their chest gets a lot of feces stuck to it. It smells awful.
My husband also commented on the first of the three Cornish I raised for butcher this season that the skin tasted funky even though I scrubbed and picked as much dry poop off it as possible.
The two from today I’m hoping fares better since I had a mesh bottom of their cage but I ended up having to skin them because the skin tore while plucking them.
Yes the inside of the guts smell like farty eggs. It’s just what it smells like. Once you eviscerate and get everything into the slop bucket and feathers it should be better.

 

[Compost King]

I started skinning mine since I part my birds out anyways. Not a solution for everyone, I also hate plucking and scalding. Much less set up time to just skin them. CX will sit in its own feces and they have bare skin chests for most of their lives. I know people know how to clean that up so I am not saying skinning is the absolute only way but it works for me. I also hate scalding and plucking. Plucking Machines take up space and cost a lot. Fortunately for me I part my chickens out and the skin just isn't needed for anything I cook.

 

[Compost King]

Slaughtering chickens is anything but fun....lol,...but it's worth it at the days end.

it wasn't fun the first 20 times (just picked a number) but when I started to get efficient at it I started having fun doing it. I like a challenge, and some of the worst chores I find a way to make them a challenge and they become fun. Now i try to see how fast I can process a bird and how cleanly I can do it.

 

[Molpet]

I just did 12 meaties this weekend and I withheld food for about 18ish hours and they were still mostly filled with POO! Yuck! I kept water in there for them and their crops were empty except for the occasional grass seed.
How much poo "should" there be in there after 18ish hours??? Should or could I wait for about 24 hours? I'd like it to be a whole lot less next time, but I'd also not want to cause them unnessary stress for being without food for too long just before their demise.

Shouldn't be that much in intestines... they may be just sitting and that can slow digestion.
Also if they starve too long there may be intestinal weakness. I had intestines break as I was pulling out when I withheld food for 24 hrs

https://www.poultryworld.net/Home/G...wal-minimises-losses-at-processing-WP009469W/