Butchering/gut photos

[Kiki]

Look at this fatty.
I bet he gets way too many treats.
https://youtube.com/shorts/OcgkOg_L4WU

@muddy75 Come see this dummy! I'd steal him.

 

[NatJ]

The intestines look normal to me. They have food in them, and sometimes some air as well (I don't know where the air comes from, but I'm sure it eventually comes OUT as farts.)

When I butcher chickens, they have feed and water until I grab them from the pen, so that's how I'm used to seeing it. (I don't withhold feed because I never have 12-24 hours' notice that I'll be butchering. Either I do it "right now" or else it's "sometime next month.")

As for whether the chicken is fat: I've butchered some old hens that had a solid layer of fat around the abdomen, as thick as my finger is thick. And they were laying and seemed healthy. So by comparison with that, your bird does not look fat to me.

I don't know what actually caused his problem, but if you told me you butchered a completely healthy bird and showed those photos--I would say, "Yup, looks healthy to me. Bleed it out better next time to avoid the clots."

 

[ShrekDawg]

It does take time for them to get fat -- this is why you feed treats only on occasion: So that they can work off the extra calories.
Also, treats like scratch grain don't have much in the way of nutrition, so it's taking away from their overall health over time.
Kind of like how you don't eat a huge slice of cake with a bunch of ice cream and whipped cream every single night -- you only have it on occasion.

idk about cake but I have the ice cream part down

 

[ShrekDawg]

Look at this fatty.
I bet he gets way too many treats.
https://youtube.com/shorts/OcgkOg_L4WU

It’s all the wrinkles

 

[ShrekDawg]

Dawg cook him.
Find the crockpot tonight.

I know where it is but it’s almost 10 O clock

 

[ShrekDawg]

She did not bleed it out. She did a cervical dislocation and did not cut the jugular or remove the head.

Not for lack of trying his head would not come off! He’s got a strong as heck neck I guess cause I could barely cut it out of him either

 

[NatJ]

I know where it is but it’s almost 10 O clock

Chicken soup for breakfast?

 

[R2elk]

Not for lack of trying his head would not come off! He’s got a strong as heck neck I guess cause I could barely cut it out of him either

I never bother with cervical dislocation. I chop the head off with a hatchet. Bleeds out great.

 

[ShrekDawg]

The intestines look normal to me. They have food in them, and sometimes some air as well (I don't know where the air comes from, but I'm sure it eventually comes OUT as farts.)

When I butcher chickens, they have feed and water until I grab them from the pen, so that's how I'm used to seeing it. (I don't withhold feed because I never have 12-24 hours notice that I'll be butchering. Either I do it "right now" or else it's "sometime next month.")

As for whether the chicken is fat: I've butchered some old hens that had a solid layer of fat around the abdomen, as thick as my finger is thick. And they were laying and seemed healthy. So by comparison with that, your bird does not look fat to me.

I don't know what actually caused his problem, but if you told me you butchered a completely healthy bird and showed those photos--I would say, "Yup, looks healthy to me. Bleed it out better next time to avoid the clots."

Thank you! This is really helpful and interesting! I definitely wish I would have bled him out but I wasn’t sure I was going to process him at first and also with most of the other birds I’ve done, their heads came off with the broomstick or if they didn’t the first time, they did when I pulled harder. With this guy I was pulling extremely hard and it still wouldn’t.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Chicken soup for breakfast?

That sounds good