Can I butcher and eat a chicken that has loose stool.

[ericnash]

Can I butcher and safely consume a chicken that had loose stool? I have 4 roosters and they have to go because I live in a village that does not permit them. What do you think?

 

[BoomChickaRocka]

how old?

 

[ericnash]

11 weeks

 

[WestfarthingHomestead]

I wouldn't.

From everything I've read, it indicates disease or parasites. I'd play it safe.

 

[ericnash]

I don't know what to do with them. I can't kill them, just to kill them. I want their lives to have had a purpose

 

[PotterWatch]

What do you mean by loose stool? Chicken poo has a large range of what is normal. I find that their poop tends to be more watery especially when it is hot out.

 

[DianeS]

I would not have a problem with it. After all, people go duck and goose hunting all the time, and eat what they kill - without ever knowing if it had a cough or loose stools or anything like that when it was alive. As long as while processing it everything looks and smells fine, I'd eat it.

But to each their own, of course.

 

[yinepu]

are the birds healthy otherwise?.. if so then it's probably due to the heat... I would process them and send them to freezer camp so long as all the internal goodies looked healthy

 

[booker81]

If they are breathing fine, and there isn't really anything strange about the stool other than being "loose", I'd call it normal and eat away. My layers range the gamut of "poo" and all of it is normal (no blood or anything, but normal poo).

Check the guts to ensure they look normal (lungs are nice and pink, liver is deep red/brown, no lacerations or whatnot on the guts).

 

[ericnash]

That is a good point about game hunting. I didn't realize that chickens had different ranges of feces. I thought it was supposed to be consitant.