Drying/preserving chicken feet.

[dancingbear]

Moj, you're going to Chickenstock this weekend, right? I'll see you there, and I bet we can have some great conversation! I'll bring a few of my oddments. Maybe you can bring a few of yours. We can have a "show and tell" between us!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Yeah, sounds good - not sure what I'll have room to haul along. I have quite a list of things to remember to bring

I'll bring some of my etched tiles or something, though, maybe for prize or raffle offerings. (or just for sale, if they don't fit into the prize category.)

I can't wait for Chickenstock, so many people I've been wanting to meet....

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

here's something you can do with chicken feet

I bought this on ebay a couple of years back - never smoked it

but I just HAD to have it

too creepy to pass up

meri

 

[dancingbear]

Now that, is a new one on me! What's that's black material between the pipe stem and the foot?

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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it's a rubber tube which is, I guess, to seal it (although it is loose, so it doesn't seal anything) I guess the angle was too much for the stem to turn to make it "look cool" and "function properly" at the same time.

dang, neighbor called, that coyote is coming my way again... gotta go grab the gun and look out for him.


be back -
meri


--- didn't see him (yet again).
He took one of my two month old chicks (broody hen's babies) right out of my yard in broad daylight two weeks ago. He tried to get another one yesterday (chick had blood on him, even, but he is ok, small wound, and the coyote went hungry.)

I guess I'll never get him without a live trap, probably. Unless I want to carry a rifle everywhere with me outside

and I don't have enough hands for that (and I'm not a good enough shot - yet - with the pistol to hit him.)

dang critter.

meri

 

[protodon]

Where was this thread a few weeks ago when I was trying to figure out how to preserve my chicken feet?? I guess I should've started one. I just hung the 2 I had on a high branch in one of my pine trees. They looked good for a week but they they started getting cracked and bloated. I'm just going to leave them out there to see what happens but I think I might try salt or desiccant next time.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

This stuff is soooooooooooooo much better than what my husband used to do with chicken feet. LOL He used to fry them up and bring them to the prison he worked at in SC and give them to the prisoners.

I just showed him this stuff and his creative juices are flowing! He just better stay away from my "good" chickens! LOL

Laurie

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

ya know, as I process quail for Chickenstock, I am wondering... what can I do with preserved quail feet - jewelry perhaps?

I can picture some goth kid with a quail foot (appropriately decorated) hanging from an eyebrow ring.....


muahahahahaha!!!!

meri

 

[dancingbear]

OOO, OOO, I have some ideas! Wait til Sat., and remind me, I'll share ideas. Can you bring a quail foot? It can be a fresh one, I need to see one for size.

 

[New adventure]

I think the quail feet would make great earrings. Decorate them and then poke the claws thru the ear hole like they're grabbing you.

We're processing our first roos tomorrow, glad I read this thread tonight!