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Alright ladies and gents! I JUST processed one of the CX's and threw the carcass in for soup. I would like to show off some quick before and after pics. One of these pictures was taken in a bit more daylight than we have right now and so the colors are a smidge truer than the one under yellow man-made lights but, well, it's a cell phone camera. So what do you want? When I got these sad, sad CXs I processed one on day one. I was horrified by how bad it smelled and how AWFUL the organs looked. This was the photo of the liver I took that day. I threw it in the trash along with the feathers because it looked SO gross. As I pulled it out it started to rip apart in my hands.I tried to adjust the colors redder to come closer to the ones of the other picture since this was shot in daylight. I shouldn't have. It makes the gross discoloring look MORE appealing than it did when I butchered it. Those light splotchy bits were BRIGHT yellow. This liver was also HUGE, nearly twice the size of a small liver from one of the CX's I raised out early in the year. Bleeeeeh! The tippity tips of this liver were greyish but pretty much liver colored... The rest was just yellow. Picture two is below. This is the bird I had on a restricted diet of FF for two-three weeks. I just butchered her today. Again I tried to adjust the colors to be bluer to match the other one... It just didn't work well. I shouldn't have. The colors don't do this liver justice anymore, but the difference is still violently clear.
This liver is 2/3rds the size, a solid color, beautiful RED color like a really healthy liver. There was some coloration on it that was not completely uniform unlike the livers from the CX's I produce but all around it was one color. There was no sign of yellow anywhere on the liver. It was firm and came out as one piece with rough handling. I think that's about it. 'Nuff said. I know which bird I would rather eat!
