First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[cyborg]

Now that the dogs are taken care of, I was just looking out the rear window, checking for maybe the possibility of rain, when a small hawk took a dive at my grow out pen. The chain link stopped him cold, but the chickens still freaked! Went to get my hawk book to try and identify what kind he was, and the wife pointed out a young roadrunner in the back yard being harassed by a pair of doves. They don't want him in the neighborhood either.
Not sure about the hawk, might have been a Cooper's hawk, kestrel, or peregrine falcon.

 

[duluthralphie]

Recent posting demonstrate the wisdom behind the age old SSS....

 

[JRNash]

Flooding when i got off work so i couldn't weigh any of the broilers

 

[bluto in mo]

Butchered all the chickens today. Anyone ever seen the tenderloin green?

 

[bluto in mo]

All my roosters were 8+ lbs. Had one that was 9lbs 12oz.plucked and gutted. If you get the nadya's poultry shrink bags get the next size up. I had a hard time with a 7lbs 10oz bird going in to the 5-8 lbs bag.

 

[Molpet]

Butchered all the chickens today. Anyone ever seen the tenderloin green?

no but I googled and found.. muscle damage from flapping.. muscle dieing
https://forums.egullet.org/topic/14...e-in-my-roasted-chicken-at-the-breast-tender/

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farmerdella Mar 23, 2015 02:24 PM
I process my own chickens too. You can't see the green breast from either the inside of the bird or the outside. It is only when you cut into it that it can be seen. See my other post of today.
It's called deep pectoral myopathy caused by the bursting of the blood vessels that feed the tender in the chicken breast. by the time it is green and woody, the blood vessel rupture has happened at least a week to 2 weeks before. If you have noticed pale meat next to the breast bone, that is a younger stage in the process.
It is not your fault.
Where do you buy your day old chicks? From a standard commercial hatchery?
It's the breeding of the cornish.
I process my birds much the same way you do. I have taken green muscle chicken to the vet and had them inspected for any kind of disease. They were disease free and the diagnosis was deep pectoral myopathy.
The only prevention for this is to force the breeders to change the genetics or to use foundation heritage breeds, breed our own birds, develop our own genetics and hatch our own chicks. http://www.chowhound.com/post/green-chicken-568500

 

[bluto in mo]

http://www.aviagen.com/assets/Tech_...rticles/English/AviagenBrief_Green_Muscle.pdf
Here is the link my brother in law found, they says it's from the birds overuse of their wings. I got my birds from estes hatchery.

 

[JRNash]

To a certain degree it is preventable. It's one of the reasons for restricting the feed.

 

[bluto in mo]

How do you prevent it

 

[Molpet]

How do you prevent it

well that link you posted says at the end : The key to reducing the incidence of DPM lies in management of the broiler flock and minimizing wing flapping.