Going to dispatch roosters what to do with innards?

[maf2008]

Can I feed the "entrals" to my laying hens? Just wondering? I would hate to bury the stuff, my dogs would get it.

Any creative ideas to get rid of the "guts?" What about the blood?

 

[twentynine]

I get rid of fish entrails and stuff all the time.

1. Put them in a garbage bag, freeze them, take'm out and put them in the garbage on garbage day.

2. Put them in your nieghbors garbage can.

3. Throw them in a bayou, river stream near by. Turtles and crawfish got to eat too.

The blood. How much we talking about, a few chickens worth? Dump it on the back corner of your property, wash it into the soil with hose.

I don't like to feed animals back to animals, don't know why I just don't.

 

[Rootball]

tiny sausages

 

[maf2008]

Good.... But CAN I feet it too my laying hens... I know its gross but....

What else does every one else do? We will do 50 cornish x at the same time! Yuk but I will have to figure something out soon!!!

 

[al6517]

I save the gizzards for cooking and the livers for Catfish bait along with the blood, feathers go into the compost pile. and some inards are saved fresh for coon bait for the traps. The rest is boiled outdoors in the water from the scalding pot and fed to the dog's. So almost no trouble and no waste.

AL

 

[scooter147]

I guess you can, it's protien to the chickens. I would be afraid you may start canniblism.

I simply put mine in a trash bag and put it in the trash.

 

[mmwb]

We've always fed them back to the other chickens. Why let all that valuable nutrition go elsewhere? It does not encourage cannibalism.

Throwing it out somewhere is fine on your own property. Something will eat most or all of it. Consider that it may attract predators that have heretofore ignored your place. What is left will go back to enrich the soil.

 

[Andora]

My dogs love innards. What about freezing them and throwing some to your dogs as treats on hot days? (My dogs are great around my birds, despite for awhile eating a diet of raw chicken and innards instead of kibble!)

 

[phoenixmama]

I'm so glad this has been asked, I have also been wondering.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

I rarely do more than 6 birds at one time, usually less. But there's always an appreciative crowd of layers circling the cutting table like sharks, waiting for tidbits to be tossed their way. I give them all the organs except the intestines, just figured it would be too gross to have them eat those. The rest isn't that much, the blood, skin &/or feathers if I'm plucking, heads, & feet get tossed in a plastic garbage bag and left out with the trash. I try to time my butchering for the day before garbage pickup.