I just feel sick!

[Sylviaanne]

On this thread: How to caponize a rooster Warning Graphic pics - Page 14
On post #134 by MiniBeesKnees, I read this:

I posted on the other thread mostly as a joke but find this referenced thread to be simply incredible information, and the pictures just awesome.

What I wanted to add is...I buy lots of those packages of ten pounds of rear quarters (for about six bucks) which I wash, and package separately before freezing.
They tend to be big, and tough, and I buy them mostly to make my own dog food...anyway...
Since they are big and tough apparently they come from old roosters...and since they do the testes are still in or near the cavity where the kidneys (I think) are.
They are very easy to see and look exactly like the picture. If you ever buy these big bags of legs and thighs with the back attached it will be very informative to look at them to see exactly what it is you are looking for, and where it is. At that point you are inspecting a food item and pain and suffering are not issues any longer.

I have bought those and I have seen those little yellow things but I thought they were just fat. I have plopped those leg quarters in the boiling water for chicken and dumplings and fed them to my family without ever knowing what I was giving them. It may not be as gross as I feel right now but never again will I see one of those little yellow "bags" and not tear them out before cooking my chicken. And neither will I EVER tell my family what I gave them to eat.

Ewww, ewww, ewwww! Sylvia

 

[chooks4life]

lol... Well, while you're at it, you may want to inspect lamb cuts for those swollen greyish greenish yellowish globs of pus from vaccination injection sites. They're usually found in the offcuts but various other cuts have them too. Your dogs are eating them regularly in the dogfood, it's a safe bet.

My dogs get the straight (raw) lamb, so they carefully remove those vaccine injection sites themselves and won't eat them. I'd guess there's a good reason why. But when you eat frankfurters/hotdog sausages etc, chances are you're eating that too. As well as testicles from various species. And that's the least of your worries, given all the other crap that goes into sausages and processed meats. If you want to avoid eating testicles, you'd have to vet your diet pretty thoroughly, because you're consuming them from various species and sources if your diet is anywhere near 'normal'.

Best wishes.

 

[chooks4life]

Oh, and other reproductive organs too, just thought I would add that.

Best wishes.

 

[phalenbeck]

I am just old enough to have met old timers that thought various internal animal parts we consider fine food. We have forgot that all this stuff is likely good for you. I do not eat internal organs/brains/balls/and the like, but there is no reason why we should not, and in the past, and as we get poorer we will again.

 

[Sylviaanne]

lol... Well, while you're at it, you may want to inspect lamb cuts for those swollen greyish greenish yellowish globs of pus from vaccination injection sites. They're usually found in the offcuts but various other cuts have them too. Your dogs are eating them regularly in the dogfood, it's a safe bet.

My dogs get the straight (raw) lamb, so they carefully remove those vaccine injection sites themselves and won't eat them. I'd guess there's a good reason why. But when you eat frankfurters/hotdog sausages etc, chances are you're eating that too. As well as testicles from various species. And that's the least of your worries, given all the other crap that goes into sausages and processed meats. If you want to avoid eating testicles, you'd have to vet your diet pretty thoroughly, because you're consuming them from various species and sources if your diet is anywhere near 'normal'.

Best wishes.

Oh, but I absolutely LOVE hotdogs and bologna! I know they have strange parts in them but testicles? I didn't know that. I will get over it because I absolutely LOVE hotdogs and bologna. LOL On the other hand SEEING them? That will take some work. LOL We don't eat lamb, my husband doesn't like it. Lots of stuff he doesn't like, it limits what we can eat. Sylvia

 

[Sylviaanne]

I am just old enough to have met old timers that thought various internal animal parts we consider fine food. We have forgot that all this stuff is likely good for you. I do not eat internal organs/brains/balls/and the like, but there is no reason why we should not, and in the past, and as we get poorer we will again.

I have not met anyone but I have heard about that. I want to scavenge for edibles in the forest but don't know anyone who does it who can teach me what to and not to eat. Back in AZ I did learn that you can eat tumbleweeds before they are 7 inches tall. You treat them like they are spinach. Out here in MO, I thought I would meet all kinds of people who cook oppossom, raccoon, armadillo, squirrels and stuff like that. We are not very social but I have not met anyone who does that. The closest I have gotten to learning how to cook squirrel is watching Duck Dynasty and Swamp People and neither of them are sharing the details of how to do it. I have tried dandelion greens but it seems like more work than they are worth, the leaves are so small. LOL Sylvia

 

[Sylviaanne]

I realize that. I think it was just the shock of it. I mean I didn't have a problem eating them, they sure didn't taste like fat. LOL Sylvia

 

[chooks4life]

I am just old enough to have met old timers that thought various internal animal parts we consider fine food. We have forgot that all this stuff is likely good for you. I do not eat internal organs/brains/balls/and the like, but there is no reason why we should not, and in the past, and as we get poorer we will again.

It's not an extinct breed, I know young people who think these organs are fine food. Brains, eyes, testicles, etc, you name it, they like it.

I eat hearts, but due to liver and kidney issues when I was young I find the smell of some organmeats nauseating. Particularly liver and kidneys. Some people I know just love organmeats. The smell of most of them cooking makes me ill but if I try I can eat some small amount. But I like game meats, deer etc, whereas the smell of that makes those same people ill, so we call it even.

And there must be a distinction made between storebought and homegrown or wildcaught. No comparisons! I bet I could eat wildcaught just-about-anything, and most homegrown things, but there's not much storebought I can stomach these days. Got spoilt for life from eating homegrown and wildcaught.

Best wishes.

 

[Sylviaanne]

It's not an extinct breed, I know young people who think these organs are fine food. Brains, eyes, testicles, etc, you name it, they like it.

I eat hearts, but due to liver and kidney issues when I was young I find the smell of some organmeats nauseating. Particularly liver and kidneys. Some people I know just love organmeats. The smell of most of them cooking makes me ill but if I try I can eat some small amount. But I like game meats, deer etc, whereas the smell of that makes those same people ill, so we call it even.

And there must be a distinction made between storebought and homegrown or wildcaught. No comparisons! I bet I could eat wildcaught just-about-anything, and most homegrown things, but there's not much storebought I can stomach these days. Got spoilt for life from eating homegrown and wildcaught.

Best wishes.

LOL I like that. This year if things work out right, will be my first year deer hunting. I have helped with dressing them out but never been hunting. Meat is getting so expensive that I have nearly stopped eating beef and don't want to eat so much of the fatty pork. My husband won't eat lamb and so it is basically, beef or pork. I am 60 years old and I guess my dad thought that deer hunting wasn't for girls and then my husband didn't hunt very many times after we got married, then quit altogether. Now that our kids are grown and we are getting to the point where we can do what we want when we want, I want to go deer hunting. We own land here in MO, probably a little under 10 acres all together so we are entitled to one deer tag per adult person living at this address. Sylvia

 

[chooks4life]

Ah, cool, hope it works well for you guys... Here we were just 'cleaning' the herd of incredibly inbred spikers. Someone left a herd to inbreed indefinitely for decades in a small enclosure. Spikers galore, almost all of them are spikers, and many of them ratty and crappy looking individuals. Mangy and hyper-aggressive. Still, makes nice clean fresh deer meat.

Best wishes with your hunting.