I've been processing cockerels and some hens and had a question about poop

[SnackMeat]

Often I can cut the tail and abdomen and then scoop and pull, but there's been a couple of times where poop will squeeze out, or where once I knicked the intestine and poop touched the meat.

I immediate washed the meat and no more poop came into contact with the meat, rinsed it several more times during processing and then had it in a salt brine.


Is this okay? Or, if the poop touches the meat at all, that's it for the meat that it touched?

When we've hunted wild boar, if poop got on the meat we would cut off that quarter so I'm not sure what's normal with chickens versus overcautious.

 

[DemeterAD9]

So long as the poo isn’t on the meat for long before rinsing it off and you aren’t sitting on the meat in the fridge for too long before cooking it I see no issues. I’ve noticed too that contaminants don’t really penetrate whole muscle meats that are still intact as compacted to say, the cut area of a breast where the grain/muscle fibers are exposed. If that makes any sense.

We also hunt and sometimes we accidentally gut shoot a deer. Doesn’t mean the meat is bad just means you have to be sure to cut around the obviously contaminated parts and rinse off what you can. The sniff test usually works too, if it smells poopy it’s probably gonna taste like crap