VictoriaTemple
Songster
Help please! I’ve never done this before. The roo I dispatched today (more or less uneventfully except I cut my finger) was a 10 month old Marans/Easter Egger cross. I don’t need to be told he was “too old”, I understand it’s unusual to let them grow up. He got mean with the hens and that was that. Anyway, I had a bear of a time with the entrails, partly because the kidneys and intestines were full of gas? Huh? And the skin around his back end all turned green. Is it safe to eat this bird? Did I do something wrong? The carcass has a definite odor but I don’t think it’s bad, it’s just mature rooster I guess, like ordinary grocery-store chicken smell only stronger. Please advise, thanks.