Processed it, now don't want to eat it.

[PurpleChicken]

I wasted 3 roos once because I brined them in water with too little salt
and too high a temp. If they are bad your nose will tell you.

 

[FutureChickenMan]

that's why you have to make youself be in the mindset that these little buggers are FOOD not pets. Once you accomplish that, it's easy. I have to keep reiterating that to the mrs, don't get attached, they're food. Don't name them, don't marvel at them, don't hang out with them, they're just food.

Worked just fine for us.

 

[2 Beauts]

We just did our 13 week old BO Roo on Saturday. I didn't weigh him, but he sure looked scrawny once I got all the feathers off! I cut him up and baked him. I was nervous to taste him, but it was actually ok. The leg/thighs were a little greasier than I expected, but we usually don't eat the dark meat. The breast meat was pretty good, but since he was small, it was a little dried out.

Overall, he would have made some wonderful dumpings!

 

[Bossroo]

Just think about this... if your great great great grandpa didn't spear that chicken and your great great great grandma didnt put that chicken on an open fire to roast oh so many years ago you wouldn't be here to contemplate the very same signario!!!

 

[chickenannie]

Yeah, i think it's a psychological barrier. I could hardly eat my homemade yogurt the first time I made it. I didn't "trust" it. But now it disappears fast and I love my yogurt way better then store bought.

This is a really interesting discussion because I think we've all learned to "trust" store-bought food to the detriment of good homemade food.

 

[Red Tie]

It is a very interesting chat. I find it amazing how we put our lives and the lives of our families in to strangers hands much quicker than taking it into our own. I assume it is from more than a generation of "store bought" foods. We are so far removed from where our foods come from and what it takes to produce them. I do hope this is a trend that is coming to an end. I know that when we first started raising our own beef, the first bites were difficult. That soon passed. With the chickens it is just the same. I found that not having an entire roasted bird was easiest to get over. Cut it up and fry it, make soup, chicken stew...anything to get your mind off of the shape and the thought of just what it WAS. You have to get to the what it IS. It is food. Homegrown, safe to eat and WONDERFUL!! Consider yourself one of the luckiest people alive, you have the honor of raising and producing your own food. Not everyone does. See how lucky you are?

Jane
Who is processing 5 Cornish X Roo's tomorrow!

 

[silkiechicken]

Freeze it up and give yourself some time. Either way, your bird is going to be much healthier and cleaner to eat than a chicken which sat in a brine with thousands of other chickens, and then is "good by" nearly TWO weeks from date of butcher.

 

[blue90292]

this IS a great thread. i had a hard time eating the first roo i got from a neighbor of mine. i'm not much of a chicken person anyway so i didn't do a great job cooking it. the first one came out too dry, the second one kinda slimy, almost, from all the fat and the extra liquid i put into it (since the first one was so dry). now give me a slab of beef and i can go to town.

i felt so bad for the roo, cuz i just couldn't eat them and threw them away. i felt even worse after reading posts on here about how greatful we should be that these birds give up their lives for us and how people are more in tune with what they eat and don't waste food any more. and here, i just went and threw him away.

i'm still a little hesitant sometimes, but i'm much better. after that thread about chicken and dumplings, i took one of the broilers that hcf processed and sold to me and made c&d last night. boy was it good.

i think the freezer idea would be good. there were other people on here that said they eat salad for a couple of days after processing their chickens.

 

[Red Tie]

Blue90292, I would hope you would be good with a slab of beef.....I mean, living in TEXAS!!!

:lol

Ever put a chicken in your smoker? I know you have one, everyone in TX has one!

Jane

 

[blue90292]

LOL, jane, my ex was born in texas, unlike me, and all he can do with beef is burn it. LOLOLOLOL

i tried doing that with a store bought cornish many years ago. let it sit on a can of beer and smoked it. it was okay.

i just wanted to add that i just finished lunch and MAN! that chicken and dumplings was even better the second time. i practically inhaled it. and red tie, i definitely think you're right. i had an easier time having parts and not roasting a whole chicken. gave some bites to my co-workers and ended up getting deposits for the next time i have whole chickens for sale.