Processing Day Support Group ~ HELP us through the Emotions PLEASE!

[fisherlady]

thought of you guys

 

[Wax Myrtle]

thought of you guys

OMG! I am literally doing this right now... Am out at the coop with my bathroom scale, weighing myself and then me holding random broilers. Then doing the math. Couple are big enough to plan some broiler processing tomorrow!

 

[Wax Myrtle]

And I see that today is Fun With Avatars Day for Sally... Think I've seen three new ones today?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: HA HA HA!!! funny!!!

And I see that today is Fun With Avatars Day for Sally...

Think I've seen three new ones today?

I just cant seem to find one I like! perhaps that one above? but it would offend some on the other threads he he he

 

[Sally Sunshine]

The new avy annoys me, its not right, note air cell? Muwahahahhahhaaaa

 

[Wax Myrtle]

I'm accused of being impossible to watch a movie with horses in it. I apparently point out each time they either use the same horse under different soldiers, on different sides, during the same battle...

Well, like the loud pink ear to ear lipstick my DD applied, and the wrong-end hatching avie, it's distracting.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

he he he!!!!

 

[fisherlady]

We processed some more of our Cornish X last evening... and one had fluid around it's heart which is an early sign of the CHF, it didn't have any fluid in it's body cavity yet, but probably would have in another few weeks.

I guess it's just strange timing that the subject of ascites came up now... I had Radioman snap a pic since I had removed the heart without puncturing the sac around it.

Here is a heart with fluid in the pericardium.

You can see the yellow fluid in the sac hanging down from the heart. This isn't unusual to find some amount of fluid when processing meat birds or older birds. It is just a matter of their growth rate and inactivity effecting the efficiency of their heart/lungs.

No change in the finished product though...

 

[Wax Myrtle]

Fisherlady, nom. Hope mine look that nice this time. I've been spending the last couple hours enjoying a beautiful day, and I notice that one of the smaller CX cockerels is quite the turd. If I can catch him, I'll mark him and process him first. He has too much testosterone...

 

[Sally Sunshine]

We processed some more of our Cornish X last evening... and one had fluid around it's heart which is an early sign of the CHF, it didn't have any fluid in it's body cavity yet, but probably would have in another few weeks.

I guess it's just strange timing that the subject of ascites came up now... I had Radioman snap a pic since I had removed the heart without puncturing the sac around it.

Here is a heart with fluid in the pericardium.

You can see the yellow fluid in the sac hanging down from the heart. This isn't unusual to find some amount of fluid when processing meat birds or older birds. It is just a matter of their growth rate and inactivity effecting the efficiency of their heart/lungs.

No change in the finished product though...

how old were these again? I wonder if the birds so signs of stress with a heart like that? did they all have it?