repost ing green meat from newly processed chicken

[jaku]

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I guess it isn't impossible that it could be prevented, and if it's preventable, I'd love to know- because it is pretty darn gross (and disappointing,) to raise a bird, process it, THEN have to throw it away. It is pretty rare though. I usually get about one bird per year that has it.

 

[dancingbear]

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I don't think your rain gutters had anything to do with it. It's a well-known problem caused by the abnormally fast growth of these birds. That portion of the breast muscle grows too large for the space it has, (and the surrounding muscles grow too large as well, and compress the inner muscle, called the "tender") and the muscle dies from lack of blood circulation.

How would bumping the rain gutter bruise that inner muscle, and leave the outer one, which is the one that would have actually gotten bumped, uninjured?

End caps are probably a good idea on those, but it won't prevent Green Muscle Disease. Anyway, you didn't do anything wrong to cause this.

 

[misspennyloise]

thanks i was just wondering.

 

[hildymarie]

I just ran into this with a hen. Our meat birds are way overdue to be tucked in the freezer due to various reasons.
She had that green meat stuff. A bright willow green tho.
I take it the rest of the meat is ok to eat?

 

[jaku]

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Yup, just cut off the green areas.

 

[chickendude]

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[hildymarie]

How about if the bird is roasted and I dont know about the green, how will it show up? I assume it will just be a darker brownish?
Is it safe to eat if someone doesnt recognize what it is?
I may be giving soem whole birds to family and I dotn want to scare them off with tales of alien green meat, lol.

 

[chickendude]

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Oddly enough my wife picked up one of those pre-cooked oven roaster chickens in our local Shop Rite supermarket. I was carving the breast and saw green meat in the breast. It was the first time either of us had seen anything like it. Since it didn't look to appetizing we went back to the store and they gave us a new one. I would never eat anything that may be in question as to what it is.

 

[jaku]

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I never thought of that! I wouldn't eat it. Rotten meat is rotten meat, even when cooked.

 

[Miltonchix]

I just buthered the last of my November batch of Cornish X's. (WHAT THE %*&@*^!@ FOX DIDN'T GET THURS NITE!!

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I ran into 3 of these "green" birds. ALL 3 were isolated to one wing. On one of them the wing was so large and distended it was close to rupturing. Our first thought was gangreen

but then I remembered reading this thread. After reviewing the details here we simply cut off and discarded the affected wing.
In the future we will only raise them 8 to 12 weeks vs 16. They are HUGE though, averaged 8 pounds dressed.