Spots on meat/diseased bird?

[broke_life]

Hi all,

My husband and I have been processing our first batch of meat birds and have come across some weird spots on the necks of a couple of our birds. First of all, is it normal for Cornish cross to have such lumpy neck meat? They have evenly spaced lumps of muscle on the left and right of their necks, and on those lumps we found tiny dark spots. There isn‘t any other discoloration on the birds as far as we can tell, we check the guts and haven’t found any spots or tumors. Is this normal, and safe to eat, or are our birds diseased? I haven’t been able to find anything remotely close to this online. Picture attached.

thank you

 

[ronott1]

Hi all,

My husband and I have been processing our first batch of meat birds and have come across some weird spots on the necks of a couple of our birds. First of all, is it normal for Cornish cross to have such lumpy neck meat? They have evenly spaced lumps of muscle on the left and right of their necks, and on those lumps we found tiny dark spots. There isn‘t any other discoloration on the birds as far as we can tell, we check the guts and haven’t found any spots or tumors. Is this normal, and safe to eat, or are our birds diseased? I haven’t been able to find anything remotely close to this online. Picture attached.

thank you

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To me those look like neck glands. It is possible that there was a mild infection.

The meat should be fine. I did see a guide to meat safety for processing. You might be able to find it on Google

 

[Folly's place]

Talk to a poultry pathologist, probably at your state veterinary school, and send pictures. Anything out of the ordinary would concern me, not only because I've been handling it and plan to eat it, but for the health of my other birds.
Mary

 

[mandelyn]

Those do look like neck glands but I've never seen them with spots on them. Not sure what that could be.