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Good Luck on your endeavors today.Today is the day! I have them separate from the other birds with no food, just water. One of them has a scab on her chest where something tore feathers out when she was younger. Can we still eat it? It was probably a possum. I had them in a pen on the grass one night and it must have slept next to the wire and the chunk of feathers was torn out. It was about a month ago.
I butchered a hen who had been injured several months before by the over zealous attentions of my rooster. There was a scabby area on her skin, and the flesh under it had some tough, scar tissue. I'm sure that there would have been nothing wrong with eating the scar tissue, but for the sake of appearances, I cut it out after she had been cooked.Today is the day! I have them separate from the other birds with no food, just water. One of them has a scab on her chest where something tore feathers out when she was younger. Can we still eat it? It was probably a possum. I had them in a pen on the grass one night and it must have slept next to the wire and the chunk of feathers was torn out. It was about a month ago.
I ran into this problem with a couple of the bigger CX I did earlier this year. My solution was to use a rope with a slip knot to hang the bird next to the cone, cut the throat, then quickly lift the bleeding bird into the cone to bleed out. It worked well. There was some splatter getting the bird into the cone, but after that it was just a normal bleed out. I left the slip knot on until the bird was done moving. It is not perfect, but it is a lot better than sticking my hand up into the (bloody) cone to try to find the bird's head, and then feeling like I was going to pull the head off trying to get it low enough to get a good cut.Congratulations on "gettin' 'er done". I had a similar problem with the Cornish X I butchered this spring. Their shoulders were so wide and their necks were so short that the cone I had used with my Freedom Rangers the summer before didn't work very well.