What do you do with all your scraps?

[patandchickens]

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Either I have very rare chickens <g>, which I'm sure I don't, or I guess I'm unusually incompetent which is quite possible

because I have certainly TRIED to peel the feet. No luck, not even using pliers to get an extra good hold on the skin. Mind I am probably not scalding properly (hot enough) when I do scald at all, which has not been all the time. I would guess this is my problem. Cuz it isn't lack of trying

Pat

 

[the1much]

look at this post,, ole Frugal did a wicked great job showing it, and explaining it,,, but be warned,,, VERY graphic pics

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=109583

 

[dancingbear]

Yes! Great link, man that Frugal does the best pictorials!
Shows the outer membrane beautifully.

 

[Jenlyn9483]

We save gizzards and hearts and necks. Chickens we cut up we save the backbones for stock. I also boil the necks for stock and use the neck meat for stuffing or dressing or gumbo or stew or whatever. The gizzards we fry or put into stuffing. The hearts go in Giblet gravy. The livers I save and freeze for friends that come over that eat liver to take home them. The rest of the guts, feet, head and feathers get buried, burned or fed to the hog.

 

[the1much]

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ya he does,,, i think he's my new hero

 

[Acre of Blessings]

My sister and her BF asked if they could have the livers, gizzards, feet and the necks so I gave them some of what I had. My neighbor wanted some chicken feet for stock making. Then we jsut got rid of the rest.

Another friend of ours want the livers form the rest of the birds we will be butchering in a couple weeks.

Ask around, someone may want them. People eat livers, gizzards and hearts all the time. Ask some older people, they may love to have them.

 

[Iceblink]

I have heard that zoos and bird of prey refuges like animal parts. Especially the heads for the birds.

Edited to add; I read an article a while ago about a guy who had invented a machine/process to get fuel out of turkey scraps. I don't remember if it was a gas/methane or more of a bio-fuel. Has anyone here tried anything like that?

 

[Cason]

Bait Coyotes.

 

[Judy]

My sister and her BF asked if they could have the livers, gizzards, feet and the necks so I gave them some of what I had. My neighbor wanted some chicken feet for stock making. Then we jsut got rid of the rest.

Another friend of ours want the livers form the rest of the birds we will be butchering in a couple weeks.

Ask around, someone may want them. People eat livers, gizzards and hearts all the time. Ask some older people, they may love to have them.

I find this amazing. To me, the best part of the chicken is the heart, followed closely by the gizzard and liver. Next is the drumstick. Try it, you'll like it!

 

[obsessed]

How do you cook with the fat? does it have to be rendered? How do you cook the heart?