What do you do with the innards?

[al6517]

I keep and freeze the Gizzards, heart, for giblet gravey. I save the blood and livers for catfish bait, The entrails and all the others go into a bucket for chum on the lake. feathers, head, feet all go into the compost pile. nothing goes to waste.

AL

 

[Moabite]

You throw it all in a pot and boil it til it's mushy, put it in the food processor bones and all. Pulverize it til it one homogeneous unit. Run it through a sieve then make little breaded nuggets and patties and fry it. Feed it to the kids, they actually prefer it. Yum, fast food!

On a more serious note, Country Fried Gizzards are fun to eat

 

[wood&feathers]

Yup Al, you ever make chum blocks? Just keep a bucket you can freeze entrails etc, then strap a milk crate on the back of the boat and drop the frozen block in.

I haven't done it in a while. Seems like there isn't anything left by the time the chickens and dog get done. I keep hearts, gizzards and livers for us. Plus one of the joys of killing mature, free ranged birds is I can use the long, sturdy leg bones for crafts. I keep the feathers from them as well, if they aren't Cornish Xs.

 

[al6517]

wood&feathers :

Yup Al, you ever make chum blocks? Just keep a bucket you can freeze entrails etc, then strap a milk crate on the back of the boat and drop the frozen block in.

I haven't done it in a while. Seems like there isn't anything left by the time the chickens and dog get done. I keep hearts, gizzards and livers for us. Plus one of the joys of killing mature, free ranged birds is I can use the long, sturdy leg bones for crafts. I keep the feathers from them as well, if they aren't Cornish Xs.

I do freeze the buckets them put them in a burlap sac with some corn in it, wiegh it down and chunk it where we plan to fish for the weekend. It's a magnet I tell-ya.

AL​

 

[Looking4ewes]

I feed it to the pigs. I also collect he blood after processing and feed it to the pigs or back to the chickens. I was amazed at how quickly the chickens cleaned up the congealed blood collected in a tub.

 

[kooltex]

What the chickens won't eat, which isn't much, goes to compost, or fish bait. And soon, to my future pigs

 

[HHandbasket]

Thank you for all the great suggestions! I still have no clue when we're going to enter into this adventure, but hopefully it won't be too long.

 

[draye]

Feed to the dog and cats, except the gizzard and heart.

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

I have a couple of anaerobic compost bins for citrus peels, onion trimmings, meat and dairy waste. (Everything else goes to poultry or worm bins.)

When both bins are full, the oldest goes into the drum composter with lots of used litter, etc., to compost aerobically. After that, I just spread it on the ground and let the poultry scratch at it until it's well incorporated into the soil.

Easy to do, but the smell is almost unbearable....

 

[17roses]

The feet work great for soup though they are a bit of work as I boil & skin them for making the broth. The entrails (all of it as I dont use them) get cooked and then fed to the LGD. The feathers go into the goat house for bedding and anything else left get's burned. The bones are used for soup - after I am done with the broth, I throw them out.