Horrifying experience

ChrissyBz · 08-09-2008, 11:59 AM

I guess Pig Tail Boilup's a no go fer sure then?

rosemaryninja · 08-09-2008, 12:31 PM

This is how we eat ours...

ChrissyBz · 08-09-2008, 12:50 PM

RMN, those look really good.

Send me the recipe please.

4dogs3cats · 08-09-2008, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Mdawn

I think I'll pass on the Chicken Foot Soup...*shivers*

As for the chicken foot in the bag of chicken...I don't blame you Jenn...I would've screamed (or at least did a very loud "EWWWWWW!!!).

I'm pretty much a sissy about somethings...this would be one of them. I would have made my boyfriend take it and get rid of it for me...although knowing him, he would have chased me around the house with it first...lol He can be a jerk.

I just wasnt expecting it!

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Originally Posted by wolfsnaps

you want to feed raw and you cant handle a chickens foot? lol, oh well, I hunt so feeding my dogs animal parts really doesnt bother me. Too bad you didnt give it to your dogs, they would have loved it. Its all chicken!

Its not that I cant handle it, when you take a chicken quarter out of the bag it just looks like meat. When you reach in and see a chicken foot waving at you, it changes your WHOLE perspective!

LuvmyRotti · 08-12-2008, 11:48 AM

Ok - At this point I only eat Chicken & Fish. If I didn't like Chicken so much... I can barely stick my hand in a raw chicken and pull the neck out - grosses me out every time. As for the soup - not a chance even if it meant insulting someone.

wyx · 08-13-2008, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by rosemaryninja

This is how we eat ours...

When we get dim sum we always get the feet, it's traditional. I'll take one or two but don't really like them myself, they're just all skin and bone, no real meat on them. It's like eating the tip ends from the wings.

RawFedDogs · 08-13-2008, 01:23 AM

Raw chicken feet are a great natural source of glucosamine.

rosemaryninja · 08-13-2008, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by wyx

When we get dim sum we always get the feet, it's traditional. I'll take one or two but don't really like them myself, they're just all skin and bone, no real meat on them. It's like eating the tip ends from the wings.

I am not a huge fan either but I will take them once in awhile. My boyfriend loves them and so do my dogs.

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Originally Posted by ChrissyBz

RMN, those look really good.

Send me the recipe please.

Only if you send me yours for Pig's Tail Boilup...

Cottage Rose · 08-13-2008, 12:23 PM

Let me get this straight...your dog were "shocked" because they saw a chicken foot?!?
Good grief!
How woosie can you get?

chul3l3ies1126 · 08-13-2008, 01:15 PM

We gotta eat dont we? and apparently so do the dogs lol!

Nessa

Dakota Spirit · 08-13-2008, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Cottage Rose

Let me get this straight...your dog were "shocked" because they saw a chicken foot?!?
Good grief!
How woosie can you get?

No, JEN was shocked. She screamed and thereby startled the dogs. They were not shocked by the chicken foot...

ChrissyBz · 08-13-2008, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by rosemaryninja

I am not a huge fan either but I will take them once in awhile. My boyfriend loves them and so do my dogs.

Only if you send me yours for Pig's Tail Boilup...

You bet. And when I eat chicken foot soup I don't usually eat the feet, I ask for extra gizzards though.

The Boil up is really labour intensive.

Can you get salt pork there? It's basically the same thing.

I'd recommend trying pigtail with yellow or green split peas first. Much less work and also incredibly tasty.

You need to boil and change the tail water 3 times to get rid of a lot of the salt. The third boil is when you put in the peas. Just boil while stirring occasionally to keep them from sticking. When the peas are soft and mushy throw in some fried diced onion and, Voila!

Split Peas and tail! Nuthin' I like better than a good piece of tail.

(pig tail is so salty that it's kept just sitting on the shelf unrefridgerated. Stays good at room temp for a couple months)

Spicy1_VV · 08-14-2008, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by CinnamintStick

I think most people do not think about where there food comes from or how there food is raised. Most of which is not very human conditions. I am a bit of a farmer and have raised much of my own food for the sake of the animals and my health. You might think that is strange. The thing is for me is I am going to eat meat. The chicken I raise have a much better life with me than a factory farm. They are raised with respect. I have tried go with out meat for my health and some times I can do it for awhile but not long. I started raising chickens becuase I didn't want eating factory farmed chickens. I also do not want chickens butched my machine. So I started raising my own and learned on line how to butcher them. I was not raised doing these things. To me everyone should know the whole process of where there food comes from from start to finish. I don't always raise my own food now. It is a lot of work and where I live it is not cheap to raise your own. Most of my animals are pets or ones we sell. Some of you have seen the picture of my husband with our chickens. He still is not a farmer. He loves the chickens and turkeys.

Ditto

(great pic too)

4dogs3cats · 08-14-2008, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Cottage Rose

Let me get this straight...your dog were "shocked" because they saw a chicken foot?!?
Good grief!
How woosie can you get?

I startled the dogs. Because I screamed like a little girl. I wont be shocked next time I see it, but when I thought I was only getting chicken quarters, it was a bit startling when I saw it...

Criosphynx · 08-14-2008, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by 4dogs3cats

I startled the dogs. Because I screamed like a little girl. I wont be shocked next time I see it, but when I thought I was only getting chicken quarters, it was a bit startling when I saw it...

they are like little dinosaur feet.... I'd jump too. Then i'd be happy with my morbid "find"..... im wierd that way.

4dogs3cats · 08-14-2008, 12:52 AM

haha my friend dared me to paint its toenails.. I thought that was a bit morbid lol

Criosphynx · 08-14-2008, 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by 4dogs3cats

haha my friend dared me to paint its toenails.. I thought that was a bit morbid lol

awesome... i have to paint my chickens toenails now.... hehe

sherrymyra · 08-16-2008, 11:28 PM

ok. I wouldn't scream if they were in my dogs food. lol.

When I was young my mother told of them eating chicken feet (not the dogs). Well I just wasn't happy until I tasted them. Yuk.

But I can see where dogs would love them.

Elana55 · 08-18-2008, 01:33 PM

Good grief....

Having been a dairy farmer for 20 years I can tell you that a lot of what you read about factory farms is incorrect.. and that a lot of so called "factory" farms are really very large family farms that have gotten large to support an extended family (or gotten large because margins are so small). Fact is, a LOT of what you read about farming, feed lots, CAFO's etc. is hype and incorrect.. As with dog owners, there are always a few who are BAD news, and I have known some (most were small operations BTW, not the large farms shere they understood poor animal care = poor bottom line.. but I digress).

WHAT exactly do people think HAPPENS when an animal is slaughtered? My goodness.. each cow and each pig has TWO tenderloins and therefore very little is "filet.."

When dairy cows reach the end of the road they go to auction and most of that meat goes to Micky D's. A 4 or 5 cutter is a good dairy cow.. it means only 40-50% is "wastage" (guts, feed, bones, head.. and a cow head weighs in at over 100 pounds, hooves, hair and hide....).

Oh yeah.. and those "happy" Callifornia cows on the TV commercial mostly live in free stalls on concrete and never feel a blade of grass under foot.. and many are bred AI, so never even see a bull. *sigh*

Range Raised chickens sort of make me laugh too. Used to be pastures with fences and a FEW still are. Now the chickens are raised in cages and if you want to advertise "free Range" you open the cages and the barn door. Chickens are so imprinted on on thier cages and each other they don't leave them, tho they are free to and can be legally called "free range."

Now, I never ate chicken feet. I have rasied a few chickens and I have seen where they walk. No thank you. LOL

And RonE is right... dang feet, with spikes, on roosters can be a train wreck. I walk past a house with a large bantam Cross Rooster in the yard. It eyeballs Atka (the Evil Eye). I tell her to 'leave it" which she does.. and then I tell her that the rooster would kick her GSD @$$ so to "keep moving..." She does. I have seen that very rooster kick a JRT's butt, so I am not joking.

I have been considering adding a few chickens at my house. Hens lay eggs when mature and then molt and after they quit molting will lay more eggs that are bigger. Problem is chicken feed ain't chicken feed to buy anymore due to the cost of corn... After the second molt, hens are ready for the stew pot.

The feet are off limits tho cinsidering where they walk.