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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: deepinthewoods on July 21, 2011, 09:31:34 pm

Title: do you bleed your chickens?
Post by: deepinthewoods on July 21, 2011, 09:31:34 pm

ive chosen a chook to have for my birthday roast next week, ive eaten both unbled and bled chickens b4 but cant remember which tasted better!
 to bleed or not to bleed, that is the question!?

Title: Re: do you bleed your chickens?
Post by: VSS on July 21, 2011, 09:34:54 pm

Never bother with ours.

Title: Re: do you bleed your chickens?
Post by: deepinthewoods on July 21, 2011, 09:49:29 pm

aaaah! thanks dan.

Title: Re: do you bleed your chickens?
Post by: Rosemary on July 21, 2011, 09:56:52 pm

We bleed ours. Never tried them not bled.

Title: Re: do you bleed your chickens?
Post by: SallyintNorth on July 21, 2011, 11:56:02 pm

No, don't bleed but do usually hang up by feet for 24 hours so quite a bit of the blood will collect in the neck / head.  I can't say I really notice any difference if I haven't hung them up.

Title: Re: do you bleed your chickens?
Post by: jaykay on July 22, 2011, 03:55:07 pm

I don't bleed ours but also hang them, so the blood collects in the neck. First one hangs half-an-hour or so while I get my act together, the rest the time it takes me to pluck the intervening ones!

Title: Re: do you bleed your chickens?
Post by: Womble on July 22, 2011, 04:20:12 pm

I tried both ways, and preferred them properly bled out. Each to their own though I guess.

Title: Re: do you bleed your chickens?
Post by: deepinthewoods on July 25, 2011, 03:30:38 pm

hung and plucked. thank you all. im hungry already.

Title: Re: do you bleed your chickens?
Post by: DJ_Chook on July 25, 2011, 05:55:37 pm

Bleed, but only for as long as it takes me to get the scalder up to temperature.