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deepinthewoods

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do you bleed your chickens?
« 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!?
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VSS

  • Joined Jan 2009
    • Pen Llyn
    • Viable Self Sufficiency.co.uk
Re: do you bleed your chickens?
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2011, 09:34:54 pm »
Never bother with ours.
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deepinthewoods

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Re: do you bleed your chickens?
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2011, 09:49:29 pm »
aaaah! thanks dan.
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
    • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: do you bleed your chickens?
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2011, 09:56:52 pm »
We bleed ours. Never tried them not bled.
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: do you bleed your chickens?
« Reply #4 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.
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jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: do you bleed your chickens?
« Reply #5 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!
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Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
    • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: do you bleed your chickens?
« Reply #6 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.
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deepinthewoods

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Re: do you bleed your chickens?
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2011, 03:30:38 pm »
hung and plucked. thank you all. im hungry already.
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DJ_Chook

  • Joined Jun 2009
    • Mid Wales
  • Chicken mad, nothing else just chickens.
Re: do you bleed your chickens?
« Reply #8 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.
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