I always buy fryers and slow roast them in the oven....they are so delicious.....

Yesterday I was making soup with the bones and it looks like they forgot to take out the innards...

I was poking through it all take out the meat and I came across two things that looked like maggots. They were kind of big not tiny little white things but more of a beige colour with segregations. They definitely looked like maggots!

I got so freaked and threw the whole thing away. Wish I saved it to really check or ask Dh. I can't believe we all ate that chicken.

Does anyone know or think it might have been some organ I just don't know about? Or maybe all chickens have intestinal worms but we don't know because they are gutted before we buy them...

I think I will go back to being a vegetarian now.

fiona

By Karen~moderator on Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 12:54 pm:

UGH! That is SO disgusting! I don't know about any of that, all I ever buy is boneless/skinless breasts. Makes me feel sick to think about it.

By Colette on Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 01:34 pm:

Yuck!!

By Tink on Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 01:43 pm:

I'm right there with Karen. I can't remember the last time I bought a whole chicken. I was contemplating it a few days ago and you have convinvced me to stick with the bl/sl breasts.

By Palmbchprincess on Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 07:01 pm:

I buy whole fryers to put in the crock pot, and use the meat in recipes. I'm a bit confused, were you using the whole chicken? Or just the leftover bones from one you had already cooked? It's possible it was just some feed, if it was found with the giblets, or other non-bug thing. I wouldn't freak too bad, just make sure you always wash the chickens well before cooking!! Sorry you had such a gross experience!!!

By Dawnk777 on Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 07:44 pm:

I buy whole chickens all the time to cook, eat for supper and then turn into stock. I have never seen crawly white things! Eww! I think I would have been inclined to throw it out, too! Once I made veggie soup and didn't realize there were bugs in my barley! I had to start ALL over. Has never happened since, and the barely had been in my house for a long time. Apparently, too long! LOL!

By Fionadeassis on Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 10:28 pm:

We had roasted and eaten the whole chicken the night before. Then I took the leftover bones and boiled them to make stock.

They weren't crawly white things....there were two of them together the size of a babies finger but a tiny bit longer...kind of a beige colour and definitely segregated....

I am sure they were some kind of intestinal worm thing.......

Yes I washed the chicken, but they were obviously stuck inside......eeewwwwwww!!!!!!

I think I will stick to the thighs and breasts and stuff for now on...LOL....

fiona

By Karen~moderator on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 07:39 am:

Are you sure it wasn't tendons or something like that since you used the bones??? Tendons or ligaments and some musculature sometimes *looks* wormy when it's heated. Were they actually moving?????? Or did it just look white and stringy?

By Fionadeassis on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 08:11 am:

They weren't moving and they weren't white and stringy........

They wern't muscle or tendons(which are longer and kind of thin and white).....

I pray they were some kind of intestine thing or organ.

But they were something I have never seen in a chicken or turkey before.

ugh.

By Fraggle on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 08:52 am:

I use whole chickens every couple of months and sometimes there are some beige things near the bones-I'm not sure if it is fat, organs or what-I guess that could kind of look like a bug. But they are never as big as you describe.

By Missmudd on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 10:38 am:

Guys I hate to tell you what these REALLY are, I dont know if it will help or just gross you out further. The two whitish beanish type things you sometimes find along the backbone of a whole fryer are it's testicals. I know that sounds totally freaky but have you ever seen nuts on a bird? It is because they are internal and protected by it's backbone. So at least you dont have to worry about it being something that is a tumor or a paracite. We learned this in 4-h and when I butchered our cockrels (not allowed in city limits) they were there.

By Colette on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 10:43 am:

eeeewwwwwww!!!!

By Kernkate on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 10:53 am:

Oh yuk!!!

By Dawnk777 on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 11:01 am:

Actually, that does help me! LOL! I would rather know it was a normal part of the bird than to think it was worms or some other parasite! I have done the same thing, many times, roasted the whole bird, eaten it for supper and put the leftovers right into a stock pot! I really didn't want to have to stop doing that!

By Karen~moderator on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 11:05 am:

I thought chickens were females and roosters were males?????????????????????

By Dawnk777 on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 11:14 am:

If you want to see pictures of a chicken's innards, here's a link. (yeah, I need a life!)

Don't go if gross pictures bother you. I'm a nurse, what can I say?

Chicken Innards

If you keep clicking your mouse, it will identify all the parts for you!

By Rayanne on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 11:15 am:

YUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!

By Missmudd on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 11:19 am:

Ok here is your primer on what to call a chicken.

All chickens are chickens. If you are female and less then 1 year old you are a pullet, if you are male and less then one year old you are a cockrel. If you are over one year and female you are a hen, over one year and male you are a cockrel minus the "rel" (the board wont let me type that for obvious reasons). Rooster is just another name for a male chicken but if you want to be totally accurate, like 4-h you should use the above. (It's like if you raised dogs, what do you call your male and female.)

Chicken produced for a commercial market for meat are not sexed because they are all going to be eaten and it really doesnt matter what they are. So you have a 50/50 chance of getting a male or female chicken, and then out of the 50 % that are male a certain percentage will still have their testicals after cleaning.

By Fraggle on Monday, October 25, 2004 - 12:23 pm:

Thanks for the info . Doesn't really gross me out-I figured it was something that you normally see inside a chicken carcass since I have seen it quite a few times-now at least I know for sure.