How to prepare chicken feet?

[bchgirl]

Originally Posted by chachi

All these chicken stories are making me never want to eat chicken again. What can I say I am a City girl

I could really skip what goes on down at the farm...just call me when dinner's ready.

[Oscar's Mom]

Oh I got lotsa farm stories! But I'll save em for another thread...don't want to waste em all!

[vainchick5]

Originally Posted by chachi

All these chicken stories are making me never want to eat chicken again. What can I say I am a City girl

Umm yea count me in on that statement. GROSS!!! I doubt there's much nutritional value to chicken feet. I'd rather get my babies supplements if I had to..ukkh gross

[7TimesBlessed]

....ok, since everyone else gave their chicken story....whenever I hear chicken feet I remember over 10 yrs ago I was in Ecuador and wandered into the kitchen....several of the women were just hanging out talking and nibbling on chicken feet..........it caught me by surprise and I freaked out........they looked at me in surprise wondering what I was upset about....when they figured it out they all had a good laugh!!!!.......but now that you say they have gluc/condro and that being good for LP I will have to ck w the butcher when I pick up necks on Monday..........I will be praying all wknd that they cannot get any in!!!!!.....I'm outa here......you guys are too gross!!!!!..............lol...............

[Lexi Rae]

i couldnt even look at the feet let alone let lexi eat it... yucky!!!!

[Bonnie's Mom]

Originally Posted by Lexi Rae

i couldnt even look at the feet let alone let lexi eat it... yucky!!!!

I know! It just makes me want to cry!

[grayxie]

Would like to get back to the main topic at hand not your related stories, thank you.

[BubblPopElectrc]

Originally Posted by Oscar's Mom

Speakin of chickens, one my worst childhood memories was of a chicken killen. They chopped the heads off and threw em in a big metal tub with barbed wire...why barbed wire you ask? Because that saying you have heard about "running around like a chicken with his head cut off" - THAT is true...those sucker did not know right away that they had been beheaded...blew my mind. I am surprised I still eat chicken after that...now that the memory has flooded back, I think I will become a vegetarian... But this thread is about chicken feet and them being good for our dogs...lets get back to that!!!

I honestly can't believe your responses to this post haven't been deleted. Not only are they offensive and vulgar, but they do nothing to answer Grayxie's question. You've respondied 4 times, why?

[Oscar's Mom]

Originally Posted by BubblPopElectrc

I honestly can't believe your responses to this post haven't been deleted. Not only are they offensive and vulgar, but they do nothing to answer Grayxie's question. You've respondied 4 times, why?

Well since you saw fit to ask...1st post WAS rather informative, 2nd post WAS about chicken feet and other yukky things people eat, 3rd post was a memory - no more and I DID say we should go back OT - That would be ON TOPIC, 4th post was keeping with the conversation and the 5th post was for YOU...Didn't see you jump on anybody else for THEIR chicken stories...why did you single me out....hmmm...??? And offensive and vulgar...I answered her questions just as well as anyone else did. Didn't your momma ever tell you that if you don't have something nice to say to not say anything at all...???

[grayxie]

Would really like an answer to my question, since this thread has gone up to two pages all ready and no help to my question.

[Oscar's Mom]

Hey she started it...not me...I was trying to be helpful...found this...you might NOT want to cook the chickens feet as cooked chicken bones are harmful...they splinter. I am pretty sure there are chicken bones in chicken feet so I would not cook them.

This is one of the biggest myths of all time! Raw chicken bones are fantastic for your dog. They are soft enough so that they bend easily, and break well for the dog to digest.
On the other hand, cooked chicken bones can be a problem, and I recommend that you DON'T feed COOKED chicken bones.

Some people are worried about their dog choking on bones. While such incidents are very rare (far more incidents occur with dogs choking on kibble), I encourage the feeding of bigger portions of meaty bones, or if available, whole carcasses, such as whole chickens or rabbits.

So could a raw chicken bone kill a dog? Well I guess that anything is possible. Certainly scientifically you can't prove a negative argument. However what we do know is that dogs have died from inhaling kibble the wrong way and choking and suffocating to death.

Feeding your dog is about management of risk. No matter which path you decide to take there is always risk. There is always someone who will criticise your decision. However you, and only you can decide what is best for your dogs. Weigh up all the benefits and risks. Do your own analysis. Do your research. Do what will have the greatest overall benefit for your dog.

[Oscar's Mom]

And one more note on chicken feet and bones that I found.

Bones. Chewing on bones is natural for both cats and dogs as they would encounter bones when eating whole animals in the wild. In healthy animals, gastric juices contain sufficient hydrochloric acid to soften bone and release the soluble lime salts their bodies need. It is important, though, to be careful about how you give bones to your pet. Small, sharp poultry and rabbit bones can get stuck in the esophagus or digestive track and require surgery to remove. Non-splintering beef shank bones are recommended for dogs. For cats, it is probably safer to add ground bone meal to their raw meat to more closely duplicate the balance of nutrients they would obtain from a whole animal.

There might be small sharp bones in Chicken Feet...I don't think I would feed them to Oscar, but he can't have chicken anyway. He got really sick eating it one time and vet said never again. But anyway, hope some of this helped.

[lara2913]

Don't worry about it grayxie, some people will always turn things into a joke. I think its a natural response for people to turn things into a joke or think its gross when they don't actually understand the tremendous benefits of RAW.

I looked about for you and I think you should clip off the toenails, run them under the tap, freeze them for 48 hours or more, defrost and feed. I hope he likes them

[lara2913]

Originally Posted by Oscar's Mom

And one more note on chicken feet and bones that I found.

Bones. Chewing on bones is natural for both cats and dogs as they would encounter bones when eating whole animals in the wild. In healthy animals, gastric juices contain sufficient hydrochloric acid to soften bone and release the soluble lime salts their bodies need. It is important, though, to be careful about how you give bones to your pet. Small, sharp poultry and rabbit bones can get stuck in the esophagus or digestive track and require surgery to remove. Non-splintering beef shank bones are recommended for dogs. For cats, it is probably safer to add ground bone meal to their raw meat to more closely duplicate the balance of nutrients they would obtain from a whole animal.

The above is quite clearly talking about what happens with cooked bones. Unfortunatly alot of resources fail to point that out.

[txshopper73]

Originally Posted by bchgirl

There is actually some meat on chicken feet. My girlfriend used to describe how her grandmother made creamed baby chicken feet and all I could ever imagine was a pile of little chicks with no legs.