How to prepare chicken feet?

[grayxie]

So I finally remembered to get Chip some chicken feet for him to try. Now my question is how do I serve it to him? Normally when I clean chicken parts for dinner I scrub it with some salt an then rinse. After I wash the feet should I freeze them or just refrigerate and then serve?

[ARCHIE]

I never heard of such a thing. The reason I, and most, buy premium dog
food to to keep from giving our pet's by-products such as chicken feet.

Maybe I missed something but sorry I can't help you. It's not something
I would give my dog.

[donnarod]

Who told you to feed this to your yorkie? Just curious.

[chachi]

Yucky!

[lara2913]

Never fed them myself because I can't source them, however I do know that in moderation they are a great source of glucoasamine and chondroitin. The problem is that alot of pet foods are made up completely of things like chicken feet.

Abbie'smom feeds them so should be able to help. I would think freeze them for 48 hours, then defrost and feed.

[grayxie]

Originally Posted by lara2913

Never fed them myself because I can't source them, however I do know that in moderation they are a great source of glucoasamine and chondroitin. The problem is that alot of pet foods are made up completely of things like chicken feet.

Abbie'smom feeds them so should be able to help. I would think freeze them for 48 hours, then defrost and feed.

I also heard theyare a good source of glucosamine chondroitin, its all basically cartilage for the most part. I am very curious to try, just have to see what Chip's tummy will do about it though. Have you asked your butcher? If you have an Asian market nearby they will most likely carry them. They are relatively inexpensive.

[Oscar's Mom]

I am sure Oscar would like Chicken Feet...he would like ANY part of a chicken! And who knew they were good for our dogs??? Hmmm...learn something new everyday! Oh I and I would not say that FRESH chicken feet would be a by-product...it is a chicken product if it is fresh off the bird! A meat by product is defined as:

Meat by-product
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Meat by-products are ground and cleaned slaughtered meat carcass parts such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs, bones, heads, and intestines (and a small amount of feathers in the case of chicken meat). The terms meat by-products or animal by-products are often used in reference to the ingredients included in commercial pet foods.

The official definition for meat by-products by the Association Of American Feed Control Officials, Inc. (AAFCO) is:

"The non-rendered, clean parts, other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone, partially defatted low temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. It does not include hair, horns, teeth and hoofs. It shall be suitable for use in animal food. If it bears name descriptive of its kind, it must correspond thereto."

In many cases, by-product meals are derived from "4-D" meat sources -- defined as food animals that have been rejected for human consumption because they were presented to the meat packing plant as "Dead, Dying, Diseased or Disabled." The quality of animal meat by-products also tends to be very inconsistent between batches.

Meat by-products are commonly found in lower-grade pet foods and even many of the larger name brands, including Science Diet (even their prescription diet product line), Purina (both Purina One and Purina Pro Plan), and Iams / Eukanuba. Ingredients listed as "meat, beef, chicken, and/or poultry by-products" on pet food labels are not required to include actual meat, and "rendered meat" on labels can refer to any rendered mammal meat, including dogs and cats.

A new category of pet food typically marketed as holistic, wellness, organic, ultra healthy, and/or simply premium pet food often emphasizes the use of human-grade meat sources only, with no animal meat by-products of any kind. Examples of such pet foods include Flint River Ranch, Wellness Pet Food, Innova, Life's Abundance, Nutro Ultra Holistic, Pet Promise, Timberwolf Organics and Evanger's.

[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.

[Oscar's Mom]

I was noticing our chicken's feet this morning out in the yard...they are some ugly things...how could people eat those things...course growing up, we HAD to eat scrambled eggs and pig brains...nothing is worse than that...is it???

[donnarod]

My father raised chickens when I was a child. He served in the Marine's for 30 years as a cook. He always cooked the chicken feet and we loved it. Guess he boiled them, not sure.
Where is THIS STORY GOING? Interesting.

[Bonnie's Mom]

Not again

[jp4m2]

Excuse me while I go gag...

[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!!!

[bchgirl]

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!!!

As a kid...the lady next door had a rooster. We both lived at the top of hill...at the bottom was the river. We had no a/c and that rooster woke us up at the crack of dawn every day.....soooooo her a/c goes out...now she can't sleep, calls her FIL...who comes over and shoots off the rooster's head. The rooster ran down the hill and into the river....she fished him out and made chicken salad.

PS I think she threw the legs away....

[chachi]

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