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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 21:00:23 GMT -5
It's the soup prepping day! I normally use skinless, boneless chicken thighs, but today I bought skin-on thighs instead. When I cup them up and weighed the meat, I had 3 pounds of muscle meat and 1 pound of skin. I'd like to put some of the skin in the soup, but where does it belong nutritionally? Can I use the whole thing and call it that I have 4 pounds of chicken?
My customized HFF soup recipe 4 lbs. chicken 8 oz. organ (4 oz. chicken liver & 4 oz. pork kidney) 8 oz. chicken hearts 8 tsp. bone-meal powder
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Post by bitbyter on Feb 9, 2015 0:21:02 GMT -5
Skin won't really blend up due to it's structure but you could always chop / slice it really small.
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Post by RedSky on Feb 9, 2015 10:07:05 GMT -5
My advice for the skin would be to freeze it (if you have it cut up into little pieces try to freeze it all into one big block) and then grate it. Skin is great for ferrets, they need all that fat. My blender doesn't like skin... It just gets all tangled and makes a mess. As for what is should be classed as, I think it goes into the meat category. Obviously you shouldn't feed loads of it, but you should feed what came with that piece of meat with the skin.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 11:10:07 GMT -5
Skin should fall into a Fat category. Fat equals energy for ferrets.
The thighs are fattier (and less expensive). I always add the skin, if I'm making a soupie or putting out some chicken. Just cut it into smaller pieces to help your blender.
You just have to watch the annoying tendons, they like to wrap themselves around blades.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 21:32:01 GMT -5
Thanks, bitbyter, RedSky, and @poncesmom! I wish I saw RedSky's post before I prepped it... It took me an entire hour to cut up one pound of skin into small enough pieces that Leela and Mitch would probably eat. Whew! Freezing it is a great idea! I will have to try it next time. I ended up using the whole thing, making it 1/4 of the chicken skin/fat. I feel that it might be too much fat and not enough muscle, but is it ok?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 13:45:02 GMT -5
If they eat too much fat, you'll see seedy poops. That's undigested fats. So, don't worry about too much. Their little body should simply eliminate what is not needed.
Stick to the muscle meat being approx 8 ounces along with the correct amount of the organs (as an approximate, I know you are doing bigger batches) add some of the fat and you will be fine.
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