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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2017 18:18:39 GMT -5
in the fridge? I recently bought a couple grinds for Sawyer from My Pet Carnivore and stored them in the freezer. But I quickly realized I can't for the life of me get any of the meat out when it's in a giant frozen chunk. So I placed one 1lb container of rabbit in the fridge and dished it out to him over the course of a week after it thawed. He definitely seemed to enjoy it! I still have a 1lb container of chicken as well as a pound of duck hearts in the freezer that I can't get out of the plastic containers while frozen. If I put the chicken in the fridge so that it thaws, how long will it stay "good" for to feed to Sawyer? I was nervous about the rabbit so I fed it to him as quickly as I could. And how long would the hearts stay good for in the fridge as well?
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Post by raynebc on Jul 14, 2017 13:16:28 GMT -5
Meat in general will spoil in the fridge over the span of several days so what lots of us like to do is thaw the meat (in the fridge) so it can be divided into suitable portions sizes in freezable bags/containers and then put into the freezer for longer term storage. It's been said on the forum that suitably contained meat should keep in the freezer as long as a year.
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Post by LindaM on Jul 14, 2017 14:03:30 GMT -5
Correct, though I'd like to point out, not in the fridge freezer, meat will last a year in a deep freezer (chest freezer/singular freezer unit), they control and keep temperatures much better than the freezer of a fridge-freezer.
In the fridge meat can go bad within some days, a week is probably the max I have seen before meat started spoiling and that was butcher fresh meat, oxidation discoloration begins occurring within 2-3 days too but not all discolored meat are bad, so most people will do the sniff test to see if it smells rancid.
Thawing meat out in the fridge and then portioning into meal-sized amounts in containers or ziplock baggies will be the best solution here.
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Post by raynebc on Jul 18, 2017 14:32:50 GMT -5
Meat can keep that long in a fridge freezer compartment as long as you verify it maintains a consistent deep freeze. I keep a thermometer in mine and it's pretty much always below 0 degrees.
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