Did anyone see Iron Chef extolling the virtues of the Blue Foot Chicken--sells for 10X the price of other chicken. Here is a link--there are a lot of links on it. The Kobe Beef of chickens! Does anyone know if they are available? It sounds like it is a sort of closed resource. I'm not really thinking of breeding them, just curious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_foot_chicken
Blue Foot Chicken!
How neat is that? No pic....durn! That would be one American chicken wouldn't it? Red comb, white feathers, and blue feet. I haven't heard of this. I wonder how they breed them to get the feet blue and the meat to taste so much different? Is the skin blue too, or just the legs? I tried to look it up a pic on the iron chef website and couldn't find anything.
Christy
It is neat, isn't it? Here is a somewhat disturbing picture--and an interesting article.
http://nymag.com/nymetro/food/features/14787/
Thanks for the link. Just went there and yes, the picture is a bit disturbing to say the least......we are just not use to seeing chicken presented in such a way. The article was interesting......really gotta love that last line....(the following might one day be construed as the highest praise): "They really taste like chicken."
Ok, if they really taste like chicken and that is what makes them so great, with the exception of the oddity of the blue feet, then could it also be said that a raised on a farm, truly free range bird would taste just as good as they are saying this blue footed one does?
Very interesting!
Christy
I actually think there is more to this than the breed. This link starts out as a sort of obnoxious discussion of who has eaten the real French deal--then morphs into the effects of feeding chickens milk on their taste (including a discussion of whether or not chickens are lactose intolerant). I've learned here on DG about the health benefits of giving chickens buttermilk--maybe it improves the taste as well?
http://mouthfulsfood.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t6881.html
Actually the IC "Blue Foot Chicken" battle ended with the judges thinking it pretty much tasted like chicken!
Well, that was some discussion. I know chickens can not be lactose intolerant, we have fed our some as a preventive measure for cocci and I am almost certain it saved our last 3 keets. I wonder though if feeding a regular diet of regular straight milk might be bad for them.....unless they were fed clabbered (sp?) milk. How exactly do you clabber milk?
Before I met my DH, he had extra milk from cows that he wasn't selling and would give it to the chickens. I don't know how long or how much they got it and he says he didn't really notice any different flavor in the meat.
Do you think if clabbered milk was fed as part of a regular feeding plan, it would make the meat taste even better? I mean a ('regular' meat chicken.)
The IC judges....that is so funny! All they could say was so special about it was that it tasted like chicken. LOL!
Christy
Ladybug, clabbered milk is only sour milk that clumps up. Most homogenized milk will not clabber.
You know, my BAs have bluish/black legs, I wonder if you crossed a BA with a White leghorn if you would get the same coloring? Just too funny.
GG
hmmm, silkie-EE cross ?
Just thought of someting...that pic is of a rooster...maybe we should start something with the fancy restaurants to cook those unwanted roosters that way and present them to customers. Think that would go over with them? LOL.
GG
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we had a fancy restaurant here for a few months before it went under. i wanted to work there as a waitress and wear t-shirts with pictures of my chickens on it..... another dream left unfullfilled LOL
So sorry, TF.
well, easy come, easy go LOL...
but i am thinking this bird is missing something. like an egg coming out its rear, a blue egg, and some feathers on its feet...