repost ing green meat from newly processed chicken

[misspennyloise]

Hi , I am new so I hope I do this right..I am teachable
I just got my chickens back from the processor and found this area between the breast bone on one of the chickens. I had all males except two females and this was not one of the female.

The processors didn't say anything about any weird markings etc. I probably would not of seem this except that I cut the meat up.

I isolated this till i find out what it is. Any ideas
thank you oh this was the only one .
misspennylouise

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se tell me if the picture s did not come through thanks

 

[NotTheMomma]

I'm not certain but looks like a healing bruise to me.

 

[jaku]

Can't really tell from the pic, but is that entire large yellowish area affected, or is it just the dark green patch in the middle? And what exactly are we looking at in the pic- as in, where are you at with cutting it up. I can't get a good perspective on it- a whole bird?

 

[misspennyloise]

thank you very much . As i said in the other post I never had this before...so it kinda like freak me out a little. any ways I put up 20 chickens and they weighed an avg. of 7.25 lbs acording to the processor. wonder what they would of weighed if I let them go another 5 days so they would of been 8 weeks exactly. Thanks for the comments I appreciate all the good information.

 

[misspennyloise]

Hi again, i took the picture as looking down from above. there was yellow and green when i sliced the breast meat from the bone. there was no odor but I was just not sure what caused it. never had it on any of my other chickens? thanks

 

[onthespot]

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/803/breeding-for-meat-quality-and-high-yield-products

Here is a part of the article that expains green breast meat in high yeild lines of meat poultry.

Cobb is also pioneering in DNA gene marker technologies which will enable its R&D group to select even more effectively against poor meet quality in its products. Another meat quality concern is Green Muscle Disease or Deep Pectoral Myopathy, which is the necrosis of the Pectoralis Minor (tender) muscle of poultry. Necrotic tenders appear yellowish-green in color. Green Muscle Disease results from vigorous activity of both major and minor pectoralis muscles, but only the tenders are afflicted.

During contraction, muscles normally swell with increased blood flow to supply needed oxygen and nutrients. The tenders compared to other muscles have a more rigid muscle cover and are confined to a tight space within the body such that they can’t expand to accommodate this increased blood flow. The net result of the muscle being confined and compressed is self strangulation, suffocation and eventually necrosis.


The incidence of Green Muscle Disease increases with market weight in broilers, and more cases are reported in higher yielding crosses and in males. Increased bird activity induced by factors such as feed or water outages, lighting programs, catching and live haul and even excessive noise may result in increased incidence of Green Muscle Disease in broilers.

Our geneticists select against Green Muscle Disease in the same way they select against PSE by careful identification during routine dissections and selection against families with a high incidence of this disorder and by research deigned to identify gene markers for selection against this characteristic.

 

[jaku]

Very good post!

 

[NotTheMomma]

onthespot, GREAT POST! I learned lots from that! So in essence, it is a type of bruising, but can turn necrotic! YUCKY! I wonder why all meat birds that are allowed to free range or allowed to move lots, don't show this same thing. I know it said genetics are involved, so I guess if a certain hatchery was having more bouts of this than others, we should try to buy elsewhere.

 

[jaku]

Quote:
Might be tough to avoid, since they all get their birds from the same few places. I've had (rare) instances of this from every hatchery.

 

[misspennyloise]

I have been doing alot of thinking on other things that may have cause this since I only had one bird that did it.

I used a ten foot section of raingutter as a feeder and then placed it as high as their backs( up on concrete blocks) and then I bent any sharp corners in so as not to have injury. but at the end it was open and the placement if they banged/bumped into it to feed ...maybe caused a bruise???? I think I will put end caps on the gutters. I use dthe gutters so there would not be crowding and they did not cost me any thing.

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