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Chicken Feet

Posted : 7/23/2006 11:24:03 AM

Yesterday hubby and I was in WalMart grocery section and I was looking for some chicken gizzards and something caught my eye---Chicken Paws. IT WAS CHICKEN FEET . I showed it to my hubby and he said "What the he** is that?" I told him it was chicken feet and he took a better look and said 'It sure as he** is. Why would anyone buy those nasty looking things. (strange thing is he likes pickled pigs feeet, YUK).

Have any of you seen them? It didn't say chicken feet on the label, but Chicken Paws. I know they are a delecacy in China, but we don't have that many Chinese people in this area, lots of Vietnamese and Philipinoes, but I never read that they eat chicken feet.

I thought of all the times I had seen about chicken feet (part of the by product) being used in the cheap dog food, and there they sat right in the poultry section of the meat case in WalMart, nasty looking things.I am not going to eat them! Then again, I don't eat caviar (yuk, fish eggs) lobster (l;ove shrimp), brains (love gizzards). Guess it is just a matter of taste.

willowchow

Posted : 7/23/2006 12:06:52 PM

I don't feed them either but I think a few people that used to post here did give them to the dogs as they are a great source of glucoasamine. [

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brookcove

Posted : 7/23/2006 5:34:14 PM

They are also a good source of B vitamin (hard to find in animal sources), selenium (ditto), and biotin.

When my dogs get whole chickens or ducks, they eat the feet first. [

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kennel_keeper

Posted : 7/23/2006 6:29:53 PM

When I worked at the animal santuary, I was constantly picking up un-eaten chickens feet from the enclosures. None of the aniamls would eat them or the heads. Alot of times the lions and tigers would eat only the intrails and some of the breast portions of all the chickens and leave the rest. It was certainly a pleasent task, cleaning up all those uneaten parts [:'(] that were sometimes infested with "the nasties"

Ingrid

Posted : 7/23/2006 6:41:01 PM

I recently bought a package of chicken feet, because I JUST HAD TO, lol. Jake loves them, and I'm glad to hear that they're a good source of glucosamine (Jake has arthritis) and B12. I tried giving the cats one, to see what they'd do, but they licked it over before losing interest (which might have been because Jake was 4 feet away staring intently, lol). As soon as they left, Jake scooped up the foot and ran off with it, lol

When frozen, they're something, but if you thaw it out, my goodness, they're creepy to look at.

Vinia

Posted : 7/23/2006 7:51:56 PM

My family is Chinese, and quite often will order chicken feet when we're out for lunch ( at a Chinese restaurant). I've tried them once and they were very chewy and gross. It's just the tendons/skin around the feet that's eaten.

I can imagine how good they'd be for dogs though!

Edie

Posted : 7/23/2006 8:22:24 PM

LOL,I'm pretty sure there are far worse things than chicken feet in those grocery store pet foods [:'(]

I bought chicken feet *once*,my dogs thought they were ok,they inhaled them in 10 seconds,i had to use tongs to handle them as i couldnt bring myself to touch them.But the crunch for me came everytime i opened the freezer to see the claws that kept breaking through the bags staring back at me,not to mention the funky "skin" smell once they were defrosted,i could handle it no more,and ended up throwing them away.Had my dogs loved them i probably could have just put up with them,but they wernt real fussed.

sandra_slayton

Posted : 7/24/2006 1:37:42 AM

These were not frozen, but right there with the whole chickesn, chicken breasts, drums sticks, every. I coudln't believe my eyes when I saw them--first time I had ever seen them in grocery store. Still had the toenials, etc. YUK. But maybe my dogs would like them!

Edie

Posted : 7/24/2006 10:47:53 PM

Still had the toenials, etc. YUK.

I know! Thats the part that put me off the most! I guess they could work well as dental floss[8D]