was just discussing this with a df, her grandmother used to somehow clean
the feathers to make pillows and bed batting with... she doesn't remember,
but she lolled when she said it popped into her head the hoter day and she
was trying to figure how she cleaned them and they didn't stink.

My sister has started skinning her chickens whn she slaughters so it goes
quicker, the skin isn't there to tempt and smells less nasty,
Lee
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>>>> When my kids were small and I was poor and struggling, I'd make entire
>>>> pots of chicken soup with nothing but backs, necks and giblets.
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>>> My mother was greatly distressed when they stopped leaving a bag of
>>> giblets in frozen chicken. So presumably she used them in our soups too
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>> What? That's a sacrilege! Gotta have the giblets. :-)
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>> Cheri
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> The modern generation seemed to shun them. When we used to slaughter our
> own chooks not a part of them got wasted (except for the feathers...)