Chicken tumor????

Tjcoley · September 2012

Has anyone ever experienced this? Did a basic roasted chicken (Perdue Oven Stuffer Roaster). When I started carving it, there was an egg sized green mass in the breast. Not sure what it was, but we threw it out and went out to eat.

Skiddymarker · September 2012

Hey TJ, good choice to go out, would've done the same. Never experienced this first hand, but did hear of something called Oregon Disease, where there is a lime green color near the breastbone. Sure sounds like what you have in your photos.

Skiddymarker · September 2012

Found this

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/104/oregon-disease-deep-pectoral-myopathy

Tjcoley · September 2012

Thanks @Skiddy. Glad I threw it out. No way I was eating it, however once you cook something for a couple of hours and get the smell embedded and the anticipation of the taste, it was hard to do.

Austin Egghead · September 2012

TJ, that is a bummer. I would have thrown it out too.

Skiddy, thanks for the link..

Chunky_Charc · September 2012

Not trying to hijack thread but this reminded me of something else....

I am a deer hunter and I sometimes process my own deer. I was cutting a ham off a hind quarter once and trimming it up when I felt something in the muscle mass that did not feel just right. As I began seperating the muscles in the ham I came across a large white mass. It was just stuck there inside the muscle. It wasn't attached with a blood supply or anything it was just stuck in there. In fact it was very easy to sort of squish out.

Once I got it out of the muscle it was about 2" long and about 1" in diameter.and completely surrounded by a hard white substance. I began to cut into it to discover a stick. Evidently the deer had been stuck by a sizeable tree branch while jumping a fence or whatever and this piece had remained behind. It had formed a protective layer around the stick much like calcium. No harn to the meat.....but you know that had to have been painful!