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What's wrong with this chicken? - Drumstick (2 of 8)

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[Music] Okay. I'd like to point out uh a few things that that someone should recognize. the the part of the of the animal of the of the bird in order to be able to be familiar with the possible shus. As everyone knows, the chicken has dark meat and white meat. The dark meat is the legs. The legs consist of the upper triangular part of the leg, which is the thigh that's attached to the spine. This is this section over here. At this point where my finger is pointing and at this time just you have a look and see the end of the thigh bone over here and just below this point it's connected to the spine. The connection is a ball joint. The ball joint is called the buka atma. And the ball of this bone uh is locked into a socket uh inside the spine bone. That socket is is called d the place where the book of the atma where the ball of the joint enters into the socket over here. The lower part as we call it the pulkit the drumstick. The drumstick has meat in the top and near the bottom where it joins the foot. It seems uh to be without any meat at all. But through this little section over here, there are 16 tendons. The tendon is uh part of every muscle, a muscle, and it contracts pulls the two bones closer. So if the muscle contracts, this bone will go like this. There's for each individual joint there's a separate muscle. There are three joints to each of the four toes and this one has only two. And uh and each one of them has a separate tendon which when it's attached to the muscle when the muscle contracts it pulls the parts of the bone closer. There are 16 tendons altogether. They pass through this spot. They join together. They attach this muscle to the bone so that it could pull this over here and so on. It's as if you had an intersection of all the different tendons. That's called aus means an intersection joining together of all the different kittens. And uh we consider that if any one of the 16 giddon are the giddon meaning the tenant in this case the word gidden by the way is not limited to mean pendants. It could mean anything that's long and thin. The any one of the 16 is is ripped or bloodied during the life of the chicken before the chicken is safe and can't be used. Sometimes if you take a look at a chicken and you see that it's red and bruised at this part you have a problem and it's very very difficult to dissect the part of the bone which has found to be kosher but if you see something suspicious looks bloodied not broken broken doesn't mean anything because it was surely broken after the otherwise it would be bloodied all over I cut away some of the skin. So, and I exposed one of the 16 gon. It's this white strand. The others are thinner and thicker as as might be. Each one is attached to a muscle and connects the one end to a muscle and one end to a bone. Here are the uh more of the kibon. They're all around. There's there's uh nine and seven usually. Here they are. Now they could be t as long as they're not buried in the muscle. Once they become part of the muscle, they're not tra any longer. How high does it have to be to become sitted part of the muscle? Some place can say one finger, some say two. We generally go up as high as two fingers. If it's a real emergency and there's a hea that means there's a great loss. It's shabas and there's all all of the food could become it was all cooked together. In that case a may decide to be make we go halfway just on to be on a safe side halfway from the joint over here till the top of the pula. At this point we say that all the 16 gon are uh completely uh hidden in the muscle. Okay. When we measure with fingers, how about on a turkey? So we measure a little more because it's a larger thing. Okay. Now, this is one of the three uh one of the three uh tasers that they search for in every chicken slaughter house. The mashkum stand on the line and they check to see if there's any bloodiness at this point of the tomb. Another place where they check is over here by this muka dot.