What's wrong with this chicken? - The wing bone & lungs (6 of 8)

[Music] [Applause] The the chicken bone, the the wing bone has three parts to it. This is the part closest to the body over here. This part, this part's further. And here's the part that's still further. It contains little project tiles at the end of it, which are like fingers. One, two, three. By the way, the leg also has three parts, right? This is the yellow foot, the pula, and the thigh, which we call at home the dark meat. Okay? The the chicken arm or wing is also joined to the body through a ball joint. But there are no problems with tapers with that ball joint. But just at the point where it joins the body, just on the other side of the skin, there's tucked away right here in the base of the wing. And I'm touching it right now. The lung of the chicken. The chicken has two lungs. one on the each wing. Okay. So, take a look at this little hole that I I made here in the uh the flesh of the body in the skin rather. I'm sorry. It's in the skin. And the what you're looking at behind the hole is the lung of the chicken. Now, how does the chicken breathe? I'm going to Open up the chicken and I'll show it to you from Yeah, I I opened it up for you. I have it in the bowl. Okay. Three chicken. This is the long of the chicken over here. Can you see that? Yeah. It's pink. Um against the rib cage, I think. You got it? Yeah. The pink pink right here. Mhm. You have it? Yeah. Here, I have the open look. Okay. And the wing is as you It's the equivalent of over here. So, if I take my finger and stick it through over here, I would hit the the wing joint right through the top of the lungs. And this is the heart. And these two lungs, as the bird breathes, just like a person, they get bigger and smaller. Okay. But we don't check the lungs of a chicken for traus because it has so many loes that when you pull out the lung, it gets deteriorated and you can't see if there's any uh problems with it. Okay, that's great. Let me let me give you another little view of that very same lung. You take you see the pink over here. The lung. Okay. Y you see where the base of the of the wing is right next to it where the lung doesn't have muscles that expand and contract the chamber that the lung is in. And there would be no ability for the bird to breathe. In order to breathe, there has to be a squeezing of the chamber to expel the air, the you know spoiled air to come there. loaded air which was exhaled by the lung and there has to be an expansion. So to pull in air from the outside fresh air which contains more oxygen. What happens to the chicken is that the chicken is constantly moving its wing up and down very slightly. It never stops flexing its wings. It runs to sleep. Just gives a flutter every couple of seconds. And that flutter squeezes the lung. As I said, the chicken flutters its wings back and forth and it causes a uh compression and relaxation of the skin around the lung and causes breathing, inhaling, exhaling. Sometimes there could be a crack in the wing of a chicken. And once there's that, which way would the crack be ready? Anyway, there's a million different kinds of cracks. Any crack, whether it's dull or sharp, there could be a crack. And if it happens to be that the crack is poised towards the lung, the crack could cause a penetration of the outside skin, the thin skin on the outside, it could go straight through and hit the lung and cause the puncture in the lung, which would render the chicken safe. Now, we can't see that. It's too small. Why can't we look? The lung of a chicken when you pull it out, you want to inflate it to see if the air escapes through the hole like you do to an animal's lung. It's too tiny. By the time you pull it out, no matter how careful you are, you'll have caused many holes and the air will just go straight out through the lung. You can't inflate the lung of the chicken. I heard that some people have the tradition that they cut off the bottom of the chicken, they submerge the whole chicken underwater, and they blow through the ka and see if air bubbles come out. Okay. Perhaps not. Is that an acceptable way to check the chickens or perhaps I I've tried to do it myself and I didn't succeed. But I guess when somebody practices it well, he probably could. The bone closest to the body, which is really the shoulder equivalent. If it's cracked and the chicken is constantly fluttering its wing back and forth, that broken cracked bone might have a sharp point in it and pierce the outer skin and a little bit of muscle that protects the lung and go straight and cause a po puncture in the lung. Okay. In the house, there's not going to be the corner to check that. No, we're not going to check anything. All we have to see is if there's a crack in the shoulder. Once there's a crack in the shoulder, that's a sofa. That's one of the cases which we call it. It's nishaf. Is there any way that a housewife would be able to or rub after seeing the chicken after it's processed? Absolutely. There you could tell in one second if you're experienced whether that crack happened before the how by getting experience. There's one opinion that says within an espa from the body and what we say is that uh we're not make with that any crack. And how about if one of these are bugs? No way. This is no there's no traers here at all. And how about if it was completely broken? Still no problem. No problem. This was chopped off completely. You know, you clip the wings of a bird like they do to the beautiful swans that are in frustr. You clip the wings at the edge. That bird will never fly again. But uh it still is not a t. It could live for many years. And what if one of the ribs was cracked? Are we worried that the cracked rib also punctured the uh lungs? Perhaps, but there's no such thing. We never see a that's cracked. And if if there is, the chicken will be dead by then. It's pointing inward. It's pointing inward and bud. But but what the housewife has to look for is to see if the uppermost bone is cracked. It's it's unusual because it would hardly ever pass the inspection of the mashkish standing on line in the chicken plant. But uh it's just important to know. And uh again for those who want to be educated, they should have the uh Shila of a broken bone taken to the uh have there explained to them what to look for next time and what to be concerned with and to bring to the for this case doesn't have to be done patiently explain to them. That's how people get to learn. And Revie, what if the wing was pulled out of the joint? No, if the wing was pulled out of the joint, so it doesn't matter. It's there's no shuff by a wing, the four ball joints right on the legs over here and the over here and on the other side as well. But it's only the lower extremities that could cause a by not by by a wing here. the wingle never. There are also things that I once took as when I was a youngster a swollen upper most bone to a uh one of the important jabon in Williamsburg. He was sitting at a meeting of Batim and I showed him the uh swollen bone over here and he said it's caution which it is a swollen bone is no problem only a broken bone but I didn't know that was just barely mitzvah and I showed it to the and the said it's kosher so the balatin so so so I asked him it it shouldn't be a problem of nishbar a broken wing and the uh Balabatam all got up and said, "Didn't you hear what there tell you? Get out of here." So there walked out with me and closed the door behind him and explained to me patiently. He says, "There's no mishaf if it's swollen because if there's no broken bone, it can't make golden." Okay. But you know, you have to learn how to deal with people when you become an adult. that they should know is that many times the wing is completely removed from the body, but the ball is still attached. It's not cracked, but so that's not a problem at all. This is the inside of the bird. You can see the two lungs, the pink stuff, that's they're separate, and they're covered each with their own sheath. One under the right wing and one under the left wing. As I described before, the breathing is by the flexing of the wings. This is a male bird. And uh these two are the male reproductive organs. In a hen, we find uh uh a whole system that produces eggs. And by the way, 99% of the chickens that you'll get from the butcher store. They packed or unpacked, they're they wouldn't have any eggs or reproductive organs. They wouldn't they're not even there because they're shifted so early in the life of the chicken that they're not mature enough to have these things grow yet. This over here you could see one side clearly and the same as you can tell the other side exactly when I hold this down or something. Yeah. Yeah. This your way. This is the kidney. Could you see that? Yep. There's the kidneys. This on top of the kidney is the adrenal gland. They both together look the same and they're called the kidney.