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The Meat We Eat - Part 7: Common Treifos in Chickens

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When we sh chickens, there's two or three common trace we look for. The Ram says we don't have to check the lungs of a chicken. And that certainly was true back then. But with the advent of Newcastle disease, which affects the lungs, they have to check the lungs of the chickens. Initi where Newcastle disease has arrived. They do check the lungs of chickens. In the United States, we don't have Newcastle disease. So we do not check the lungs of chickens, but we do check the lungs of turkeys. Another thing that we have accustomed to check is the meccal diverticulum which sits right at the middle of the small intestine of the chicken. Especially when we have young chickens. This is where the yolk fed the animal and there's usually still a connection there. Sometimes there could be a hole and it could food can get stuck in there and the animal can get infected and it would be busier flesh that a doctor would scrape away because it's bad and that we consider as if it's not there because it's about to make a hole or it has a hole already and we make that non-coosher. And the third traer that we look for commonly is there's a real virus that's actually become like a worldwide epidemic in chickens that affect it's tumisageden. Tumisagen is the intersection of all the 16 different tendons at behind the knee of a chicken and we check those tsumagid to see whether or not these chickens are kosher or non-coosher. If there's a reus if there's something that makes us look there's a problem in any of these things the Ram holds that it's something Ram writes in many places that we don't feel so expert in figuring these things out and if there is a reasa we call these chickens non-coosher