Chicken bits as food?

[d_virginiana]

My husband recently got a job working stock in various Food Lions. So, I immediately thought of posts I had seen on here about people getting spare chicken or turkey bits from butchers and feeding them to their snakes. With Thanksgiving coming up, I imagine the butcher departments will have a lot of extra parts they are willing to give away.

So, if you've done this before, what pieces are acceptable to feed? Do these chicken parts need to be frozen for any particular length of time before feeding? Also, is this something I can feed every other week if they like it, like I would pinkies? I don't like to feed the same meat two weeks in a row; they seem to appreciate their proteins more when I switch them up

I've had a couple pieces of heating/aquarium equipment crap out and need replacing recently, so anything that makes feeding my babies more budget-friendly is something I want to jump on immediately.

[guidofatherof5]

I will be purchasing bulk turkey heart over the next few weeks. Most of my garter love them. I'm fortunate where I buy them, they are cleaned and ready for me to feed. No need to cut off the veins or prep them.

[d_virginiana]

Would livers or gizzards be okay to feed as well? I'm guessing whatever is good to feed from a turkey would also be okay from a chicken
Unfortunately I'm thinking whatever I get won't be pre-cleaned. I've almost never seen organ meat for sale around here, so I'm thinking that they probably just end up getting scrapped; good for price, annoying since it would mean I have to clean them myself. Never thought this would be how I used what I learned in my dissection labs.

[guidofatherof5]

Many of my snakes also enjoy the liver. Gizzards are a pain to work with.

[MCwyo]

Steve how often to you feed hearts and livers? As a special treat, or more as a part of their diet?

[guidofatherof5]

I used them as a meal every other week. The snakes wish it was more.

[d_virginiana]

Sounds like my snakes will be getting a lot of chicken heart and liver.

[SilasBannook]

Love the timely post. I hadn't thought of feeding my guys turkey hearts but will definitely do so now.

[ProXimuS]

Can the hearts/livers be frozen?

[kueluck]

Eww......hearts maybe, but liver?? Since the liver is a filter organ isn't there a risk of who knows what??