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Offlineclepto4peace
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    #5922237 - 08/01/06 03:31 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I just found my first Chicken mushroom!!! I made it my mission of the summer and it was so awesome. the people I was with did not get the significance and thought i was a bit odd, but that did not dim my excitment. I am having trouble posting the pictures, but wanted to share. It was very easy to ID and cook. I a bit a few hours ago and feel fine, helping myself to another serving. Oh and i think the find was good luck because i went on to catch ablow fish later that day, which is known to taste quite similar to chicken (coincidence?). I recommend finding and eating some! 

good luck hunting :smile:


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Re: chicken [Re: clepto4peace]
    #5922239 - 08/01/06 03:32 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Nice avatar :grin:


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Re: chicken [Re: ivi]
    #5922429 - 08/01/06 04:47 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Cool to see someone go hunting for something not mainstream (chantys , morels ect) and be successful.

I been getting my hopes up for finding a garlic mushroom for acouple years now with no victory.


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Re: chicken [Re: clepto4peace]
    #5922505 - 08/01/06 05:20 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Congratulations clepto4peace :smile2:


I remember my first chicken mushroom find. I was looking for Gymnopilus spectabilis and was disappointed to find that the orange mushroom I climbed through brush to investigate was something else. After reading that it was edible I took it home and fried it up. Tasted like chicken.  :grin:

That chicken mushroom was my first edible find that I actually ate.


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Re: chicken [Re: clepto4peace]
    #5922510 - 08/01/06 05:21 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

That's cool. I'm a big fan of chicken of the woods too. I pick and eat tons of them almost every year. I have had some massive chicken finds in the past.
One year I found so many under a single huge tree that I couldn't carry them all back, even after stuffing a box and 4 shopping bags full lol.

In my gallery are some pics of some of the finds somewhere.

I agree that your avatar is awesome.. a chicken, with chicken of the woods instead of feathers. :biggrin:


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Re: chicken [Re: eris]
    #5922854 - 08/01/06 07:07 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

A bit of controversy has been surrounding this mushroom and it's lack of edibility when plucked from the bark of a conifer, and/or locust trees.

Great find..one of my favorite mushrooms, though I've yet to consume the ones that I found. Probably one of the most beautiful too!

Easy to ID, but IDing the tree it grows on is allegedly just as crucial, according to MY sources. If this turns out to be true, I think it needs to be removed from the "foolproof four" for sure.


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Re: chicken [Re: Timberdoodler]
    #5922973 - 08/01/06 07:54 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Hey man what's this foolproof four?  I haven't seen this before... maybe i'm just  :crazy2:  Also, do you know when they'll start sprouting around here?  I'm itchin to eat some  :cool:


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Re: chicken [Re: Silver94]
    #5922993 - 08/01/06 08:00 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Probably very soon, if not already. Just keep an eye out.

I've seen them in the middle of summer to fall the most.


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Re: chicken [Re: Silver94]
    #5923002 - 08/01/06 08:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

The fpf is basically a group consisting of the four unmistakable edibles:

  • - Morels
  • - Sulphur Shelf (chicken mushroom)
  • - Giant Puffball
  • - Chanterelle

    I found a chicken mushroom the other day. :smile:


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    Re: chicken [Re: Timberdoodler]
        #5923013 - 08/01/06 08:07 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

    The tree is not even that important in my experience. Around here they grow around multiple types of deciduous trees. I'm not sure about picking them around conifers though. All of the ones I find are around deciduous.

    Keep in mind that there are yellow pore and white pore chickens.. I don't like the yellow pored one nearly as much. The texture and flavor of the white pored chickens seem to be better to me. Either way there is a noticeable difference.

    Another difference between the two is the part of the tree that they often grow on. The white pore one is often found at the base of living trees.
    The yellow pore ones often grow straight from logs. This also might have something to do with the flavor variance.

    Check out the chart on Tom Volks page.
    http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/jul2001.html


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    Re: chicken [Re: eris]
        #5923057 - 08/01/06 08:21 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

    In this region, most of the chickens I've found grow on oaks. But I've found two seperate reference that warn against those growing on hemlock, and locust.

    I'd rather not test and find out.


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    Re: chicken [Re: Timberdoodler]
        #5923241 - 08/01/06 09:20 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

    There are also false morels, which are poisonous. Would this make a morel "mistakable"?


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    Re: chicken [Re: psiclops]
        #5923504 - 08/01/06 10:29 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

    Well that would depend on the creators definition of "fool proof".

  • - does "fool proof" just mean, easy to ID?
  • - or does it mean fool proof edibles?

    False morels don't look very much like morels, so I would consider the morel foolproof. Visually you would just have to be foolish to mistake one for the other. But when the mushroom at hand (chicken of the woods) can be deadly depending on what it GROWS on, then things get weird because then it becomes more than simply IDing a mushroom. That means that just because it's easy to ID doesn't make it foolproof! That also means that just because it's a sulphur shelf, doesn't mean you should eat it!

    Sure, anyone can ID a sulphur shelf...but are they all foolproof enough to eat? Appearantly, not if you don't also know your trees.

    Perhaps Old Man of the Woods would be more deserving?


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