Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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10/02/20 11:01 PM
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So I let my chickens out this morning and they all come running and flapping out like they do every morning. The Buff Orpington rooster takes off chasing one of the hens, and as I was watching it stopped mid stride and laid down on the road and started flapping like he was taking a dust bath but it was wet mud. I walked up and he was taking his last gasp, then no more. It had to have been a heart attack. Has anyone ever heard of this before ? He was a big fellow about a year and a half old. Luckily I hatched some chicks and have a young rooster that stepped right up to the job. I was also wondering can a rooster be eaten ? and if not why ? and what age do they need to be to get a good eating bird? Thanks
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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10/02/20 11:04 PM
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I dont know about the heart attack,maybe do an autopsy on it(check the innards),and if its clean(no obvious disease) make a stew.
Last edited by Boco; 10/02/20 11:05 PM.
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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He's playing possum trying to get the hens to crowd around him.
Moosetrot That's what I thought at first. He always tried to trick the hens into thinking he found food so they would come close for him for the dirty deed.... Not really exited to eat him ,but wondering if he would be good, I might, I have others that are about of age too.
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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most people raise Cockrells for meat...so Yes. This is no spring chicken. Its a year and a half old, does it matter ?
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
[Re: yukonjeff]
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I butchered 4 roosters once and ate a couple bites of one. Nasty! They look nasty and taste nasty. Never again. Roosters walk my yard now. If they die, they die.
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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Theres an old joke about buzzards that comes to mind In my 'Cowboy Poetry writing days' I wrote a poem about "Brewster the Rooster" that describes that very event. Charlie
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
[Re: yukonjeff]
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Thanks that settles that lol
Was it tough or gamey ? It was like rubber. And before we cooked it the body reminded me of those yellow rubber chickens you see once in awhile sitting in a store or something. Hardly had any breast meat on it.
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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10/03/20 12:08 AM
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I butchered a rooster once..... the horor that was the toughest, thickest, nastiest skin I’ve ever seen on Gods green earth! Yet I still cooked it... tastedlike it looked
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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What Jurassic I guess is talking about is that adult layer breed roosters don't look like cornish cross meat birds. As he said, compared to a cornish cross grocery store chicken, there is very little meat on them. About like comparing a wild turkey to a 20lb thanksgiving bird. And yes, if you don't slow or pressure cook them, they will be tough.. just like a 4 year old squirrel lol. Make them into soup or stew, or pressure cook them and they actually have better flavor than store bought birds though!
That said.... I don't like eating anything that I don't know what it died of.
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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I have seen 2 roosters and 1 transsexual rooster die of apparent heart attacks. The first two were cornish rock crosses around 8 months old and a year old. Both rolled over on their backs with their legs more or less straight up and turned blue. The third looked like a brahma hen and likely laid eggs and then at around 18 months old it started to look like a rooster. I saw it jump up on a bunk of wood, crow and fall over dead. It was the first and only time I saw it crow.
Old hens and roosters have more flavor. Most Asian, African, Hispanic and Middle Eastern immigrants greatly prefer the flavor of old fowl, especially old roosters.
I like the flavor of old roosters. They are good when cooked slow, with lots of water and become very tender. They make good chicken and noodles. Since I can sell old roosters for 5 or 6 times what I can buy a processed chicken for, I usually sell them and buy the chicken I eat instead.
Now is a great time to buy old hens. Most of the big free range egg farms are dumping their old birds. You can get them for 25 cents each if you buy thousands. They are $2.00 each in smaller numbers. I just killed 100 tonight and they weighed 4.34 pounds on average, live weight. They'll end up as pet food.
Keith
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