Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
[Re: yukonjeff]
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i routinely kill and eat roosters that become more of a pain-in-the-arse than they are worth. Also, older hens that slow down or stop egg production. Prepared properly, all are good eating.
Chickens that die on their own are tossed on the bone pile for the fox and other critters to eat.
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
[Re: yukonjeff]
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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 ? Pretty tough bird, ma would scald, skin, and pressure cook that bird and take the meat off the bones and can it. Or stew it. She canned all the large old hens.
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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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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Roosters are plenty good eating Jeff.....killed hundreds. This^ Make soup or pressure cook it if your worried about it being tough
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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I recently processed 14, 4 month old young roos. A buddy of mine cooked up 2 of them. Tastes great.
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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I'm new to the chickens and rooster thing. I have a 6 or 8 month old rooster. How much behaviour correction or modification can you expect to get with a rooster. I'm beginning to think pretty much nil. Crock pot cures bad behavior
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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I'm new to the chickens and rooster thing. I have a 6 or 8 month old rooster. How much behaviour correction or modification can you expect to get with a rooster. I'm beginning to think pretty much nil. i don't think you can change them. We had one that was truly evil. We had sticks sitting at strategic locations all over the place so we could defend ourselves from his attacks. You could beat that thing half to death and he'd still keep attacking. The wife liked to hear him crow so we couldn't kill him, no hits in the head allowed. One winter evening my youngest came in and said she thinks she killed the rooster. He was attacking and she inadvertently (or not) hit him in the head. I went out and saw him lying in a heap, told my daughter we'd butcher him after supper. Went out after eating and the "dead" rooster was standing at the foot of the deck stairs doing that nasty growl he did when he was ready to attack. It kinda made the hairs on my neck stand up. Apparently my daughter had only knocked him out. She didn't knock any sense into him though. A few months later it attacked my son-in-law and spurred him in the face. That was it''s death sentence. It had attacked me and my three daughters multiple times and had gotten a reprieve but one attack on the SIL and the wife says, "kill it." I said, "I see how it is." LOL I was dead a few minutes later. We ate it a few nights later. On the other hand, I've also had very docile roosters.
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
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