Roosters are plenty good eating Jeff.....killed hundreds.

good trapping bait for sure

He must have been pretty special to you for you to clean him up like that after his death flop in wet mud.

Sorry for your loss.

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.

we use too have a rooster every Sunday , grandma would make chicken an dumplings, always good an tender . she would cook it all day

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.

When I was a little kid, like 3 or 4 yrs. old, my grandma"s big white rooster beat the (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) out of me! That following Sunday, we had chicken and dumplings for dinner. He was delicious!

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'm with JP on this one.

Don't get mad at your dog if he won't even eat it Jeff !!! LOL

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Make soup or pressure cook it if your worried about it being tough

You can stew anything....

I recently processed 14, 4 month old young roos. A buddy of mine cooked up 2 of them. Tastes great.

wife and I butchered 60 roosters a yr along with 6 turkeys and ducks. Ate every one!!!

Crock pot cures bad behavior

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.

Theres an old joke about buzzards that comes to mind

If I remember that rooster had been plucked clean by the farmer for a previous offense.

Sorry for your loss....

At least he died doing what he loved......!

Pete

Coyote bait.