Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
[Re: west river rogue]
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10/03/20 11:40 AM
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Roosters are plenty good eating Jeff.....killed hundreds. X2,,, used to do up 150 Rhode Island Red roosters every year.Darn good eating.Hens were saved for egg laying.
the wheels of the gods turn very slowly
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
[Re: KeithC]
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10/03/20 12:12 PM
10/03/20 12:12 PM
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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 foul, 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 Still laughing about the tranny rooster
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
[Re: upstateNY]
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10/03/20 12:39 PM
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Roosters are plenty good eating Jeff.....killed hundreds. X2,,, used to do up 150 Rhode Island Red roosters every year.Darn good eating.Hens were saved for egg laying. Year and a half old ones?
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
[Re: hippie]
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10/03/20 12:54 PM
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Year and a half old ones?
I used to sell hatching eggs of pure bred chickens and needed to see which roosters looked the best before butchering the extras. I would usually butcher them at 1 year old. They were either used for soups or stews or canned.
~~Proud Ultra MAGA~~
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Re: Rooster Had a Heart Attack
[Re: Lugnut]
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10/03/20 01:03 PM
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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.
Cold as ice!
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