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To: CottonBall

Yeah, most folks only keep one rooster, if they are like us they butcher them for meat. That’s DH’s job... he does it the hard way - chases them with a .22, lol. He skins them so we don’t have to pluck them. It sounds horrible, but it really isn’t as bad as I thought. I know my birds have had a good life and got to run around on an acre and do chickeny things and I feel better about it than buying chickens at a grocer. We do buy chicken from a local farmer too, and his chickens are raised like ours so I know they are happy birds.


3,419 posted on 03/11/2021 8:09:16 AM PST by LilFarmer ( )
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To: LilFarmer

We used to grab them and break their neck.


3,448 posted on 03/11/2021 8:50:46 AM PST by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: LilFarmer

I feel the same way. The cows around here live in paradise. I’d much rather they have a nice life, then have it end humanely than have them suffer. I hated driving by the hot CA feedlots.


3,488 posted on 03/11/2021 10:11:13 AM PST by CottonBall (MAKE REPUBLICANS WHIGS AGAIN!)
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To: LilFarmer

“..chases them with a .22..”

Are you talking a 22 rifle? I don’t really know anything about guns but if he kills the roosters that way wouldn’t it leave a lot of buckshot in them?


3,536 posted on 03/11/2021 2:29:55 PM PST by Spunky
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