Posted on 09/04/2019 12:36:28 PM PDT by Pontiac
On the heels of a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about backyard chickens spreading illness to people in 49 states comes a harrowing tale about a woman who was killed by a rooster that delivered a lethal strike to a varicose vein in her leg.
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I have had the red and it was not half bad for an inexpensive wine.
That is just weird
It hit a varicose vein, and per the article I read, cause of death was blood loss. Most people don’t have varicose veins on their upper bodies, so I think it’s more likely a leg. The article also says she was elderly and the puncture “bled profusely”, hence the speculation about blood thinners and cognitive issues. Direct pressure on a varicose will stop bleeding, but if you’re not “all there” you might not remember to do that.
LOL, one of my all-time favorite MWC scenes.
Poor kitteh, picked the wrong chicken for pickin on.
Perfect!!!!!
Hey man, next week gonna a do a 2-day float down the Buffalo River fishing trip on fishing kayaks. Really looking forward to it. I live in North Alabama, but did part of my growing up not far from there.
My idea was tha knocking her to the ground rendered her immobile thus leaving her more vulnerable to the attack on her legs.
Even an attack that started on the legs could knock down a person unsteady on their feet however.
But an elderly lady knocked down would likely have a hard time getting up again and may not have the muscle tone necessary to reach a leg wound from a prone position.
If she could not sit up she would have difficulty defending her self from attack on her legs by the rooster.
Lack of strength is all that is necessary to make this attack likely fatal. I don’t see cognitive impairment as being relevant. It could be involved but I don’t see it as necessary to the equation.
As a toddler I was given a pet chick from a friend of the family.
It grew into a mean rooster that liked to peck a mole on my arm.
One day he chased me clear around the house a couple of times.
My dad heard me screaming, came outside, and saw what was happening. He asked me if I wanted him to shoot it which I replied I did.
To my horror he got his .22 and dispatched the bird. There was some more crying on my part, but strangely enough a couple of days later we had a delicious fried chicken dinner.
Cats have dignity.
A pitching wedge is handy for handling small critters
Just how big was her cock?
He could cook too?
It’s nature for chickens and a lot of other birds to ‘peck’ - (I don’t know about chickens - they may come into the world pecking - but when you hand-raise a lot of wild birds, they have to learn pecking from you, as they would from Mother Bird.)
Birds peck at things that they think might be food.
My cats are terrified of my pet pigeons. I’d hate to see what would happen with a rooster :-)
My mother was born and raised on a farm during the Depression, and they had chickens. Among those chickens was a “fighty” rooster. One day, the rooster went after my mother’s older sister (he had gone after her before), so my aunt picked up a rock and killed it. My grandmother was not happy, as she had just butchered a chicken for their dinner.
Not much reason to have backyard roosters.
We were just in Key West last Sunday and there were DOZENS and DOZENS of loose Roosters....No comment about -——.....I was wondering if they would PECK people.
When my mom was a little girl at her grandparents farm, a rooster jumped up on her shoulder and started pecking at her face. Her grandfather grabbed the bird and wrung it’s head off on the spot, leaving it flapping and bleeding headless in the dirt. My mother was so traumatized by the whole thing she’s had a phobia of birds for the following 70-some years.
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