Rooster pecked woman to death in 'rare' attack, report says

Fox News ^ | 9/4/19 | Alexandra Hein

[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.

[Hot Tabasco]

The spurs on a rooster can be two inches long and very sharp.

Is that why people host chicken fights?....or whatever they're called?

[Jamestown1630]

Roosters are bad, no way around it. But if you want to ‘grow’ chicks, you have to have one, and learn rooster management and self-defense ;-)

My uncle had a bull. I wasn’t allowed anywhere near it.

[Jamestown1630]

Yes. Second to dog fighting, one of the nastiest ‘sports’ the unwholesome mind of man has come up with.

[j.havenfarm]

Is there nothing in Australia that doesn’t want to kill people?

[Pontiac]

In Cock fights they often attach custom made blades to the rooster’s spurs.

[Pontiac]

If one chicken in the flock gets a sore the other chickens will peck at the sore until the chicken with the sore dies.

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve seen crows exhibit similar behavior - not necessarily in response to sores, per se; but they will go against another crow who has apparently done something socially ‘incorrect’, or exhibited weakness; or is a foreigner who has wandered into their territory without ‘fitting in’.

The cries of the accused one being assaulted in this way are pitiful.

I have always loved birds; but they can be very ‘vicious’ by civilized human lights.

[DannyTN]

Have fun. I believe I canoed down the Buffalo once.

[polymuser]

The Birds 1963

[Jamestown1630]

One of my favorite movies - fun to watch, while having the benefit of knowing that birds never act like that :-)

[Kickaha]

“Do chickens have huge talons?”

[Clutch Martin]

Turkey Farmers wear safety glasses, because turkeys have the ability to pluck out your eyeball in a flash they know exactly what to strike. I’ve also heard ostriches and emus who do much the same thing however an ostrich or emu also has formidable talons and they can rip you up pretty badly.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

same thing however an ostrich or emu also has formidable talons and they can rip you up pretty badly.

I know this emu is killing me. Make it go away.