Do you eat year old roosters?
Old ones are good in gumbo.
We have used some roosters for meat, but I can’t say if I’ve had one. We do get some roosters with our laying hens now and then, and we’ll keep them as they can help keep the girls in line.
I don’t remember the roosters being any worse, but by the time it got to my plate, I didn’t know which was a rooster or a hen.
We quit using the laying breeds for meat as there’s just not enough meat and the meat is just not as good from the laying breeds to make it worth the trouble, so we don’t any more.
I suppose the age of the birds could have something to do with the meat not being as good. We keep our layers for two years before rotating them out, so I’ve only had layers that old.
So now we only eat the broilers, which have to be slaughtered at 8 - 12 weeks. I’ve never had a 12 week old layer to compare the flavor.