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Amos-Moses
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So after 16 weeks the meat toughens up?slaughter at like 16 at the most weeks or only good for stew
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So after 16 weeks the meat toughens up?slaughter at like 16 at the most weeks or only good for stew
...Any attempt at housing large numbers of mature roosters together is likely to end much the same as the illegal activities that you fear them being used for...
Thank you so much for this post. You explained the bait chicken myth very well. It has always irritated me that people think this about what happens to extra roosters. I mean, really? Why do people's minds automatically go to the worst possible place? I could rant on and on regarding this subject, but to put it bluntly-- nobody wants your worthless little fluffy butt rooster for 'bait'. Dinner, maybe.As a gamefowl fancier, I have done a lot of research into gamefowl, the people that have kept gamefowl, and the history of gamefowl, including their original purposes. The concept of a "bait rooster" is erroneous, bordering on myth. Think of it from a logical perspective. What you are suggesting would be like going to a preschool or nursing home to pick up sparring partners for a heavyweight boxer. Sell your extra cockerels, if what you view as seedy looking foreigners buy them, it is most likely that they are intending to slaughter them for food. If they do possess gamefowl, either as a reminder of their homelands, for the birds superior pet qualities (having been bred for ease of human handling for thousands of years, unlike most of the degenerate breeds gracing the hatchery catalogs), or if they keep them for nefarious reasons, they have little need or interest in your barnyard bred birds for anything outside of their protein contribution. They certainly are not needed to cause roosters to do what comes quite naturally to all breeds of rooster. Any attempt at housing large numbers of mature roosters together is likely to end much the same as the illegal activities that you fear them being used for.
...to put it bluntly-- nobody wants your worthless little fluffy butt rooster...
I didn't realize that my ignorance would offend so many people, my apologies for passing on hear-say. I am more than happy to be corrected, but do you really have to insult my roosters?
I would argue that a dual-purpose breed rooster has more inherent worth than a gamefowl rooster. I understand that worth is subjective but meat, hen management/protection, and the ability to produce good egg laying offspring seems inherently valuable to an agrarian society. Perhaps I do not know enough about gamefowl, but I don't see their inherent worth. I think they are absolutely beautiful and it breaks my heart that so many breeds are in danger of extinction since cock-fighting has been outlawed, but I personally don't see how they contribute very much to society.
I have heard that if roosters are kept away from hens, then they will have less to compete for and thus are less likely to fight. I've been told that some rooster-only flocks can be quite civil. What is your opinion on this, am I being naive?....