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  1. Hummingbird Hollow

    Rooster giving hens bald heads *Update- roo taken care of*

    I would agree that throwing a live rooster to the dogs would be animal abuse as well as giving the "thumbs up" to chicken killing. Feeding a dead one to the dogs would not be animal abuse. I'd probably want to make it look less like a live rooster before I fed it to the dogs, but I'd probably...
  2. Hummingbird Hollow

    Rooster giving hens bald heads *Update- roo taken care of*

    Pretty much the same way I've done it when I only have one to do, except the killing was done in the garage and I carried the big soup stock pot outside from the kitchen to the garage to do the scalding. Not a huge amount of set up or clean up necessary for just one.
  3. Hummingbird Hollow

    Rooster giving hens bald heads *Update- roo taken care of*

    I know the feeling. Mine was a very handsome fellow, but he was a brute to my hens. I've read about roosters doing this funny dance for his hens and having them squat to be mounted. He'd just chace my hens around the run and hold them down. It looked like chicken rape to me. Anyway, when I...
  4. Hummingbird Hollow

    Rooster giving hens bald heads *Update- roo taken care of*

    I butchered my rooster last year because he was such a bully to my hens. Not only was one developing a bald spot on her back, when I examined her closely, I realized that his claws had gouged big bleeding scratches on her sides, poor girl. Plus egg production was down for all my hens because...
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