- May 8, 2008
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This is the 7th year that I have raised Cornish rock x for meat.. I would have never believed this.. I was outside checking out my flock to choose three for tomarrow morning processing.. As I was looking around one of my large roosters sneezed so hard he fell backward and knocked his head on the side of the house and died.. I walked over and picked him up and he was stiff as a board.. I carried him over to the back door and than he started doing the death stuff.. In all the years I have raised these cornish x i have never seen this happen.. I think he either broke his neck against the house when he sneezed and fell back ward or he had a heart attack.. If I wasnt there to see it.. I would have yelled at my dog, thinking somehow he killed the bird.. gosh darn it ,, maybe he read my mind and knew he was going to be processed tomarrow and just died of fright!!!.. My 90yr old mother is now staying with me, and the last six birds I cleaned were nice looking birds.. We cooked two of them for the family this past weekend and my mother surprised me by refusing to eat the bird.. saying she just couldnt eat the poor thing since she saw them when they were babies.. well after the rooster died today.. she said.. you better hurry up and do the rest of them or they all will end up dead.. Surprise, Surpise,, I have been trying to tell her that these birds have a purpose in life.. and thats more than most people can say about thier lives.. I let my birds run all over the yard,, they take thier little dust baths.. and leave huge piles were ever they please.. I feed them chick starter and cracked corn at this stage.. more cracked corn than baby food.. but they love thier baby food.. I enjoy eating them because I know they had a good life.. they were happy and they got to enjoy thier short time here.. Has anyone ever seen a meat chicken sneeze and accidently kill itself?? I would have never believed it..
