Cooking roosters

[Isadora]

How do you do the slaughtering?

Upside down in a kill cone and sever an artery with a sharp knife.

 

[CNJ]

Has anyone butchered a rooster and cooked immediately? Or does resting really make that much difference?

I just did that with my big 2 year old rooster. I quartered it, seasoned it with garlic salt, placed it in a deep aluminum tray and covered it with tin foil. I slow cooked it in my Breville Smart Oven for 8 hours. I stripped the meat off the bone with a fork and put in a dash of liquid smoke. It taste exactly like Hawaiian pit covered kalua pig.