oh I think after all of that and all he has been through I'd had to let him live. lol Very determined roo indeed! WOW and he already attacked you at THAT age? He must have been maturing earlier than most huh?BUD, the unchicken, truly became an unchicken this morning, folks. You'd have been proud of him...he really had me going!I had trussed his legs along with all the others the night before and laid him in a deep bed of leaves on the coop floor. This morning, no BUD. I looked everywhere and couldn't find BUD. Finally, about 10 yds away from the coop, I spotted him...he blends so perfectly with the leaves on the ground that he was well camouflaged. I thought he had truly just disappeared into the spirit realm, from whence he had come.
He also was very stubborn about leaving this world. He had to hop out of the pop door, move clear around the coop from out of a tunnel of hay bales and hop around the corner of the coop and then hit the straight away down a grade. BUD, you will be remembered.....![]()
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I was very impressed with how much meat he had put on and how tender that meat was. I think he would have finished out as a very large rooster if left to develop as I think he was probably about 3-4 mo. old and that large already. His testicles were not even bean size, so might have been even younger than I thought. I'll post later on his processed wt compared to the older hens processed today.