Well...processed Fat Cochin today. Never saw a bird take so long to die...ever. It was a good cut and he bled out to the last drop...and was still alive, blinking, breathing, trying. Then, another first, when I removed his breast filets they were still jumping and moving in my hands, like frog legs. I've had or seen slight twitches in the meat before on a fresh kill but not to the degree of this. All I can say is that bird was a fighter....all the way, even until after death, his body was protesting the passing.
Really fooled me, this fancy pants sissy bird, that turned out to be pretty darn tough in the face of a larger, heavier rooster, kept his flock, had learned how to forage and watch for preds, etc. Even died like a champ and a fighter....Rest In Soup, Fat Cochin!
